Book Club - Look Again!
My book club met on Tuesday night after some small confusion about which house we were going to be meeting in. The woman that was going to host had sick kids, so it had to be moved to another nearby household. I think perhaps this book resonated with most of the other women in the book club more than it did with me, since on average most of them have at least 4 children, and I don’t have any.
A good part of our discussion revolved around the question “What would you do in that situation?” As the author portrayed, it’s a hard, no-win question in this scenario. If your adopted child turned out to have been kidnaped from another family, would you willingly return him? What effect would this have on them later in life? And there is no good answer. (Nor did the book provide one, though it ended happily enough)
Personally I was most relieved to know that it was entirely a work of fiction, and I questioned some of the methods used for proofs in the story..but that’s one reason it’s fiction.
I can’t say that I particularly -enjoyed- the book. It dragged in the beginning quite a bit, and I found it hard to empathize with the main character, but it did provide good fodder for a book club discussion, and for that I am grateful. Too often we end up reading books that are so bland there’s nothing to discuss.
I get to pick next month’s book, so we’re reading Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Neil Gaimon. I wonder what the ladies in the club will think of it.....
