Book Club Log #16

This month's book was Woodworking by Emily St. James, of which I need to finish writing my long emotional post about. I had reached out to a book club member about this book because I wanted to talk to another gender diverse person about it, and we have plans to talk about it later (maybe I'm becoming their friend? honestly at this point I'm now like worrying that I won't even have enough to talk to them about waaaaaaah), but the group format here meant that I felt really awkward and hardly said anything in the first half (so fucking typical for me where the first half is just me trying to work up the courage to talk, and then even then sometimes I fail to lmao). I did talk some in the second-half. I can only hope that I wasn't too off-putting. Afterwards, I ended up talking to Cargo Pants, who was gone away to college for the school year previously. There were definitely some awkward silences but I'm trying not to overthink everything and just assume it is low stakes. She happened to…