I finished Mary McCarthy's The Group last night. I like this book :) It isn't particularly happy, but I liked it. Of course, I also loved The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway.
It was nice seeing a realistic approach to life after college during an economic depression surrounded by political turmoil throughout the world. Sounds a little like now, doesn't it? The girls graduated from Vassuer in 1933, but they don't feel very removed from us. I like that you can still relate to these very real women even though the book was written over fifty years ago. I know a lot has changed since then, but somethings about human nature will always stay the same.
I also appreciate that this book was so taboo for it's time. In today's culture, what made the book taboo then doesn't even make anyone blink anymore. At all. I wish our society had held on to some of that modesty and innocence...
The next book we will read is Emma by Jane Austen. I will probably start it tonight. Please continue this literary journey with us!
