St. Anne's Reading Group Experience discussion

Attendance
1. Marie 1
2. Fred 1
3. Ronnie 2
4. Candace 1
5. David 1
6. Sam 0
7. Roxanne 0

General
1. SARGE Status
a. "Unfortunately, I love her"
b. History of Indonesian Concentration camps
2. Meeting gossip
a. Good meeting
b. Nice new comer share
c. Great birthday shares
d. Facts of hypocrisy
1. is hypocrisy always bad?
e. "If the mountain was smooth, then you would not be able to climb it"

Discussion
1. Main character has lost hope
2. Stupid book
3. Most characters lives get worse
a. they think things are good and then they get bad and then they get worse & the bad times are seen as good.
b. The bad times can always get worse
c. The bad times may not be as bad as they seem
4. Every change just makes things worse
5. Disassociate the pain of all events
6. Characters recover too quickly.
a. human nature to gloss over the bad parts
b. optimism is a defense mechanism
7. event-event-event
a. predictable story telling
b. not impressed
8. horrible until something more horrible comes along
9. desensitized to the harm
a. are the characters desensitized?
b. is the reader?
10. Culture is used to the abuse
11. hideous shock gets mowed down
12. they live in the doorway, but things keep getting works
13. book feel fragmented
a. chunks and chunks

Next
1. Victory party at Strawberry Farms.