Comments on: Secret’s out! http://bookgroupbuzz.booklistonline.com/2009/10/04/secrets-out/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:57:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: Janna Cawrse Esarey http://bookgroupbuzz.booklistonline.com/2009/10/04/secrets-out/comment-page-1/#comment-91912 Janna Cawrse Esarey Thu, 15 Oct 2009 04:34:27 +0000 http://bookgroupbuzz.booklistonline.com/?p=2906#comment-91912 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.) 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.)

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