📚 Book Club: Foreverland
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📚 Book Club: Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage
Join us in September to read and discuss Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage by Heather Havrilesky.
An illuminating, poignant, and savagely funny examination of modern marriage from Ask Polly advice columnist Heather Havrilesky.
In Foreverland, Heather Havrilesky illustrates the delights, aggravations, and sublime calamities of her marriage over the span of fifteen years, charting an unpredictable course from meeting her one true love to slowly learning just how much energy is required to keep that love aflame. This refreshingly honest portrait of a marriage reveals that our relationships are not simply "happy" or "unhappy," but something much murkier--at once unsavory, taxing, and deeply satisfying. With tales of fumbled proposals, harrowing suburban migrations, external temptations, and the bewildering insults of growing older, Foreverland is a work of rare candor and insight. Havrilesky traces a path from daydreaming about forever for the first time to understanding what a tedious, glorious drag forever can be.
📘 2023 Book Club Selections
We have several upcoming book clubs. Our organizing team picked a wide range of books from different authors and spanning different genres. Join us for the books you are interested in discussing with us. Events will be posted on Meetup.
March 29 - The Light We Carry - Michelle Obama
May 31 - You Look Like a Thing and I Love You - Janelle Shane
July 26 - Deep Work - Cal Newport
September 27 - Foreverland - Heather Havrilesky
November 29 - The Travelling Cat Chronicles - Hiro Arikawa
If you are a Goodreads member, you can join the WWCode Portland Book Club group to stay in touch.
⏰ Agenda
6:00 - Welcome & Introductions
6:15 - General Discussion
7:30 - Closing Remarks
☎️ Join us in Zoom
Time: Sep 27, 2023 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
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