#dailylight

#dailylight #bookclub I help facilitate First Monday Classics, a bookclub through my library, and as the title implies we meet monthly to discuss a work of classic literature. Our definition of "classic" has been fairly broad, and since some of us are now in our third year the club (meaning we've already done a lot of the traditional canon), we're expanding even further.

Tonight, we discussed True Grit, a story I knew from its two film adaptations, but had never read. I'm not so much a Western fan per se, but I *really* loved this one. It came down to voice, I think. Mattie Ross seemed so real, one of those characters that really talks and walks and doesn't feel at all like an authorial construct.

My husband likes to tease me about my addiction to book clubs (I'm only in two, technically). He had enough of assigned reading as an English major back in the day, I guess. It can sometimes feel that way to me, but I think that what I really love is the chance to talk about a book with others who have also read it.

That chance comes up sometimes, just in conversation, but when you're at book club, everyone there has given the book a try, even if they didn't finish it. So, it's a different level of conversation, and it's not based on the chance encounter of finding someone whose read what you've read recently enough to remember it and that this shared reading selection comes up in small talk.

- A napoletane aperte

Agropoli, 8 April ‘‘18