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When book clubs become too academic

Our book club has turned into this thing where everyone tries to sound the smartest and we dissect every novel like we're writing dissertations and I miss when we just talked about whether we liked the characters and what the story made us feel.

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The pursuit of intellectual rigor has crowded out the simple pleasure of sharing stories together.

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