Mostly Social Book Club

What we do

The Mostly Social Book Club (MSBC) has been in existence since 1992. Sometimes at our meetings, we even discuss books. However, as the name of our book club implies, we are mostly social, and we don’t put too much pressure on ourselves to read books. With that said, in the past couple of years, we’ve really ramped up the reading as you can see by our list. [Read how it all began…]

Our rotation for selecting books is: Suzanne, Sharon, John, Mary.

We read these books before we started keeping track of the dates.

How it all began

We are a group of 4 people who at one time all worked on the “Network Performance Team” at IBM, although we’re all retired now! We started off reading mostly professional development and self-improvement kinds of books, but quickly diverged. Through 2006, we met each week for lunch, and in 2007 changed our meetings to once a month, on the third Sunday of the month. But now that we’re retired, we meet on a weekday—because we can—on the third Monday of the month. During the COVID-19 pandemic years, we continued monthly meetings virtually. [Back to reading list…]