Hunger and Thirst
Cut along the dashed lines and pass the cards around the table.
Tell us where you did most of your reading, and whether you had something to eat or drink in hand while you did it.
Before you opened it, what did the title 'Hunger and Thirst' make you expect, and did the actual feeling of the book match that?
This is a book about wanting. What is something small you have genuinely craved this year, and did reading this make you feel tender toward that craving or a little embarrassed by it?
Which passage made you physically aware of your own body, hungry, thirsty, cold, or just wanting to be held? Read it out if you marked it.
Where in these pages did you find actual comfort, even a sentence's worth, and did you go back and reread it?
Claire Fuller writes places that feel like weather you live inside. Did this book's setting feel like somewhere you wanted to be, or somewhere you were relieved to close the cover on?
Was there a moment where you wanted to step into the story and simply feed someone, or sit with them? What would you have brought them?
By the last pages, had your feeling toward the characters softened, hardened, or just gone quiet? Try to describe the feeling rather than what happened.