About This Book Club Site We created this book club site as an information repository for readers searching for books and author information, and as a promotional tool for authors, who want to let readers know that their books exist. Many book club sites serve a single purpose. They list books of a certain type, [...]
Just wanted to have a bit of fun with this video. If you’d like to know more about my book, Madame Zee, or the one I was reading in the bath, Delivery, by Betty Jane Hegerat, please click on the links below. Madame Zee by Pearl Luke Delivery by Betty Jane Hegerat
Book Club Activities: Serious and Silly By Brenda Brooks Serious book club activities should seek to heighten an appreciation for books, authors, and literature in general. The sole mandate of silly book club activities, however, is to amuse yourselves at any cost, regardless of all of the above. Some activities, with slight tweaking, may be [...]
Book Club Discussion Tips Anything that generates conversation will provide a desirable path into a book club discussion, so open-ended questions are useful. One individual in your group may be interested in the psychology of characters. Another may focus on historical detail. Someone else may approach the book from a feminist perspective. Multiple interests and [...]
Book Club Invitations: More Spice Please By Brenda Brooks The two most common responses to book club invitations are as follows: Grateful and enthusiastic acceptance followed by devoted attendance and painstaking readings of each designated book, or, grateful and enthusiastic acceptance (What a swell idea! What time? What book? I’ll bring my spicy wings dish!), [...]
This page contains variety of book club lists. BookClubBuddy.com has a diverse audience, including those who prefer literary fiction and those who enjoy a good romance or fantasy title, so our lists reflect that. One of the most exciting benefits of being in a book club is the discovery of new and engaging books that might [...]
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Believing Cedric by Mark Lavorato gives us something new–a 58-year-old protagonist who travels through time (not because he wants to) to physically revisit moments in his past. Moments that changed the course of his life and moments when he touched others. We learn about these moments through the eyes of those he revisits. It’s an [...]
Set on Quadra Island on Canada’s west coast where a desperate grandmother has fled with her infant granddaughter under her arm, Delivery explores the emotional maelstrom of an unplanned pregnancy, and an abrupt mid-life transition. Lynn Howard has just begun to appreciate the freedom of her new single status and the empty nest when Heather, her [...]
Book Trailer for Monoceros by Suzette Mayr Coach House Books, 2011. 220 pp. A seventeen-year-old boy, bullied and heartbroken, hangs himself. And although he felt terribly alone, his suicide changes everyone around him. Despite the premise, this is a funny book. Watch the trailer to see clips from a few of the reviews. The wide [...]