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It is a zoom meeting! We look forward to seeing youHey Jason! I just joined - is this a zoom meeting? I haven't done this before, sorry.
Well, as Jason said, a lot the discussion is based around the lessons we learn from these books and how they apply to us. What you didn't like and why is informative.
I thought the book was pretty brilliantly crafted/written. I haven't cried like that in a book for ages. What's interesting for me is that I never would have read it if it weren't in our book club. So thank you book club for opening up my reading and giving me something so unexpected. Love that about this.
I've watched a ton of youtube videos about this book despite disliking it just to figure out what the fuss was about. I heard other opinions about it already and I get where they are coming from, just wholeheartedly disagree.Sadly, I have a thing (art workshop!) starting when this starts, so I won't be able to come. After all that day-shuffling we did. Ugh. Sorry! I will pop on 15 mins early to say hi if anyone is around, before my workshop starts.
@ChantalS I guess in your books I'm crazy, then.
I might have sounded pretty similar to you after reading the first book in book club. haha! And I was also reluctant to come if I didn't like the book. But as Matt said, sharing your opinion and reasons for that, is great. But also I've come away from these with a lot more to think about than when I came into them, thanks to hearing others' opinions. It's all subjective, and hearing how other writers think about stories is always awesome.
I think you and I might be the only two people alive who didn't like this book. I saw the end from about chapter 2 and couldn't figure out why anybody was supposed to care about any of the characters. I feel that way about all of Taylor Jenkins Reid's stuff though. Actually the agent who represents Reid, Carly Watters, does the podcast The Shit No One Tells You About Writing and I find her taste in books to be questionable overall. Not the agent for me I suppose!
Wow!
Thanks for sharing these books. Are they archived somewhere, or just in your personal collection? Such important material. I know you are busy with your historical novel, but the story of you meeting these stars would make a great book in your able hands.
Old books are out of print, but there seems to be some used ones on Amazon. This was Bantam, I don't know how of if these old publishers are scanning and digitizing these old books or not.
That was him.
100% this!
