The last book of 2025 is nonfiction, and is structured as a series of vignettes, which will make for a different memoir-reading experience.
This meetup will be closely encroaching the holiday season. If you’re feeling festive and in the spirit of gift giving, then come armed with a fun bookmark to bestow upon one of your fellow readers. This part is not a requirement - some people have too many already, and some always just use the closest receipt. But if you want to participate, then we can swap those around while waiting to place our order.
Below is a shortened summary from the CLAMS website:
“We are never closer to life than when we brush up against the possibility of death. I Am, I Am, I Am is Maggie O'Farrell's astonishing memoir of the near-death experiences that have punctuated and defined her life…. Seventeen discrete encounters with Maggie at different ages, in different locations, reveal a whole life in a series of tense, visceral snapshots. In taut prose that vibrates with electricity and restrained emotion, O'Farrell captures the perils running just beneath the surface, and illuminates the preciousness, beauty, and mysteries of life itself.”
I hope to see everyone there!
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