How Not to Recommend a Book

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A few years ago, I wrote in The Atlantic about my complete failure to run a book club. This group should have been a slam dunk: I’d recruited my best friends; we were all stuck inside because of COVID, yearning for distraction and connection; we were all women who love to read and talk about books. And yet we managed to get through only two selections, both of which I hated, before giving up entirely.