How To Read A Book

By: Monica Wood

This story is about a provocative book club in a women’s prison led by a volunteer retired teacher. And if that’s not enough to peak your interests… you’ll likely be sucked in by the intertwined stories of crime, romance, family drama, or talking parrots.

“Everything here is designed to murder your privacy.” p1

“He was standing on a ladder, hijacked by happiness, tapping nails into a frame he’d built for the perfect pane of glass, snapped up at Marden’s for a song.” p49

“These words do not fly off my tongue. These words step out one by one, wearing shoes.” p92

“Perhaps it's an oddity of human nature to judge women more harshly. Or maybe we expect so little of men, their transgressions don't register the same.” p150

“The drive to Abbott Falls took an hour and a half, a passage of time that, to Frank, felt edged with magic, plucked from the normal course of events, as if they were traveling not by car but by snow globe.” p179

“Tomorrow, though: tomorrow was already a wonder in progress, a gift unwrapping, as if Frank, too, had just been released from prison.” p190

“She took in the scents and colors, the celebrating birds, the alternating pleasures of stillness and motion. Clumps of daisies erupted here and there, cutting drunken paths through the waving grass.” p207

“I can think of no occasion, Harriet said, including funerals, nuclear summits, and parent-teacher meetings, that could not be vastly improved by a full-body red.” p239