5-0....5-0

i yell that whenever we drive past a police car.
it drives my 5 year old crazy.

but this actually refers to my book club's 50th book.
ghostwritten.
by david mitchell

we finished and discussed this past friday.
i was 20 pages from the end but thoroughly enjoyed the discussion....even though the book did not lend itself to too much discussion. that being said, it was a divisive books. some really didn't like it and called this first novel attempt annoying while trying too hard; some thought it rather innovating and interesting.

i was somewhere in the middle. it was like nine short stories that somehow intersect and while not completely coming together at the end all circle around interesting thoughts on chance, fate, and the idea of destiny versus random atoms bumping against each other. it was fun to find all the intersection between the stories. but there was some strange stuff as well..... but i agreed with my group that the middle of the book was by far the strongest. the transmigrating ghost chapter and some of the chapters around it were interesting and well-written.

so..... while not the most amazing book for such a watershed moment (6 years, 50 books), i am glad i read it.

i'll post our book list later.... and no, i didn't read all 50 of them!