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Our group is designed to create a warm, caring experience of book fellowship, in which all members are welcome and have fun! Along with our main selections, additional book ideas are provided for our members who may want to explore more under a genre. As always, please share with us your ideas, and any book recommendations!
* We have chosen the Collection as an easily accessible, mid~way point for members from Oxnard to Ventura, so that we can create a vibrant and fun real world book community. We meet on Sundays around brunch~time for members who have work and family obligations that make weekday evenings a difficult meeting time.
Tell us your favorite quote or passage and here’s one for you. Can you guess the book & the author?
“He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced--or seemed to face--the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.”
The Great Gatsby about Gatsby himself as perceived by our narrator, who is also sucked into his orbit…
Is Gatsby an incurable romantic, a dreamer, or a charlatan, playing those around him? And what of his idealized Daisy? Some interesting questions. But I love the quote, regardless.
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