Secret’s out!
Posted by: kaite stover
Or maybe not. Possibly this is news to everyone who reads this blog, especially the contributors and facilitators. I found this image worthy of a quirked smile while I was reading PostSecret this morning.
I have attended one or two book group gatherings without having read the selected title. I have even facilitated discussion of a book I haven’t read. I’ve also given pointers on how to pull the biblio-wool over readers’ eyes in workshops. (For emergency use only.)
What’s your Book Group Secret? Post below.
October 14th, 2009 at 10:34 pm
The corollary PostSecret is: Our book club never talks about the book! In honor of National Reading Group Month, I made a little video about this very phenomenon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUAPRvHaZKE
I think what keeps book clubs going is their love of books. If books (devoured, half-read, or untouched) lead them to deeper conversation about their own lives than the books themselves, that’s fine by me. (Just don’t tell my English lit students.)