**📚 Stoner (fiction) - by john williams** **What happens when we build a life around the wrong choices—and the wrong person?** William Stoner enters university intending to study agriculture, but literature changes the direction of his life. He becomes a professor, marries Edith, falls in love with someone else, and spends much of his life caught between **love, duty, desire and circumstances he never seems fully able to escape**. At the heart of *Stoner* is perhaps one of the most painful questions about human relationships: **What happens when the person we choose to build our life with turns out to be profoundly wrong for us?** The novel explores: * ❤️ love, attraction and projection * 💔 relationships that become sources of unhappiness * 🏠 the life we imagine versus the life we actually get * 🔀 choices, compromise and missed possibilities * ⏳ how easily years can pass without us changing course * 📖 finding meaning despite an imperfect life * 🌱 what we owe ourselves * ⚰️ what makes a life meaningful And perhaps the central question: **When should we accept the life we have—and when should we have the courage to refuse it and choose differently?** 🎧 **Audiobook:** Recommended in the **Alfred Molina** narration. **Note:** Please read or listen to the book before attending.

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