Welcome to the Active Rain Book Club.

With over 117,000 members at the time I founded this Group, I was caught off guard by the fact that there was not an active book club here, so I took it upon myself to start one.

I've been a reader all my life. In fact, when I was in first grade in Brigham City, Utah, I had read all the first grade books in the school library, so the librarians let me loose in the second grade section. By the end of second grade, I was in the sixth grade section, and the fifth and sixth grade teachers were upset because I was checking out too many of the books in those sections. I was banished from the school library. Imagine that, a school banishing you from the library.

That's when I discovered the public library. Now that was a library! It was like going from little Brigham City, Utah, to New York City, New York! I was in Heaven.

I schedule reading each day, typically at least 30 minutes for a book and at least 30 minutes for anything else that is not on the Internet, such as magazines and newspapers.

There are three other people here who will help me moderate this group and make sure that everyone is happy here and gets lots of comments on their blog entries about books:

1. Russel Ray (in my home inspector personna)
2. Jim Frimmer (my Partner who is also a Century 21 Award Realtor and a Manager at Borders Books and Music in National City)
3. Todd Bookspan, whom I had to question about his last name since it just seemed so natural for a Book Club

Please feel free to invite your Active Rain friends to our Book Club, and if you see a blog somewhere about books, not only invite them to our Book Club, but invite them to post their blog over here, too.

Happy Reading!