# 239 - Book Club: Where You Go is Not Who You’ll Be By Frank Bruni

Wife of the Party

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Comedy, Self-improvement, Comedy Interviews, Education

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🗓️ 8 September 2022

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Today, I sit down with my friends, Cathy and Kirsten to book club the book “Where You Go is Not Who You’ll Be” by Frank Bruni. We talk about our kids choosing colleges, our favorite quotes from the book, what to do about low SAT scores, frat flu, and much more!

Our next book club will be “For You When I Am Gone: Twelve Essential Questions to Tell a Life Story” by Steve Leder

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0:00.0	book club day and we read where you go is not who you'll be. And Kirsten said it best. The title
0:07.9	is what the book is about. It is a very data and fact heavy book about colleges and the misconceptions
0:18.5	about what colleges are quote the best and what colleges are are the and he kind of factually
0:26.5	describes what colleges are the best for different reasons and that there are so many reasons that
0:33.0	this list of best may not even apply to your family depending on what your kids want to do or who
0:38.4	they are. It's a really great book for debunking this mystery that there's only a handful of good
0:44.0	schools. It's a great book for for people who are kind of swimming in the stream of my kid has to
0:52.5	get into the best college to kind of pause and say the word best is relative. It depends on who
1:00.5	your kid is and what their goals are and what your family's goals are. It's kind of a reality check.
1:07.4	I guess that's the best way to say it. It was a great book. It was easy to read. It is fact and
1:13.7	data heavy. So sometimes my brain was like and blah blah blah, data data data data. But that's not
1:19.8	to say it wasn't a bad book. It was a it was a good book and I think it's a really good book for
1:24.0	anybody who's starting the process of getting their kid into college. It's a great reality check
1:30.9	book. So highly recommend it. We have a good discussion about the book and about our kids going to
1:37.3	college and here's just starting the process of college applications. So yeah and it's always great
1:44.5	to chat with those two ladies. It's always good to hear what they say about a book. Okay next book
1:50.4	a book is called for you when I am gone. 12 essential questions to tell a life story and it's by
1:57.6	Stephen Letter or leader led for you when I am gone. Kirsten found this book and it's basically a book
2:06.7	as she described it that challenges you to evaluate your value system and so put some
2:14.7	stories in writing for your family or whomever for after you have passed away. Something that you
2:22.2	can leave to them. Obviously I'm not planning on passing away anytime soon. I'm only 52 but I
2:27.6	thought it would be a great exercise and we've never read a book that was kind of like a workbook
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