BOOK CLUB EXPERIENCE
I attended the Santa Fe Public Library’s “Quarantine Book Club” for the first time on a Friday, February 19, at 4pm. For this, the second meeting of the club which began in December, we gathered over Zoom to discuss Trevor Noah’s Born A Crime , a memoir of the comedian’s early life growing up in South Africa. The club previously discussed Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens. The club will meet again in April to discuss SFPL’s pick for the NEA Big Read, Into the Beautiful North by Luis Alberto Urrea. The Tuesday before our meet up the moderating librarian emailed attendees a list of discussion questions that ranged from asking about the role of language in Noah's life, how he fit in or felt like an outsider, how we thought about his relationships, how the book compares to other memoirs, his writing style, to any challenges to our beliefs or opinions we found provocative. Twenty-one people attended. Everyone agreed this number did not require breaking into smaller groups...