Discussion Questions for The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating

 Discussion Questions for Book Club, From Marcia:

The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey

Book Club Group Discussion Questions for Monday, February 20, 2023 at 1pm.

These questions have Spoil Alerts; so, reading the book first is always my priority.

Also review these websites prior to Book Club discussion:

https://www.elisabethtovabailey.net/

https://elisabethtovabailey.net/files/WildSnailDiscussionQuestions.pdf

Make sure to scroll down and visit the other links as well including a recording of a snail eating vs a human eating, video of a snail moving across moss.

The author has listed the Book Club Group Discussion questions grouping into categories:

Reading Experience.

The Snail & Natural History.

Illness & Health.

Final Questions.

Again, Spoil Alerts when reading these questions.

All 15 questions are on the website.  Here are the first four questions to get you started--under your Reading Experience:

1. There are two protagonists, the snail and the human.  Did you find yourself drawn to one more than the other?  Does that say something about you as a person? 
2. Which chapter was your favorite and why?  Was there a particular phrase, sentence, or idea that really intrigued you?
3. Did you find yourself reading the book quickly to see what would happen next? Or slowly so that it wouldn’t end?
4. Although the book covers a year of snail observations, the author notes in the epilogue that the narrative actually weaves together that year along with research the author did years later.  If you think of the story in these two layers, the direct observations and the research years, does it change or deepen your understanding of the narrative and of the bond the author formed with the snail?