Last year our two oldest children participated in a book club with six other students.  It was a good experience.  They learned to really read a book and to articulate their thoughts about it in a group setting.  It wasn't very difficult for them, but I felt it was a very good academic exercise.  This school year they're in a book club again, but unfortunately, their own mother and another very busy mother are in charge of coming up with the questions for this month's club.  The book?  The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis (do I even need to mention the author?).  I know I have a tendency toward perfectionism, but I am so bothered by the fact that I can't seem to get it together with this assignment.  It is a wonderful book, and very deep. I thoroughly enjoy doing the questions, but I am only on Letter XI and there are something like 32 total letters!  I am procrastinating by sitting here, but maybe now I will be motivated to come back and report that I am finished!!  I think I may need a bit of caffeine to get me through the night to finish!  There is just so much material, it is hard to decide what to include.  We are talking about younger high schoolers (freshmen and sophmores) here, but most rather mature spiritually.  Still, it is overwhelming.  The real problem is time.  And noise.  (Seven children have a way of making sounds now and again.)