BOOK CLUB takes viewers on an emotional and personal journey through the lives of eight American women, bonded by a book | dG1fZU5hT2pIeEVUZ00
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00:00Why don't we do this? Go around and say what book you brought today.
00:11I read it. I didn't like it.
00:13You didn't like it. Well, I did.
00:15When we first started, my husband made $150 a month, and we lived on it.
00:20We all moved to Washington to save the world.
00:23I came here to work for the FBI.
00:26Our husbands were in the government.
00:29In those days, when you got married, you usually didn't work.
00:32Only one salary in a family.
00:34We said, well, we could at least read some books and keep up.
00:37We thought we should be educated.
00:40We wanted to read something important we felt would improve our minds.
00:44Here, it's 50 cents, and it looks like a brand-new book.
00:49Way back in the 50s and the 60s and the 70s, it was quite different.
00:56I think it's still about the books.
00:59But along with it, you see, we have gone through everything together.
01:05Kennedy was shot.
01:07What a thing to come home to.
01:10I remember this Poor People's March on Washington, and they set up their tents.
01:14And David, after school, he would take a hammer and go down there.
01:19He saw things like that.
01:22Within a week, he was dead.
01:25That's just something you live with.
01:30We wound up being a kind of a support group.
01:34And I think the fact that we've been together all this time
01:37and have great affection for one another and respect for one another
01:40is more important, almost, than the books we've read.
01:43When we came together into that room for a book club meeting, here we are again.
01:48Bring your sandwich.