Counting blinks is wild. Reminds me of when my sister tried to catch her ex lying by watching his eyes during a phone call, and she was dead wrong about the whole thing. People look down when they're embarrassed too, not just when they're lying.

What does a real fight look like in a book club though? Like is it yelling or is it just two people going back and forth while everyone else watches? Because a minimum fight quota sounds great on paper but I can see it turning into the loudest guy just picking the most shocking book every month to get a rise out of everyone. The part about feeling tricked is the key thing here. Your wife's club is really saying they want books that make a promise and then break it, and your club might just be picking books that never made a promise in the first place. So my question is, when was the last time someone in your group finished a book and actually got mad about it?