Burton is in a book club. Burton was very intrigued by the latest book they read, so he wrote a long blog post about it before the book club meeting. In his post, he shows how the
novel, Ruthie Fear, both builds on and overturns canonical narratives of the American West. At the meeting, he spends fifteen minutes reading his blog post aloud to the rest of the
group. When he finishes, they nod and someone says "very interesting!" Then they change the subject and move on. What happened?
- The book club didn't like Ruthie Fear very much.
O The book club members don't care very much about literature,
O Burton's written words may have been hard to understand or connect with in spoken form.
O Burton offended the book club members with his unexpected interpretation of the novel.
