Or, is the team struggling with the last few books youve read. To kill a mockingbird harperperennial modern classics by. Finding the right book club book is easy when you follow these helpful tips. Classic book club phillipsburg free public library. No matter the genre, age, notoriety, or length of the book of the moment, book club questions can kickstart or enhance your group discussion. As a member or leader of a book club, you are likely to be reading books on a wide variety of topics, both fiction and nonfiction. Book discussion groups at your neighborhood library the. Is the group on a roll and ready to tackle that long thick book youve been talking about for months. General book club questions for study and discussion. See the list of other books in our discussion group, and check out the other groups. A book club for those of us who want to readreread all of the classics.
George orwells dystopian classic blends political and science fiction into a chilling panorama of highlevel surveillance and manipulation. Hillsdale library and hollywood library, plus quarterly classics at capitol hill library. Sounds like life of pi, but in this tall tale form the seas, parts of the story are retold in his adult. Check the online calendar of events for the book group discussion dates and titles.
Discover book depositorys selection of the best books online for every book club. Bantam dell publishing group bantam dell offers both discussion guides and author chat, a program that provides book clubs the opportunity to have a featured author participate in an upcoming. Check out the list of books available to be discussed in our book groups. Score a book s total score is based on multiple factors, including the number of people who have voted for it and how highly those voters ranked the book. Monthly book groups meet at many library locations. A book group must have a regular monthly meeting date in order to qualify. See more ideas about my books, books and books to read.
An 11yearold boy named michael boards a ship crossing the indian ocean and the suez canal. Click here for a version of this list that i continually update with new books top ten tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by the broke and the bookish that asks bloggers to create top ten lists on a variety of bookish topics. And now, according to research undertaken a few years ago, there are tens of thousands of groups meeting regularly in the uk reading everything from literary classics to technical manuals. Of course, if you are in a book group, choosing what to read next can be a serious matter as not every book has subject matter that can really be dicussed. The classics i forgot to read book club in choosing our classics weve tried to select titles that had some visibility among readers, but were not necessarily included in the standard high school english class. The phantom of the opera, a christmas carol, persuasion, t. Meet other local readers to read and discuss the great classics of literature.
This book you are about to enjoy is an independent resource to supplement the original book, enhancing your experience of to kill a mockingbird. What made you suggest it to the group for discussion. These literary staples are sure to lead to great discussion. Online book clubs public library city of san diego.
Glitter and glue by kelly corrigan good gettingtoknow your group book. Book discussion groups meet according to a regular schedule, unless otherwise noted. Groups receive enough copies of their selected title to allow everyone in the group to read the same book at the same time. Choose one question at a time and toss it out to the group. A world war ii story of survival, resilien laura hillenbrand laura hillenbrand. Eric asimov, chief wine critic of the new york times, believes great wine is a true expression of a terroir with a story to tell about where it came from, both geologically and culturally, and about the people who shepherded the transformation of grapes to wine and that year in history. Classics professors book group for vets goes national. A great books discussion concentrating on literary classics both traditional and modern meeting at 7 p. Each month, the selected book is available for purchase at kings bookstore. Hello all, i hope your new years celebrations were wonderful. Start date january 5, 2011 finish date january 31, 2011 discussion this month book discussions. Stay in the loop with reading group choices, get notified about the release of our print editions, and receive handy materials from our publishing partners. Our latest prize book is ask again, yes by mary beth keane, an extraordinary novel that is now available in paperback.
There are adult groups, studentled groups, motherdaughter groups, fatherson groups, and parentchild groups, to name just a few. This novel combines a beautiful love story and discussion. In addition to our corporate reading group guide directory, visit the individual publishers websites for a wealth of resources for your book groups. It can be hard to find discussion guides for childrens books on the web. Shop online for our annual print editions, which include book overviews, suggested discussion topics and discussion questions for all our annual books. This post is a reminder that well be meeting to discuss charles dickens bleak house on wednesday, january 18, 2012. Whether you belong to a book club or not, this is a great list of book recommendations and books that are fun to discuss. While discussing books is our passion we also have active forums for talking about poetry, short stories, writing and authors. I have been a part of one or more book clubs for over 20 years, and i have learned a few things about what makes a book club successful and how to get your book club talking. The history book club, the reading for pleasure book club, reading the detectives, catching up on classics and. Posts about book discussion written by rebeccareid.
