My Bestfriend's Exorcism bookclub discussion questions

 

The Book Detectives are on another case! This book is our Chief Feminist Officers choice. We meet once a week to discuss the hour and a half worth of reading that I assign each week. Here I will be providing the discussion questions that I make for the group so hopefully your book group will be able to see and use these to have a good discussion. Please know there will be spoilers!! I will try to separate out the sections as best I can so you can read sections as well as a club. 

Beginning to Sunday Bloody Sunday 

1. The demon that possesses someone in this book is the Devil himself, what do you think about this choice? 

2. Did you ever have a birthday party as a kid where you passed out invitations? 

3. What do you think of the way Abby and Gretchen became friends?

4. Why do you think Gretchen lied about her parents being in the witness protection program?

5. What do we think of Abby and Gretchen's best friendship?

6. What do you think about the Madonna incident? 

7. Abby and Gretchen have a fight on vacation, what did you think of this?

8. Abby has a perspective shift when they help Glee find her retainer, was it a good shift?

9. Was it really just a trip or did they all experience the supernatural?

Sunday Bloody Sunday to Paranoimia 

1. We get to see Abby's home life a bit more, what do you think of the contrast between her and Gretchen's home lives?

2. What did you think of Gretchen and her mother involving Abby in their fight? 

3. What do we think of Andy?

4. Why isn't Margret standing up for her friends against her boyfriend?

5. What did you think of the help Gretchen's parents gave to Gretchen?

6. What do you think of the strange occurrences happening around Gretchen?

Paranoimia to New Sensation 

1. Do you think Margret is right saying that Gretchen ditched them first?

2. What did you think of Abby's conversation with her mom?

3. What do you think Gretchen turning the wheel and Abby still staying and helping her says about their friendship?

4. The state of Gretchen's house is really concerning, how are her parents okay living like this?

5. Does any of Gretchen's recent new symptoms makes us think she is indeed using drugs? 

6. Abby tries to talk to Gretchen's parents but it goes the way her mom warned her it would, why couldn't they just listen to her?

 

7. What do you think of Abby's solo attempts at helping Gretchen? 

8. Will their friendship really be able go recover after this?

New Sensation to Like A Prayer 

1. Gretchen isn't being treated like an outcast anymore. Why is she being accepted when normally kids are so quick to hold grudges?

2. The Lemon brothers were annoyingly interesting, do we think Christian really could see the demon haunting Gretchen? 

3. Abby gets a hold of Gretchen's day book, what did you think of the transition from her bubbly writing to the chaos later in the journal? 

4. What do you think Margaret's and Glee's latest obsessions mean?

5. Abby tries to call Andy Solomon but gets Gretchen telling her that the person there isn't her, how will Abby be able to stop them?

6. Why did they include the trip to the donation center in the story? What did that add?

7. We discover that Gretchen never called Andy, who has she been talking to then?

8. What do we think of Abby's mom? 

9. That last scene with Glee was disturbing. How has she changed so much?

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