Reading Group Questions for Household Baggage: The Moving Life of a Soldier’s Wife by Marna Krajeski (2006 Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing).

1. What were your reactions and emotions after reading the book?

2. Did any of the author’s responses to situations affect the way you now view and respond to similar situations? Did any story cause you to remember a particular incident in your past? Which one?

3. What was your favorite story? Why? Which hit home the most in terms of your own experiences? Do you recall any “Aha” moments as you read this book?

4. How do you think this book presents military family life to the civilian population? Accurate or distorted? In what way?

5. Has Household Baggage caused you to see your situation in a more humorous light?

6. What made you want to read this book?

7. How do you relate to the author after reading Household Baggage?

8. What question would you like to ask the author now that you have read it?

9. In your opinion, what was Marna Krajeski’s purpose for writing this book? Did she achieve it? Why or why not?