The Book Group Book: A Thoughtful Guide to Forming and Enjoying a Stimulating Book Discussion Group

Book Overview

Offers advice on starting and running a successful book discussion group and covers how to organize meetings, select books, stimulate discussion, and attract new members. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1556524129
• ISBN13: 9781556524127
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Chicago Review Pr
• Length: 395 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 0.8" x 5.0"

Customer Reviews

Great resource for book clubs

If you're planning to start a book club, this book is an excellent resource. It includes several suggestions from established book clubs as well as book lists.

3rd edition out, amazon does not have yet

.... "It has seventeen new essays and 37 new book lists added to the second edition mentioned here. Forty six essays describe how individual groups are organized and portray thier strengths, weaknesses, and unique characters. Special-interest groups, groups with professional leaders or sponsors, new groups, and groups that have been meeting for decades are all represented. Readers discover what makes a good group tick, from how to organize meetings, select members and books, and stimulate discussion to turning a flagging group around. More than three dozen reading lists supplied by the groups themselves help to provide insight and inspiration for all who currently belong to a book group or are tempted to start a group of thier own....

The Book Group Book is good

A Thoughtful Guide to Forming & Enjoying a Stimulating Book Discussion Group with essayss written, often collectively, by members of many & varied groups together with a What To Read section. With a foreword that only Margaret Atwood could write, this collection of quirky, humorous & serious essays gathered from book groups around the country, enchants, entertains & had me plotting how to start a group out of our local library. A really neat read. ................

More than a guide, it contains its own wonderful stories

I was looking for information about starting a book club when I found this book. At first I thought it would be useless because I was looking for guidelines, and this is a collection of essays. However, I was pleasantly surprised to find that the essays here not only provided the information I was looking for but were enjoyable reading in their own merit. The collection reads like a book of short stories. The compiled book lists are also very helpful.