Fun Home Episode 4

Life choices, raising children, household organization, solipsism, and more. The women continue their chat inspired by “Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic” by Alison Bechdel. Are you a person who has too many mugs or just enough? 

Discussion Points:

• Reading a graphic novel like reading poetry
• Literary references and complicated vocabulary in Fun Home
• Philosophy of solipsism 
• Making life choices that make yourself happy
• The nuclear family and adult creative pursuits
• Raising children with a village versus a small family
• The advantages to having multi-aged play groups
• Child, bag, and other trackers
• Having homes for household objects so you don’t lose things
• Having too many mugs

Mentioned on this episode of Book Interrupted:

Book Interrupted Website 

Book Interrupted YouTube Channel

Book Interrupted Facebook Book Club Group

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel 

Dykes to Watch Out For

Solipsistic

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

The 4% Fix: How One Hour Can Change Your Life by Karma Brown

Hunt, Gather, Parent: What Ancient Cultures Can Teach Us About the Lost Art of Raising Happy, Helpful Little Humans by Michaeleen Doucleff

The Tile App