I have found the perfect book group â we discuss problematic text messages | Zoe Williams
My friends and I were keen to meet regularly, but couldnât agree on what to read. Then we found an excellent solution There comes a
My friends and I were keen to meet regularly, but couldnât agree on what to read. Then we found an excellent solution There comes a point in every friendship ecosystem when someone suggests starting a book group. Itâs a beautiful moment, the platonic modern equivalent of the 1950s âshall we go steady?â It means you want to see one another at least every six weeks, preferably on a fixed day in the calendar, so that when someone tries to pinch that day for another, less interesting thing, you can in perpetuity reply: âI canât, I have book group.â Since nobody ever disbands a book group, it is adultâspeak for âfriends for everâ, which, if you stare at it hard enough, is almost tearjerking.
So, anyway, this poignant moment arrived with my newish friends R and S, then immediately hit the road hump that none of us wanted to read a book. Nothing against books, guys, itâs just I am generally reading something weird that I wouldnât want to impose on you. S suggested a poem group; R nixed that.
I said maybe we could read Poems on the Underground while we were on the underground on our way to the poem group. That was
nixed, too. Continue reading...
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