10.  You’ll re-read the classics from high school and college you suffered through and may now appreciate especially since there are no pop quizzes. Flaubert, Dostoyevsky, Faulkner.

9.   You’ll read Philip Roth and John Updike- men going through male menopause and writing about it.

8.   You’ll be updated on the major book awards- Pulitzer, Nobel Prize for Literature and the Man Booker.

7.   Frequent handouts.

6.   “Traveling books” to borrow, pass on or keep.

5.   Did I mention no pop quizzes, diagramming or outlining?

4.   Side trips to movies, bookstores, restaurants and foreign countries with fellow members.

3.   No matter where you are in the world in the novel, no matter how remote, there will be at least one member who has been there.

2.   Good friends, good food and good discussion.

And the number 1 reason for joining the AAUW book groups:  YOU’LL NEVER RUN OUT OF BOOKMARKS.

“Somewhere over the rainbow there’s a bookstore and lots of chocolate.”

Bookhound