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“I used to race through books one after another, but in Book Club Harriet taught us that when you slow down, you notice more, and when you notice more, you feel more. Reading one book makes it part of all the books you've ever read, Harriet said, so she was forever dragging other books into our discussions.

QUESTION: If Gatsby had a brother like Ethan Frome, would he have made the same mistakes?

QUESTION: If Frank and Zooey could speak from the Spoon River graveyard, which one would tell the story, which the "meanwhile"?”
― Monica Wood, How to Read a Book

“Harriet sits with my story for a few minutes, the way she sometimes did in Book Club. Let it settle first, she'd tell us. Let it settle before deciding what it's about.”
― Monica Wood, How to Read a Book

“I look like someone at a costume party who nobody can guess what they’re supposed to be.”
― Monica Wood, How to Read a Book

“These words do not fly off my tongue. These words step out one by one, wearing shoes.”
― Monica Wood, How to Read a Book