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THUMBS UP FOR BOOK CLUB GIRL'S NIGHT!
Join the Paper & Glam Book Club the last Thursday of the month @ 6 PM PST/9 PM EST. For more information, all resources are linked below.
Here are our discussion questions for Liane Moriarty's Truly Madly Deeply:
Ice Breaker - What is your first week of fall tradition?
1. What was your experience reading Truly Madly Guilty? Star rating?
2. What was your favorite quote or passage?
3. Erika’s psychologist tells her,“You’ve got to get this idea out of your head about there being some objective measure of normality...This ‘normal’ person of whom you speak doesn’t exist!” Do you agree? Do you think this relates back to Tolstoy’s famous quote, “... each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way”? Is the real normal that, once you scratch the surface, no family is normal?
4. Sylvia’s hoarding is a major source of embarrassment and sorrow for Erika. She reflects: “Her mother loved things so much that she had nothing.” What do you make of that line?
5. The epigraph is a Claude Debussy quote: “Music is the silence between the notes.” How significant are silences and the unsaid in this novel?
6. What does Clementine mean when she thinks back on the “extraordinary ordinariness” of her life before the barbecue? How is the ordinary treated in this novel? Do you think it’s inevitable that we don’t appreciate the ordinary? Do we need a life event as jarring as what happened to Sam and Clementine in order to fully appreciate our lives?
7. Near the end of the novel, Clementine wonders “what sort of person Erika could have been, would have been, should have been, if she’d been given the privilege of an ordinary home. You could jump so much higher when you had somewhere safe to fall.” Do you agree? Or is it the opposite, struggle breeds strength?
Thank you for reading along with us!
Lisamarie
{R E S O U R C ES}
♥ September's Read - Truly, Madly, Guilty - amzn.to/2vvvzdy
♥ October's Read - Anne of Green Gables - amzn.to/2xJhKIg
♥ 2017 Book Club Planner Kit - shop.paperandglam.com/collections/glam-mail/products/book-club-planner-kit
♥ Glam Reads Planner Kit - shop.paperandglam.com/collections/glam-mail/products/glam-fall-holiday-reads-planner-stickers
♥ NEW Glam Reading Planner Stickers - shop.paperandglam.com/collections/glam-mail/products/glam-reading-planner-stickers
♥ TWO FREE Audiobooks from Audible: goo.gl/kqEJYV
♥ Glasses: Ray-Ban Original Wayfarer - goo.gl/JErlI0
{C O N N E C T}
♥ H O M E: paperandglam.com
♥ G L A M S H O P: shop.paperandglam.com
♥ PI N T E R E S T: pinterest.com/paperandglam
♥ T W I T T E R: twitter.com/paperandglam
♥ I N S T A G R A M: instagram.com/paperandglam
♥ F A C E B O O K: facebook.com/PaperandGlam
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♥ P A P E R & G L A M P L A N N I N G: goo.gl/bAUnM9
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THUMBS UP FOR BOOK CLUB GIRL'S NIGHT!
Join the Paper & Glam Book Club the last Thursday of the month @ 6 PM PST/9 PM EST. For more information, all resources are linked below.
Here are our discussion questions for Liane Moriarty's Truly Madly Deeply:
Ice Breaker - What is your first week of fall tradition?
1. What was your experience reading Truly Madly Guilty? Star rating?
2. What was your favorite quote or passage?
3. Erika’s psychologist tells her,“You’ve got to get this idea out of your head about there being some objective measure of normality...This ‘normal’ person of whom you speak doesn’t exist!” Do you agree? Do you think this relates back to Tolstoy’s famous quote, “... each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way”? Is the real normal that, once you scratch the surface, no family is normal?
4. Sylvia’s hoarding is a major source of embarrassment and sorrow for Erika. She reflects: “Her mother loved things so much that she had nothing.” What do you make of that line?
5. The epigraph is a Claude Debussy quote: “Music is the silence between the notes.” How significant are silences and the unsaid in this novel?
6. What does Clementine mean when she thinks back on the “extraordinary ordinariness” of her life before the barbecue? How is the ordinary treated in this novel? Do you think it’s inevitable that we don’t appreciate the ordinary? Do we need a life event as jarring as what happened to Sam and Clementine in order to fully appreciate our lives?
7. Near the end of the novel, Clementine wonders “what sort of person Erika could have been, would have been, should have been, if she’d been given the privilege of an ordinary home. You could jump so much higher when you had somewhere safe to fall.” Do you agree? Or is it the opposite, struggle breeds strength?
Thank you for reading along with us!
Lisamarie
{R E S O U R C ES}
♥ September's Read - Truly, Madly, Guilty - amzn.to/2vvvzdy
♥ October's Read - Anne of Green Gables - amzn.to/2xJhKIg
♥ 2017 Book Club Planner Kit - shop.paperandglam.com/collections/glam-mail/products/book-club-planner-kit
♥ Glam Reads Planner Kit - shop.paperandglam.com/collections/glam-mail/products/glam-fall-holiday-reads-planner-stickers
♥ NEW Glam Reading Planner Stickers - shop.paperandglam.com/collections/glam-mail/products/glam-reading-planner-stickers
♥ TWO FREE Audiobooks from Audible: goo.gl/kqEJYV
♥ Glasses: Ray-Ban Original Wayfarer - goo.gl/JErlI0
{C O N N E C T}
♥ H O M E: paperandglam.com
♥ G L A M S H O P: shop.paperandglam.com
♥ PI N T E R E S T: pinterest.com/paperandglam
♥ T W I T T E R: twitter.com/paperandglam
♥ I N S T A G R A M: instagram.com/paperandglam
♥ F A C E B O O K: facebook.com/PaperandGlam
♥ G O D & G L A M: goo.gl/6STuu7
♥ P A P E R & G L A M B O OK C L U B: goo.gl/U4jUee
♥ P A P E R & G L A M P L A N N I N G: goo.gl/bAUnM9
FTC Disclaimer: Links may be affiliates.