Ten short books that will spark lively book club discussion. This list contains old books, modern classics, contemporary fiction. Whether you read just one book or you become a regular, please join us for a casual, thoughtprovoking discussion of classic titles from a diverse range of authors. I tend to think all book club selections should be on the short side. This book group discusses literary classic titles from around the world. I commented to the group that it felt like a nanowrimo novel that had. Whether you are discussing characters and their actions, setting, theme, or images, having a guide to questions that will. The discussion title for april will be the house on mango street by sandra cisneros. Classics professors book group for vets goes national july 05, 2018 by julie bonette professor roberta stewart, at left near back wall, leads a discussion on homers odyssey during a workshop that draws parallels between the epic poem and modern veterans experiences. Classics book group meets the second saturday of the month at 11.
The reading selections are mostly fiction choices with a sprinkling of nonfiction, genre fiction, and classics with an emphasis on books appealing to an eclectic taste as well as those with interesting points of discussion. Book discussion groups falls church, va official website. See book group howtos to learn more about starting your own book discussion group. A list of classic and current book club favorite reads. Websites with book discussion questions for kids books. In mondays book club 101 post, we talked about how a fabulous book club discussion starts with the right bookand it takes more than a great book to make a great book club novel to gather this list of 40 book club favorites, i polled you on the mmd facebook page, asked you on twitter, and combed through your suggestions here. A users guide to the chakra system llewellyns new age serieswheels of life. Registration is not currently open to new book groups. Actress and activist emma watson runs our shared shelf, a feminist book club with over 100,000 members. Keep the mood of the club in mind when selecting the book.
Book discussion group descriptions great books foundation discussion series. This bets on pick is a gorgeous and generous portrait of the daily intimacies of marriage and the power of forgiveness, as two families try to stay afloat amid a resounding tragedy. In mondays book club 101 post, we talked about how a fabulous book club discussion starts with the right book and it takes more than a great book to make a great book club novel to gather this list of 40 book club favorites, i polled you on the mmd facebook page, asked you on twitter, and combed through your suggestions here. The classics book club meets the second wednesday of every month at kings books. The project of this book club would be to read all the corny stuff from the. Weve also sampled a range of genres, from mystery to comedy to streamofconsciousness. Select a number of questions, write each on an index card, and pass them out. Promote an atmosphere of discussion for groups assist in the study of the book, either individually or corporately explore unseen realms of the book as never seen before.
Each month the group chooses a new book that deals with themes of race, gender, and justice. The classics i forgot to read book club in choosing our classics weve tried to select titles that had some visibility among readers, but were not necessarily. And classic literature book lists of western and nonwestern. On wednesday, march 17, 2010, we are discussing ethan frome by edith wharton in the large study room at the harnish building. Discussion groups classics the ancient grecoroman classical literature reading group classics will meet the first wednesday of every month from 6. View the complete schedule with book selections for 20192020. We try to keep our membership costs affordable for. Forbes library book discussion groups forbes library. Originally serialized in the strand magazine from august 1901 to april 1902, the hound of the baskervilles is set largely on dartmoor in devon in englands west country and tells the story of an attempted murder inspired by the legend of a fearsome, diabolical hound of supernatural origin.
I have two cardinal rules in selecting the best book club books. Were a nationwide nonprofit organisation with a 46year track record. We read a variety of classic works, from the ancient to modern. Both funny and moving, this book made me reflect for weeks on the inexorable march of time. The kansas city public library features book groups on a regular basis. I hadnt read ethan frome before, but i had read some other wharton works and i was instrumental in leading a recent books blog tour of edith wharton.
With more and more parents taking on the leading of childrens book groups or parentchild book clubs, there is. A memoir and manifesto by eric asimov william morrow, october 16, 2012. Suggest books that your group has read that led to a lively discussion, whether people loved or hated them. If youve ever read, wanted to read, or are currently reading what is. So, whether our picks are already gathering dust on your bookshelves or this is. The classics club has been renamed the bucket list book club, and is led by former loganberry staffer and writer susan petrone, who already has two novels under her belt a body at rest and throw like a woman. If there are classics you have always meant to read someday, or if you read them in school before you were ready to appreciate them, now is the time to enjoy them with other adult readers.
At my library we have a parentchild book discussion group, but the guidelines found in this article can apply to any group with children as participants. Does the author use any narrative devices like flashbacks or multiple voices in telling the story. While you occasionally want to read the hot new bestseller with your book club, the truth is that a lot people. We have been meeting in tacoma since 1994 and at kings books since may 2011. See the tour in retrospect for bloggers input on some of her works and see the. We read and talk about both fiction and nonfiction books as a community. Its a long book and i admit i still have quite a ways to go on it.
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