My Best Friend’s Book Club

The reality TV crew has moved in and they’re ready to film Marjorie’s exorcism — and the days leading up to it. But is Marjorie really possessed? She pulls Merry aside and tells her she’s been faking it. It’s their dad who needs help — she just wants to expose him and get the family back on their feet after months of financial struggles.
Merry isn’t entirely sure she believes her — but decides to double down on Marjorie’s lie anyway. The problem? Marjorie is still acting deeply unsettling, and she’s been in Merry’s room again, doing more unsettling and curious things.
This week we do a deep dive into real exorcism cases, what the Catholic Church actually requires before approving one, and what modern science says about the cases where exorcisms seemingly worked. Possession or psychology — the answer is messier than you’d think. And with the human brain still so poorly understood, who’s to say what we’re truly capable of?
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About us: We read books so you don't have to — but you can. Part comedy, part literary chaos — welcome to the group chat. Non-readers, listen weekly for chapter summaries. Readers, check out our Reader Calendar (pinned to socials) to read along with us.
>> Next pages: A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay | p.185-252

Marjorie is getting worse, and it’s becoming increasingly unclear whether her condition can be treated with modern medicine or religious intervention. We’re talking more than uncanny or erratic behavior — Marjorie threatens to rip out her eight-year-old sister’s tongue, vomit oozes from her mouth at the dinner table, and she does something truly unnatural in her parents’ bed.
Is this a demonic possession, a mental health crisis, or something in between? And is signing up for a reality TV show really the right move for a family that’s been struggling financially?
We discuss faith vs. medicine, whether Merry is a reliable narrator, and if any of us actually believe in possession, God, and the afterlife.
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We read books so you don't have to — but you can. Part comedy, part literary chaos — welcome to the group chat. Non-readers, listen weekly for chapter summaries. Readers, check out our Reader Calendar (pinned to socials) to read along with us.
>> Next pages: A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay | p.115-185

Eight-year-old Merry’s sister Marjorie is changing in ways nobody can explain. The stories the sisters used to write together are getting dark. Marjorie is sneaking into Merry’s room while she sleeps — and doing some interesting things. Fifteen years later, Merry is back in that house telling the story of her sister’s alleged demonic possession to a journalist. Can we trust her retelling of the story?
Bram Stoker Award winner, Stephen King approved, and a movie adaptation in the works — A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay is not one to sleep on. We discuss the fine line between mental illness and possession, religion, and our current beliefs regarding demons and the afterlife. 
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We read books so you don't have to — but you can. Part comedy, part literary chaos — welcome to the group chat. Non-readers, listen weekly for chapter summaries. Readers, check out our Reader Calendar (pinned to socials) to read along with us.
>> Next pages: A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay | p.58-115

Bear has been found. Barbara has been found. And the truth about what happened fourteen years ago on the Van Laar Preserve is finally out — and let's just say we have a lot of feelings about the end of this book.
Join us for the final chapter summary of Liz Moore's God of the Woods. We share final ratings, dive into reviews from others, play book trivia, and unpack the ending that left us with more questions than answers. Was this book too long? Did our characters grow? Did we need that many timelines and characters?
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We read books so you don't have to — but you can. Part comedy, part literary chaos — welcome to the group chat. Non-readers, listen weekly for chapter summaries. Readers, check out our Reader Calendar (pinned to socials) to read along with us.
>> Next book & pages: A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay | p.1-58

A month before Barbara goes missing, we learn she's more than capable of surviving in the woods. But an accident leads to a bloody camper's uniform — and a kid who finally reveals where Barbara has been sneaking off to every night. The evidence in Barbara's disappearance is building, and it's all pointing to John Paul Jr (or is it?).
Back in 1961, we learn what happened to Bear in the days before he went on that walk with his grandfather and was never seen again. In present day, Judy is quietly uncovering the truth — and if you can believe it, it's a cover up orchestrated by the rich and powerful.
We discuss Barbara's nightly disappearances, whether you could kill wildlife to survive, how relationships change over time, school dances, and our final end of book predictions.
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We read books so you don't have to — but you can. Part comedy, part literary chaos — welcome to the group chat. Non-readers, listen weekly for chapter summaries. Readers, check out our Reader Calendar (pinned to socials) to read along with us.
>> Next pages: The God of the Woods by Liz Moore | p.388-END
>>> Next book & pages: A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay | p.1-58

