The Complete Idiot's Guide to Starting a Reading Group

by Sauer

• ISBN13: 9780028636542
• ISBN10: 0028636546
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-12-13
• Publisher: DK Publishing, Inc.
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Summary

You're no idiot, of course. You know that people across the nation are getting together, swapping ideas, and sharing their love of literature. You also know how enjoyable it is when you and a friend have read the same book and spend hours discussing it. But when it comes to actually starting or joining a reading group, you feel like you can't tell a metaphor from a simile. Don't go on reading in solitude! The Complete Idiot's Guide to Starting a Reading Group is every book-lover's guide to putting together a group and having successful discussions--or knowing where to find an existing group. In this Complete Idiot's Guide, you get:

Table of Contents

Part 1: Reading Groups: Singles Bars for the Next Century	1	(56)
To Read or Not to Read?	3	(12)
The Reading Kind: Where to Find Your Fellow Bibliophiles	15	(16)
Where Art Thou, Reading Group?	31	(12)
Ground Rules, to Thine Own Self Be True	43	(14)
Part 2: Behold, the Beauty of Discussion	57	(52)
Take Me to Your Leader, Reader	59	(12)
It Takes All the Members of a Village	71	(14)
Questions for Fire	85	(10)
Somebody Tell Me If We're Doing This Right	95	(14)
Part 3: Have We Got the Group for You	109	(78)
We're #1: The Classics Group	111	(14)
Women's Groups---Our Miss Books	125	(18)
Men's Groups---a Rare Species	143	(14)
Multicultural Musings---Exploring Cultural Identity	157	(16)
That's Kids' Stuff	173	(14)
Part 4: Tailoring Your Group Like a Fine Suit	187	(80)
Regional Book Clubs	189	(18)
Molls, Snoops, Dicks, Dupes, and a Bunch of Rotting Corpses	207	(14)
Oh, the Horror ... the Horror	221	(14)
Get Real: Nonfiction	235	(18)
People Are People, So What Should I Read?	253	(14)
Part 5: My Group Wants to Party All the Time	267	(76)
Food for Thought	269	(16)
The Moviegoers	285	(16)
The Play's the Thing	301	(14)
Of Tender Verse and Narrative Terse	315	(14)
Take a Vacation ... Bring a Book ... and the Book Club	329	(14)
Appendix
A Further Suggested Book Club Kinda Books	341	(2)
Index	343