june book club + a lesson on sperm

Why am I so bad at this?  I mean the the next Book Club is in seven days and I haven't re-capped the last one?!  Book Club is my reason for still feeling like an adult woman, yet I can't seem to get our thoughts into writing.  I vow to try harder.

Anyways, we read Six Years by Harlan Coben.

It was another mystery/thriller with a lot of names and a lot of places and a lot of confusion.  I really tried to keep up (and even considered writing it all out to see the connections) but decided I was lazy and everything would clean itself up in the end.  Despite some confusion, the book was a very easy read as I was easily able to finish it in a weekend.

Most of us liked it (putting it in the 7-8 range), although we always have the one dork who hated the writing or something stupid and overly critical.  But really, we should all start being overly critical instead of worrying about buffalo dip, wine choices, and when we're going to switch the conversation over to sex.  Or in this meeting's case, sperm.

There's a lot of talk about conceiving babies and how that actually works.  People say certain positions give you boys and if you want a girl just shove grapefruits and oranges down your throat.  As a biologist I'm here to tell you that this is false.  Sorry to bum you out (girl that SWEARS by acidity because you gave birth to a girl like you intended!)  It's a 50/50 chance here peeps.  But here's the real science (according to some scientists), even if you're not interested.

Sperm are not "boys" or "girls."  The egg holds the X chromosome and the sperm hold either an X or a Y chromosome.  The only way a boy or girl is made is when these two merge together:  XX being a female and XY being a male.  Now some scientists claim that sperm bearing a Y chromosome move faster and die quicker, so you should try to conceive as close to ovulation as possible if you want a boy.  And if you want a girl you should try to conceive two to four days prior to ovulation.  That's called the Shettles Method and is claimed to be 75% accurate.  Whatever.  That's too much thinking.

Anyways, we also discussed the following topics (after critically analyzing our book of course):

• Purchasing two wedding dresses.

• Breastfeeding past a year.

• Moving to a big city.

• Baby names (the good, the bad, & the ghetto)

• When Moms go Godzilla on other kids.

• Is the first year of marriage really that hard? 

• Cats that run away and find rich people.

• Cats with leukemia.

Next week we meet up for Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire.  I have neither read nor purchased it yet.  I better get a move on.  Happy reading!!