That’s right, even Tony loves Oprah.

And if moving to the city where she works and hitting on Stedman every chance he gets wasn’t enough, now he is starting his own book club. And he is personally inviting you to join in the fun!

All you have to do is e-mail him directly if you know his e-mail, or post your intentions in the comment section below. Then we will all read and write about our selected book (if we feel so inclined). No big timelines, no guiding questions, no real pressure. (Unless of course you want them). The basic premise behind this is simple, Tony believes that every activity one can gain pleasure from alone will be better in a group. (Or rather, that was his belief about masturbation and he’s recycling it here.)

And so, without further ado…Here’s Tony’s first bookclub selection: Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand by Samuel R. Delany.

This is the description from the back of the book:

“Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand is a science fiction masterpiece about the inexplicability of sexual attractiveness, and a story that foresaw the World Wide Web. Originally published in 1984, its central issues–technology, globalization, gender, sexuality, and multiculturalism–have only become more pressing with the passage of time.

The novel’s topic is information itself. What are the repercussions of the discovery, once it has been made public, that two individuals have been found to be each other’s perfect erotic object out to ‘point nine-nine-nine and sevearl nines percent more’? What will it do to the individuals involved, to the city they inhabit, to their geosector, and to their entire world society, especially when one is an illiterate worker, the sole survivor of a world destroyed by ‘cultural fugue,’ and the other is–you!”