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Our next book selection is GK Chesterton’s The Man Who Was Thursday. It will be a new read for me, though I’ve thoroughly enjoyed Chesterton’s Orthodoxy and The Everlasting Man. From everything I’ve read about the book, it sounds like an engaging genre-busting mind-bender that should spark some good discussion in our group.
Readers say it grips them like a thriller while quietly asking the biggest questions a story can ask. What begins as a tale of secret societies and shifting identities becomes a surprising exploration of fear, authority, freedom, and joy in a world that often feels chaotic and untrustworthy. Chesterton captures the modern anxiety that reality itself may be hostile, and then he turns it inside out with wit and a sense of wonder. The book is seen by many as clever without being cold, profound without being heavy, and mysterious without being meaningless. Readers sometimes finish it startled, delighted, and newly convinced that the universe may be stranger and more joyful than they had imagined.