We had the author Wally Lamb as a guest at our book club meeting last year! He even read passages from the book he's currently working on. He was very gracious - there were 12 of us book club members in one member's converted rec. room. He talked a lot about being an author, and answered all of our questions for over 2 hours. He even told us that Drew Barrymore's production company had recently bought the rights to the screenplay version of "She's Come Undone," but he wasn't sure she'd actually follow through and do the movie. Will Smith had been interested in "I Know This Much is True" but eventually passed on the project. It was neat to hear him talking about all these Hollywood people, and to seem as starstruck about them as we all were!