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Tonight: a book club meeting a my place. We were discussing The Hunger Games. Only one person disliked it; four of us had seen the movie, for comparison; we tended to like the same things. And by the end of the discussion, I think all of us saw more there than we originally had.

In discussion of archetypes in the story, I was struck by parallels to The Iliad, in which the gods play deadly games with mankind in warfare for their own purposes and amusement. Previously, the parallels in my head were more to distopian novels like 1984 and Brave New World, with the reality-tv twist.

At one point Sue asked if anyone of us had ever seen a reality show. I said I'd seen How Do You Solve a Problem Named Maria, which was Andrew Lloyd Webber's vehicle for casting The Sound of Music a few years ago in London. Then again, in Toronto.

We really aren't a typical TV-watching crowd.

Next month: our book is What the Psychic Told the Pilgrim by Jane Christmas.

I went to the first book club meeting of the new book club set up by my friend Lisa. It was their second meeting, but the first was last month, when I was hideously sick with that chest cold.

And I really had a good time. I shouldn't be surprised: I should have expected to like the same people Lisa liked.

We were discussing The Help by Kathryn Stockett. I confessed that before I read it, I was biased because I knew it was a best seller, and I don't often like best sellers, but this was one of those (many) exceptions.

It was fun to see Doreen again.