The Company of Strangers Who Read the Same Book
When you finish a book alone, your interpretation becomes the interpretation. You never discover what you missed. A monthly book club shatters that certainty. Someone else read the same words and saw something entirely different. They caught the clue you overlooked, hated the character you loved, noticed the parallel you missed. On the friction of other minds, the discipline of deadlines, and why books are better when you have someone to fight with about them.