My book club's entire discussion of 'Klara and the Sun' went sideways when our Zoom link crashed last Tuesday.

We had to scramble and finish the debate over a messy group text, which actually led to some surprisingly thoughtful points about isolation versus connection, so has anyone else had a tech fail change how your club talks about a book?

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wells.reese1mo ago

Our book club just rescheduled when the wifi died.

tessa_hill8611d ago

Actually gotta disagree a bit. The text thread made things feel more rushed and scattered for us, people started typing over each other and losing track of who was saying what about the sun. The slower pace just meant more awkward pauses, not deeper thinking.

jason7521mo ago

Forced into that group text, did the slower pace of typing out your thoughts actually help people get deeper into the book's themes? It's funny how a broken link can make you talk more like the characters, who are also stuck in their own kind of limited communication.

robert_craig11d ago

jason752 hit it - a buddy of mine had his whole Dune book club end up in a group text after the call dropped and someone accidentally typed a whole paragraph about Paul Atreides into the wrong chat lol