Book Club
Book Club Meets on the 2nd and 4th Mondays of each month, at 7 PM eastern
The next meeting is December 8.
We will begin discussing our new book My Friends: A Novel by Fredrik Backman.
Assignment: Read through Chapter 8, page 55, for the first discussing meeting.
All are welcome to join, even if you haven't participated in our online Book Club before.
If you have any questions, please reach out to Cynthia cabbott@cofchrist.org.
The next meeting of the MAMC book club is Monday, December 8. The book is My Friends by Fredrik Backman, translated by Neil Smith.
Joseph Smith Jr. told us a long time ago, that man is, that he might have joy. More recently in D&C 161:1b we were told to laugh and sing and play. In that spirit My Friends” was selected for our book club. Many of the important things about life I learned from reading the comic strips in the daily newspaper. One of the most educational was ‘Peanuts' which featured a Beagle who was a famous WWI fighter pilot and an aspiring writer. As I remember Snoopy never got beyond his opening lines: It was a dark and stormy night. Suddenly a shot rang out!
My Friends begins with a memorable opening: “Louisa is a teenager, the best kind of human. The evidence for this is very simple: little children think teenagers are the best humans, and teenagers think teenagers are the best humans, the only people who don’t think teenagers are the best humans are adults. Which is obviously because adults are the worst kind of humans.” Later in this short first chapter we learn the difference between art and vandalism.
The chapters are not long and the sentences are mostly short. Pick up a copy at the library or Barnes & Noble. Sit back in a chair and read the first chapter. It won’t take long. Maybe you will or will not like it. I cannot promise a religious experience if you read the whole book. But I am very certain you will learn something about art, grief, friendship. And even laugh once or twice.
Try to read through Chapter 8, page 55, for the first discussion meeting on Monday, December 8, at 7:00 pm. My Friends by Fredrik Backman. An earlier book by Backman became the American movie starring Tom Hanks, A Man Called Otto.
Ron Baldwin
