A large group, although with no newbies. It seems that everyone got something from this book, relating it to past careers in speech pathology, or to teaching (We've got a big crop of current or former teachers.), although some other people also noticed that the book sometimes came across as an advertisement. The discussion touched on how children learn, how children learn language, how adults learn language, whether multi-tasking is effective, purposefully doing what's hard for you (and how caregivers and random strangers seek to help people who really need to struggle through it themselves). Carolyn told of meeting that rarest of beasts, a native Esperanto speaker. I tried to prove that literacy is not dying in this country by pointing to the popularity of the Twilight books. Which is maybe not a particularly good argument. Ruth made a plug for Cutting for Stone, which is this year's Everybody Reads book for Lake Oswego, which is putting on talks and dinners for it, but no book discussions. (So maybe literacy is dead.)