“Now, that’s a book I would read.” The statement traveled from the other side of the neutral toned, shabby-chic decorated living room, followed by a few lukewarm affirmatives. Miranda wasn’t great with names so she identified the gregarious, earth-mother type as simply Member No. 14. Miranda wasn’t even sure why she was here. Now that Sean and Cassandra were in high school, everyone kept telling her it was time to take up some former hobbies she’d put on the back burner over the years. When a friend told her about the Wednesday night book club, she thought it might be just the nudge she needed to get started. She’d even taken the first step by making a list of goals to set for herself. Her only fear was that the item she’d put at the top of the list would take the rest of her life to complete: Figuring Out My Life’s Purpose. …show more content…
8 asked as she pushed her Kate Spade eyeglasses back in their position on the bridge of her nose. “Or anything and everything scribbled onto a napkin by one of the Brontë sisters?” “No, I mean something about someone in this day and time who experienced something like that,” explained 14. “A modern story about two people, who maybe have always been deeply connected, you know? Maybe life circumstances drove them apart, but then brought them back together, and nothing can keep them apart, you know? My God, she says at one point, ‘I am