So I joined a Book Club….

I generally hate those cards that the stores give out.  You know the ones they give out at CVS, Walbaums, St0p and Shop and Blockbuster!  Every time I get a card, and it seems lately that I get one all the time, I end up shoving them in my wallet and then loosing them because my wallet is so stuffed up with membership cards.

I have more membership cards in my wallet than I do pictures of my kids!  Even the nail place gives me membership cards.  “If you buy 10 manicures, you get one free,” the nail technician says to me.

Okay, so now I have “fifty million of these cards” and I never have them when I need them.  About a month ago, I was in Barnes & Noble looking for a book for my son.  He demanded that I come home with this particular book or else he wasn’t going to school!  (BTW, I never liked getting yelled out so I totally understood!)

When I got there, the woman behind the counter talked me into getting a membership card.  However, this one wasn’t free.  “You know, you’ll make it up after your fifth book and anyway, you’ll save money on every book you buy no matter what,” she said.

A bargain, I thought.  Okay, I’ll get it.  So I dished out $25 to get this membership card so that I can get discounts on all the books I purchase there.

Before this card, I hardly ever went to Barnes & Noble.  I would purchase books on line via Amazon.  But now, I have the Barnes & Noble card, so I’m going to purchase as many books as I can to get that discount!

If you ask anyone, including my daughter, they will tell you that the only books I read are business books – marketing books, leadership books, management books, recruitment books and so on.  So, when Lori Alexy, my supervisor of event planning at HJMT COMMUNICATIONS, LLC, recommended, “Eat Pray Love,” written by Elizabeth Gilbert to me I smirked.  I don’t read those kinds of books, I said.  “Read it, you’ll really love it,” she said.

Now, I’m totally entrenched in the book.  I read about Liz’s trials and tribulations in her bad marriage and her breakup with her boyfriend.  I read about her time in Italy where the food was fabulous and she gained a ton of weight while learning the Italian Language. (BTW, my son wants to take Italian in school instead of Spanish.  Personally, I think Spanish is a bit more useful but he wants to go to Italy and converse with the citizens there.)

Then I read about her spiritual awaking in India, which I was thinking would be a cool thing to do for me!  Yoga and prayer eight hours a day with very little contact to the outside world could be just the very thing I need!

And now, she’s in Indonesia with her medicine man friend.  I still have about a 100 pages to go but I’m really enjoying this book.  So Kudos Elizabeth Gilbert for hitting the “nail in the head” and touching people like me who only think about work and read only business books….