Here's to an attempt at getting back into the writing spirit...

 Zeitgeist (from German Zeit-time and Geist- spirit) is "the spirit of the times" and/or "the spirit of the age." Zeitgeist is the general cultural, intellectual, ethical, spiritual, and/or political climate within a nation or even specific groups, along with the general ambience, morals, and sociocultural direction or mood of an era (similar to the English word mainstream or trend).
  
WHY?

So, RR and I were catching up on gtalk and discussed the desirability but unviability of J/L's "women who read" initiative. We figured that a book club over e-mail will probably never really work because how do you get say.. 8.. people to read the same book(s) at the same time! So, we figured that blogging just might work! No pressure to read what the group is reading. The only pressure is to write about what you are reading. And let's not pigeonhole ourselves.. write about a movie you saw or an article you read or someone else's blog or even idle gossip.. anything!! Just write. Dammit!