i am almost done

can i post about a book i am almost done with?

i love my book club.

going on five years.

i think we found our core group.

six women.

different as can be.

we all come because we need it.

in some way, it gives us something.

we have had a wide variety of characters come through our book club doors. some have stayed; some have moved on. some needed us only for a time; some might come back.

this discussion's book: sophie's choice.

discussion helped me see its merits past the sex, foul language, and laborious narration. it is the type of book that warrants discussion. it almost necessitates it; it is too hard and too complicated to just sit in the private thoughts of its reader. it has to be grappled with, wrestled with, hated and loved. had it not been for this group, i would not have finished. because i finished, i would put it on the list of books i would like to teach one day and am probably not qualified to teach because it is so complex, difficult, sensitive, and raw. my husband will laugh when i tell him how much i respect this book after all my complaining over the last week in my attempts to finish (failed, mind you). it is a noteworthy book, hard, dated, rich, raw, but noteworthy.