Existential Book Club is an experimental book club to help busy people explore the question: what does it mean to live a good life?

Participants arrive at 10am on a Saturday, surrender their phone, and are given a physical book, which they then read cover to cover for 4-5 hours with a short break for lunch.

Reading and eating will be done in silence, and there will be no checking of texts or e-mail.

After reading, we'll move into individual reflection (hand-written writing exercises) and group discussion. The day wraps up at 5pm.

We'll be reading A Million Miles in a Thousand Years, by Donald Miller. 900+ reviews on Amazon w/ 4.5 stars, here's the description from Publishers' Weekly:

Miller, the accidental memoirist who struck gold with the likable ramble Blue Like Jazz, writes about the challenges inherent in getting unstuck creatively and spiritually. After Jazz sold more than a million copies but his other books didn't follow suit, he had a classic case of writer's block.

Two movie producers contacted him about creating a film out of his life, but Miller's initial enthusiasm was dampened when they concluded that his real life needed doctoring lest it be too directionless for the screen.

Real stories, he learned, require characters who suffer and overcome. In desultory fashion, Miller sets out to change his own life—to be the kind of guy who seeks out his father, chases the girl and undertakes a quest.