This was my first book group, and I think it was a great experience for me. I enjoyed every minute of this assignment. When Dr. McNeal was giving out numbers for our class to decide what group we were going to be in, I was hoping that I would like my group and I did. I benefited from having a book group in many different ways. I made new friends and I learned to like to read. Before I have this class I definitely thought that reading was a waste of time. When I saw on the syllabus that we had to choose a novel and write two papers on it I thought I was just going to find a book that had a movie to go along with it and go from there. I was wrong. Our group actually made the mistake in thinking that we had to read two books and do a paper on each one of them. I look at this as not a bad thing but very positive. I got to read two of the best books I have ever read by an awesome author. The two books that we chose was The Notebook and A Walk to Remember, both by Nicolas Sparks. If we didn't make the error in reading two books I would have never thought about A Walk to Remember, which was a remarkable novel. The book group assignment enhanced my enjoyment for reading. I am currently reading another one of Nicolas Sparks' novels when I have spare time.
             Ryan: I new Ryan because we are good friends from my freshman year so I was really glad to see her in my group, it made me more comfortable with the other members. Ryan is from Bridgeville, PA and she majors in Elementary/Special Education. Ryan actually gave the idea to read The Notebook. She said "I saw it on Oprah's book group website and thought that we should read it since we are five girls who can read love stories." Ryan is basically the "discusser", or the initiator for the discussions we had. She is very talkative and always has something to say, even if it has nothing to do with our novels we read.
             Katie: Katie was the...