is because the anymore it -- this is a book club that had been in existence, it formed under gretchen rubin who rote the happiness project and the book club has become so popular there are three branches. next week we have the holiday book party, and the people in it are authors and literary critics, people who work within publishing, many of whom don't have children but like children's literature, and for me, one of the things i love about children literature is that these are the books that made us readers, the books that hooked us. there is an emphasis on story and on the sort of themes that touch the human heart in children's literature that will always speak to me. and also enabled me to stay in that world. i have three children, and i used to be the children's book editor at the time before i was -- as my children say, demoted. so that's my book club. >> question for anne patchette. has owning a book store changed you as a writer and if so, how? >> it probably has because i don't have as much time to write. my new book is a book of essays and i know i wrote that book because i had boo

. >> elizabeth bernstein wrote all about it in in her column called "bond" and gretchen rubin who broughtare maximizers and want to look at every single thing, spreadsheets, weigh every option take forever. they make good decisions but they're less happy than the people who are satisfiers and they make quick decisions and they're happy with them and move on. >> can you be a combination of the two? >> absolutely. like i know a guy with a satisfier when he was renting an apartment, he's very easily figured out the apartment he wanted, but when he wanted to buy an apartment, he was a maximizer. >> money is being invested. >> right. he just wanted to find the perfect -- the absolutely best choice and he got analysis paralysis. >> sometimes there are big decisions like that. sometimes lurkyou're looking at a menu and they're like should i get the grilled cheese or -- >> one time. >> it drives you crazy. >> a sandwich. >> how do you work in a relationship where one of you is a maximizer and one of you is less -- >> but why -- you can make quick decisions and make poor decisions. and have to liv