Paul

“Oh, that’s all right,” said Jamie. “I thought that you might have agreed to sort something out—you know, your normal thing.” “Well, it might be a book group with issues,” Isabel said. Jamie gave her a disapproving look. “I should have guessed that,” he said. Then he added, “From what I’ve heard, all book groups have issues.” Isabel thought about this. He was right, she decided. Most of the people she knew who were in book groups complained about something or other; no book group, it seemed, was perfect.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Conditions of Unconditional Love