Archive for the 'book clubs' Category
Book Club Trouble Often Has Little to Do With Books
December 8th, 2008NYTimes – “Ms. Bowie cannot pinpoint the precise moment when disillusion replaced delight. Maybe it was the evening she tried to persuade everyone to look beyond Oprah Winfrey’s picks, “and they all said ‘What’s wrong with Oprah?’ †she said.”
Book Club
September 16th, 2007Chris Wetterich – “For two years, patrons and employees at Lincoln Library have stared into the faces of the Springfield’s homeless every day. More info on this year’s book. Now, through Together We Read, a community reading program, they can read a novel featuring a character who tries to understand how a once-successful photographer ended [...]
Book Clubs
September 15th, 2007Heidi Dolamore – “Yesterday I led a couple of book groups at the county juvenile detention facility.”
AudioBooks? Sure, Why Not?
August 14th, 2007Baltimore Sun – “Life being what it is, I will take my books where I can get them and my reading time when I can – out of the dashboard of my van, on the long ride home.”
Is Listening Cheating?
August 2nd, 2007NYT – “Janice Raspen, a librarian at an elementary school in Fredericksburg, Va., came clean with her book club a couple years ago. They were discussing “A Fine Balance,†a novel set in India in the 1970s by Rohinton Mistry and an Oprah’s Book Club pick, when she told the group — all fellow teachers [...]
