Friday, July 31, 2009

Book Club 101: Five Reading Tips


Shelley Blanton-Stroud offers these tips to help uncage discussion about books at book club gatherings. First, though, is to actually read the book:
  1. Look for places in the book where you are confused. Write down and bring questions about these passages to your group.
  2. Look for places in the book where you love the way the author writes. Write down a favorite passage or two to share and discuss. Ask yourself why you love this.
  3. Look for places in the book where you dislike the way the author writes. Write down one or two of these spots to share and discuss. Ask yourself why you hate this. What is the author trying to do? Why doesn't it work for you?
  4. Look for places in the book where it connects to another book your group has read, or a book you have read that you would like to recommend to the group.
  5. Look for places in the book where it connects to something happening in the real world today and sheds light on it.

Thursday, July 30, 2009

Next BBC meeting is Friday, August 21st


Are you ready for those early days of Rock and Roll?

We’ll be celebrating old Beatles tunes and a little Clapton while we discuss Wonderful Tonight at my house on Friday the 21st. Mark your calendar. Should be fun.

Carolyn

Saturday, July 18, 2009

Fall-Winter schedule

Our up-coming schedule:

Sept. @ Barbara's "The Tortilla Curtain"
Oct. @ Priscilla's "Loving Frank"
Nov. @ Sherry's "Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World"
Jan. @ Lynn's "Bitter is the New Black"
Feb. @ Christi's "This I Believe"
Mar. @ Kimberly's "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society"

Monday, July 13, 2009

The votes are in!

Here are the next six books we'll be reading:

Loving Frank
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World
Bitter is the New Black
This I Believe
The Tortilla Curtain

All of these titles are available at the library. And all, except for "Bitter is the New Black," are also available in CD/audible format.

Two of our selections made the Top Book Group Favorites of 2008 list at Reading Group Choices.

A big thanks to everyone who provided suggestions.