The good news about starting my own book club and having it take off so nicely? More connections with people who share an abiding passion of mine. Bad news? My "to read" list - which was already a little unwieldy - is getting harder to manage.
Still, if I hadn't connected with one of these discerning readers via my club, Simon Van Booy could have easily escaped my radar. "The Illusion Of Separateness" (2013) is one of those tiny gems that compels you to finish it in one sitting. And though the novel's title telegraphs its theme, like many small reading treasures, the greatest joy is derived by luxuriating in the prose and extracting the wisdom in the words.
"He realized that what people think are their lives are merely its conditions. The truth is closer than thought and lies buried in what we already know."
"In a sense we are all prisoners of some memory, or fear, or disappointment - we are all defined by what we cannot change."
What wisdom have you extracted from a novel you've recently read?
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