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WELCOME TO OUR FIRST/FINAL BOOK CLUB!
The New Yorker
|January 20, 2025
Thank you, everyone, for coming to our first/final book-club meeting. Apologies for how long it's taken us to settle on a date, but in between work, kids, and the pretense of joining adult recreational sports leagues, it seems that we all have incredibly busy schedules.
After months of deliberation and hundreds of messages in the group chat, the third Tuesday of the month, from 4:27 P.M. to 5:36 P.M. (non-gibbous moon), seems to be the only time that works for everyone.
Despite the hours of our lives lost to logistical planning, I'm so glad we're doing this book club and strengthening our bonds as friends by convening monthly to enrich our minds. Books are so great. They're like watching a movie with subtitles, except Billie Eilish doesn't record an original song for them, and there are no hot people to look at, unless you want to go through the effort of imagining them in your brain.
This story is from the January 20, 2025 edition of The New Yorker.
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