We put quotes around "book club" around here because my family insists that calling it that is just a cover for what it really is: gossiping and drinking.
Like the clever owners of a bar near the University of Texas, who named their bar The Library, helping students tell the truth to their parents when they say they went to The Library six days a week all semester.
Yes, we drink when we have our book club meetings. But we never gossip, not ever.
