Not a sitting around in someone’s living room drinking coffee (or wine), but a virtual one, and one I’m not really planning on participating in. I’m just going to read the book.
The only news I read is the local stuff that Google feeds me. I don’t watch the nightly news, nor any of the 24-hour news channels, the only way I get my news is from our left-leaning late night talk shows. Colbert has the best slant on it for me, but he was off last week. Kimmel is a watch when he’s actually there, but I think he takes 2 months off for summer, so all I had was Jimmy Fallon on the Tonight Show.
All week he was on this we’re going to have a Tonight Show Book Club and narrowing it down as the days progressed. Friday he announced this year’s book, My Friends by Fredrick Backman. He then read the first paragraph of the book aloud:
Louisa is a teenager, the best kind of human. The evidence for this is very simple: little children think teenagers are the best humans, and teenagers think that teenagers are the best humans, the only people who don’t think that teenagers are the best humans are adults. Which is obviously because adults are the worst kind of humans.
Based on just that, I went directly to Amazon and bought the book.