My book club read Dear Committee Members by Julie Schumacher a couple months ago. I love my book club and I love reading. But I am also a tightwad. Why buy a book when you can borrow it from the library for free? Well, it's hard when 23 other people are ahead of you in line to read this book. So I look to Amazon for the Kindle version. Am I willing to pay $12 for an electronic book of only 193 pages? No, I am not. I am a book lover and a tightwad. This time the tightwad won the battle and for the first time, I faked it in book club. I went to the discussion. I listened to the comments. I smiled. I nodded. I had no idea what they were talking about but, as far as I know, no one but me knew that. When questions were asked and opinions solicited I raised my eyebrows and looked up as if I was formulating my thoughts but I didn't have any because I didn't read the book yet. Now, the book was available so I read it in a couple of hours this weekend. I remember quite a bit of the discussion and things make more sense to me now. This book is a series of emails and letters written by a very angry, possibly pathologically angry, English professor at the University of Minnesota. If you enjoy sarcasm and sincerely passive aggressive shenanigans, you will enjoy Dear Committee Members.
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