Total Hours: 125
For this month’s book club we read the sensational and
polarizing psychological thriller Gone
Girl by Gillian Flynn. I had avoided
reading the book up until now because I saw it as one of those hot new “I
haven’t read a book in 15 years but I loved Girl
with a Dragon Tattoo!” type of phenomena.
I had the idea to start the discussion off by showing the
two new trailers for the movie version, which comes out in October. It was interesting to see how novel they
thought the idea of showing the trailers was, something I hadn’t thought twice
about. On a related note, they weren’t
really that open to the idea of meeting somewhere else when Lori, the group leader, brought up maybe
meeting at a near-by coffee shop, which goes to show that the recent trend of off-site
book club meeting places doesn’t appeal to every group.
I think Gone Girl
was a good discussion pick because it was so polarizing. There were a wide variety of opinions on the
book, and we all got to have our say.
And speaking of everyone having their say, a great moment happened right
at the end of the meeting, when one of the members specifically pointed out
that Lori was one of the best book group leaders she had ever had, mentioning
how good she was at letting everyone have their turn to talk. We all clapped and you could tell Lori really
appreciated the positive feedback. And
then another member agreed, adding that they all really like hearing what she
has to say about the book, and that she should share that more! Lori responded that she doesn’t usually like
to impart too much because she feels like it is the group’s book club, not
hers, which I thought was an interesting point of view. I think striking a balance between
facilitating and participating will be an interesting aspect of my (anticipated)
future book club duties.
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