book club

Ok so our book club meets every other Thursday and tonight was the night, which meant I spent my entire commute this morning speed-reading the last 80 pages on my phone like some kind of deranged speed-runner. We picked this novel back in July and I had literally two months to finish it. Two months. I read maybe 40 pages in the first six weeks and then somehow expected the last 200 to just... absorb themselves. The rain did not help on the walk over, by the way. Showed up slightly damp, very underprepared, wearing my best 'I have thoughts about the themes' expression. Someone asked what I made of the ending and I said 'I think it resists a clean reading' which is the academic equivalent of pleading the fifth. Anyway the wine was good.