[June] Daisy Jones & The Six, by Taylor Jenkins Reid - Part Two

[Laura, Celestial Sphere Mod]

For the "number in the title or on the cover" pick for the June book of the month, there was a tie between two books. The mods figured we might as well do both!

For more information about the Book of the Month, see the introduction post.

* Part 1 - Through 'The Numbers Tour' (pages 1-151)
* Part 2 - Aurora (pages 155-261)
* Part 3 - Aurora World Tour (pages 265-End)

We're approaching the discussion a bit differently this time. Mods will provide one, slightly guided question. Discussion will then be completely open. If you have any questions yourself, feel free to post them. Subsequent comments can then answer whichever questions they find to be inspiring.

- Question: What do you think of the book so far? Reactions?

[Laura, Celestial Sphere Mod]

Just finished part two. Where are all my readers at? It seems like people area but distracted by the read-a-thon :P

I'm really enjoying the book at this point. It took a bit of getting used to. And I don't love some of dialogue, like when the different speakers repeat themselves about the same story. Sometimes it works and sometimes it feels forced.

I'm anxious to see how it will resolve since I have a feeling there will be plenty of heartache coming up.

[Bryony]

I finished it today but I was so engrossed in the sorry that I forgot there were discussion questions for part two! 😅

I wasn’t really enjoying this for about the first hundred pages and then at the start of the Aurora chapter it just clicked for me and I couldn’t put the book down.

I won’t say too much here as I can’t remember for sure whether some events happened later in the book and I don’t want to accidentally post spoilers. But, I think the point at which I really started to care about the characters was the stories about when Billy and Daisy were writing together. The way their relationship developed was so interesting and I really liked that neither of them were shown as all good or all bad, they were both just like real people with good and bad traits.

I wasn’t sure about the dialogue either, though it did make me laugh a few times, like when Eddie talks about the great riffs he wrote and then the next dialogue is Billy saying you have to make Eddie think everything is his own idea when actually it’s Billy’s idea all along.

[Laura, Celestial Sphere Mod]

Reading the scenes about “Impossible Woman” make me really sad that there’s no way to actually listen to the group’s or Daisy’s music...

[Pam]

Bryony - That is exactly where I started liking the book. It was ~ the 25% point. I found the collaboration of song writing to be one of the most interesting parts of the book. I just started watching the new TV show Songland and it reminded me of the book - the way creative ideas flow!

[Rachel]

I also don't want to go into too much detail because I read the whole thing in two days, without remembering where we had divided the parts. But I found the interactions between Billy and Daisy very interesting. Both individually were very compelling characters, and the dynamic of the two of them and each of them with the rest of the band felt very real.

[Sarah]

Laura wrote: "Reading the scenes about “Impossible Woman” make me really sad that there’s no way to actually listen to the group’s or Daisy’s music..."

I feel the same way! I need an album!