“Another of Minnesotan writer Landvik's chick novels, this one concerns a book club that meets for 30 years from the '60s-90s. Births, deaths, raising kids, smoking, drinking, sex, politics...you name it. At first it seemed very much like a rerun of Fowler's The Jane Austen Book Club (the different members, their various problems, the lesbian daughter vs the different members, their various problems, the gay son), but after reading 2/3 of the book I thought Landvik was getting a bit more in depth with the characters.
It was a decent book, written in an easy to read style. The characters were interesting and fun. At some point it occurred to me though that anyone not like the title characters was boring or just plain wrong. I had to shake my head. Bonus points for a difficult coming out (gay son telling his mother) scene that I thought was somewhat realistic and for having an interesting take on religion (liberal but still important to many of the characters), but I couldn't shake my disappointment somehow.
Okay.”