The Elegant Gathering of White Snows by Kris Radish

This book is about a group of women who have been meeting together every week for a few years, sharing their lives and bonding with each other. Suddenly, one evening they decide to just start walking. They walk right out the door of the house they were meeting in, taking nothing with them except some old tennis and a few jackest and pretty much don't stop walking for about a week straight. Throughout their walk they tell each other about all their deepest and darkest secrets and it becomes a sort of learning and healing process for each of them. It also becomes a national headliner which makes many other women stop and think about their lives.

I'm not sure I was able to really identify with any of the women in this book individually, but I did understand the general concepts of needing friends and needing to stop and really think about your life. If it's not making you happy, you should change it. I cried a bit during this book; sometimes because the story was sad, but more often because it made me think of something I'm not happy with in my own life.


Book Club comments:

There were only four of us at book club this time, so we didn't end up discussing the book for very long, but overall we seemed to agree that the book was interesting for the most part, made us think about our own lives, but wasn't one of the best books ever written.