John Paul Jr. has been found — beaten, drunk, and with a very suspicious bag containing a bloody item. Does the blood belong to missing Barbara Van Laar? Louise (camp counselor) is still being questioned in her jail cell, and if you can believe it, John Paul Jr.'s version of events doesn't bode well for her. A new character enters the story with some damning opinions about how the Van Laar family and Captain LaRochelle handled the search for Bear. The main suspect? Honestly, no idea.
We discuss when pride gets the best of you, the spicy moment between TJ and Louise, whodunit predictions, and — just like the campers — we play a little truth or dare.
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We read books so you don't have to — but you can. Part comedy, part literary chaos — welcome to the group chat. Non-readers, listen weekly for chapter summaries. Readers, check out our Reader Calendar (pinned to socials) to read along with us.
>> Next pages: The God of the Woods by Liz Moore | p.307-388

Alibis are unraveling, evidence bags are turning up with things that shouldn't be in them, and the Van Laar Preserve is collecting casualties across every timeline. Tracy is lost in the woods screaming into the void. Louise is locked in an interrogation room with no lawyer and no options. Alice is sedated while the husband decided what’s best, and Carl wakes up to find out he's the primary suspect in Bear’s disappearance.
Timelines are colliding and it’s still ridiculously unclear where this book is headed. We discuss who the mysterious silver-haired figure in the woods is, if you—at 13—would have also followed the figure, getting legal representation, and what the cocaine in that evidence bag really means.
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We read books so you don't have to — but you can. Part comedy, part literary chaos — welcome to the group chat. Non-readers, listen weekly for chapter summaries. Readers, check out our Reader Calendar (pinned to socials) to read along with us.
>> Next pages: The God of the Woods by Liz Moore | p.219-307

The Van Laar Preserve has already claimed one child — and nobody who was there during the search for Bear has recovered. We start to get a sense of what happened to Bear, who helped, and who might be carry secrets into his mysterious disappearance.
Fourteen years later, Barbara Van Laar is now missing, and the timelines are colliding. We travel from a seventeen-year-old Alice being swept into a marriage with a twenty-nine-year-old Peter Van Laar (woof), through the haunting search for Bear, and back to present day where Barbara is missing - or is she?
We discuss age gap relationships, sex education, and what black flies actually symbolize.
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>> Next pages: The God of the Woods by Liz Moore | p.153-219

It's 1975 in the Adirondack Mountains, and a girl is missing from her bunk at Camp Emerson. No flashlight. No note. Just gone. The problem? Almost nobody who should have been watching was actually where they were supposed to be.
God of the Woods by Liz Moore drops us into multiple timelines and perspectives from page one — a struggling camp counselor covering her tracks, a twelve-year-old girl who knows more than she's saying, a wealthy family with a devastating secret, and an escaped convict heading north through the woods. We discuss land ownership and old money, the origin of the word "panic," mother-daughter relationships, and the one rule that's going to matter more than anyone realizes: when lost, sit down and yell.
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We read books so you don't have to — but you can. Part comedy, part literary chaos — welcome to the group chat. Non-readers, listen weekly for chapter summaries. Readers, check out our Reader Calendar (pinned to socials) to read along with us.
>> Next pages: The God of the Woods by Liz Moore | p.75-153

Five women. One unsolved case. And a system that failed them long before a killer did. Robert Kolker's Lost Girls brought these women back to life on the page — and the Netflix film tried to do the same on screen. But did it?
We break down the book to screen adaptation, dive into the perception of sex work, how socioeconomic standing shapes who gets justice, and what it means to tell these stories responsibly. We have opinions. We have feelings. And we're not holding back.
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We read books so you don't have to — but you can. Part comedy, part literary chaos — welcome to the group chat. Non-readers, listen weekly for chapter summaries. Readers, check out our Reader Calendar (pinned to socials) to read along with us.
>> Next book & pages: The God of the Woods by Liz Moore | p.1-75