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Wed, October 28th, 2009
Twitter Book Club
Posted by: Mary Ellen
Can you talk about a book in 140 characters? You’ll have to if you join The Book Studio’s Twitter Book Club. Now six months old, the Twitter Book Club meets online once a month to talk about a recent book. Picks for the past few months have been Elizabeth Strout’s Olive Kitteridge, Lorrie Moore’s A [...]
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Mon, October 26th, 2009
Oprah goes global
Posted by: kaite stover
It’s safe to say that Oprah’s already gone global, but she’s taking on the webiverse with the upcoming discussion of Say You’re One of Them by Uwem Akpan.
On Monday, November 9, a live discussion will be simulcast from Oprah.com, CNN.com, and Facebook. Anderson Cooper will also participate in the conversation with Oprah and Uwem Akpan [...]
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Wed, October 21st, 2009
THE HISTORY OF LOVE
Posted by: gary
Today the Readers’ Advisory Section of the Wisconsin Library Association discussed a great book for our purposes: The History of Love by Nicole Krauss.
This book is such a complex overlaying of issues that to try to explain the plot becomes a challenging enterprise. Let me say that it involves Leopold Gursky, an old man now [...]
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Wed, October 21st, 2009
Nobody Puts Backlist in the Corner
Posted by: Neil Hollands
Here’s a blog concept that voracious readers and book groupers should get behind. Shelf Renewal (http://www.shelfrenewal.com/) is a new project by Chicago-area librarians Rebecca Vnuk and Karen Kleckner. I stole their cheeky tagline for the title of this blog entry. Fighting the stream of publicity for new books that are already getting plenty of attention, [...]
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Fri, October 16th, 2009
Great Group Reads: While I’m Falling
Posted by: Mary Ellen
While I’m Falling by Laura Moriarty is one of the titles that has been selected by the Women’s National Book Association as a National Reading Group Month Great Group Read. In this coming-of-age novel, Veronica’s chaotic junior year in college gets even messier when her recently-divorced mother shows up, needing a place to live. Midwest book groups [...]
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Tue, October 13th, 2009
A “Real Simple” Book Discussion
Posted by: Ted Balcom
My wife just made me aware of a new online book club provided by the editors of Real Simple magazine. Here’s how the club works: every month, one of the editors chooses four books they consider to be great for discussion and asks readers to vote on them; the title with the most votes wins. Once [...]
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Tue, October 13th, 2009
Will Book Groups Like the Winners?
Posted by: Mary Ellen
The winners of two major literary prizes, the Man Booker and the Nobel, were recently announced.
The Man Booker Prize, awarded each year to the “very best” full-length novel written by a citizen of the British Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland, went to Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall , a fictionalized biography of Thomas Cromwell. Wolf Hall’s [...]
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Sun, October 11th, 2009
Great Group Reads: The House on Fortune Street
Posted by: Mary Ellen
The House on Fortune Street by Margot Livesey is one of the Great Group Reads selected by the Women’s National Book Association Reading Group Month committee. Abigail, an actress, owns the titular London house and lives upstairs with Sean, a struggling Keats scholar. Abigail’s best friend from college, Dara, is a therapist who who occupies the garden flat. [...]
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Fri, October 9th, 2009
Hard Boiled Wonderlands
Posted by: Neil Hollands
Hard boiled detective novels and speculative fiction are not common subject matter for book groups, but that’s a dirty shame. Some of the best fiction being written these days is in the genres. A coincidence in my recent reading schedule has left me thinking about books in which these two genres coincide.
I just received Strange [...]
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Thu, October 8th, 2009
Great Group Reads: The Unit
Posted by: Mary Ellen
The Unit by Ninni Holmqvist is one of the titles that has been selected by the Women’s National Book Association as a National Reading Group Month Great Group Read. It’s a dystopian tale about a society in which some people are considered dispensable–in this case, older men and women who are childless. At age 50 for women and age 60 [...]
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Wed, October 7th, 2009
Great Group Reads: Appassionata
Posted by: Mary Ellen
Appassionata by Eva Hoffman is one of the titles that has been selected by the Women’s National Book Association as a National Reading Group Month Great Group Read. Described by the New York Times as “intelligent and affecting” and by the Washington Post as a “serious pleasure,” this novel about an American concert pianist who becomes involved with [...]
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Tue, October 6th, 2009
Words and Music
Posted by: kaite stover
I’m always looking for another group to partner with for a book discussion. I have found that groups associated with local arts organizations are one of the best and most receptive groups to approach. The arts organization gets to offer a new activity for members and the library gets to promote programs and services to [...]
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Tue, October 6th, 2009
THE DEVIL’S FEATHER
Posted by: gary
A week ago my crime fiction book discussion group started its new season with an author whose work we have been reading, one book each round. Her name is Minette Walters and we have worked our way up to her 2005 title, The Devil’s Feather.
This is a rather challenging story to read as it deals [...]
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Tue, October 6th, 2009
Wolf Hall wins the Booker Prize
Posted by: Neil Hollands
Book groups take note: Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall has won the Booker Prize for 2009.
Due out in the United States on October 13th, this is probably the most accessible novel to win the award in many years. Mantel is an experienced English writer whose work has received many awards and covered many subjects. In her early career, [...]
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Sun, October 4th, 2009
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 [...]
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Sat, October 3rd, 2009
Life Is Short
Posted by: Dan Hubbs
Life is short and there are a lot of books to read and to discuss. Novels are the most popular reading group choice and there are lots of novels to choose from. In fact, there are approximately 50,000 fiction titles published every year in the United States and about 10,000 of those are new titles. [...]
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Fri, October 2nd, 2009
Best Books of a New Century?
Posted by: Neil Hollands
The Millions website asked a panel of 56 authors and critics to name the best fiction published since the year 2000. The compiled results should be interesting fodder for book groups. How many have you read? How many has your book group discussed?
Here’s their list of the top twenty. The top five were Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections, Edward [...]
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Thu, October 1st, 2009
October is National Reading Group Month
Posted by: Mary Ellen
As I mentioned in a previous post, October is National Reading Group Month, and for the second year in a row, Book Group Buzz has been chosen by the The Women’s National Book Association as the official National Reading Group Month partner blog.
Events are planned for the WNBA’s 10 chapter cities. The signature event, a breakfast and book-signing with [...]
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Tue, September 29th, 2009
National Reading Group Month
Posted by: Mary Ellen
October is National Reading Group Month. This program of the Women’s National Book Association (WNBA) was launched in 2007 “to promote reading groups and to celebrate the joy of shared reading.” Once again, Book Group Buzz is thrilled to be chosen by the WNBA as a National Reading Group Month partner.
Here’s the 2009 list of Great Group Reads [...]
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Tue, September 29th, 2009
Saturday Samplers
Posted by: Mary Ellen
If you’re looking for something different for your book group, follow the Bernardsville Public Library’s Saturday Samplers on its blog. This group aims to seek out interesting reads beyond the usual discussion fare. This Saturday, they’ll be talking about Robert Curson’s Crashing Through, the story of entrepreneur and Olympian Mike May, blind since age three, whose vision was restored by a [...]
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