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Book Discussion Club From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search A book discussion club is a group of people who meet to discuss a book or books that they have read and express their opinions, likes, dislikes, etc. It is more often called simply a book club, a term that is also used to describe a book sales club, which can cause confusion. Other frequently used terms to describe a book discussion club include reading group, book group, and book discussion group. Book discussion clubs may meet in private homes, libraries, bookstores, online forums, pubs, and in cafes or restaurants over meals or drinks. Contents [hide] 1 Single-title clubs 2 Multi-title clubs 2.1 Open loans 2.2 Catch and release 3 Online clubs 4 Broadcast clubs 5 Organizations 6 Book discussion clubs in fiction 6.1 Literature 6.2 Films 6.3 Television 7 See also 8 References 9 External links [edit] Single-title clubs A single-title club is one in which people discuss a particular title that every person in the group has read at the same time. Clearly, the club must somehow decide ahead of time what that title will be. Most often, that title will be a new release, and it is expected that each member buy a personal copy. If it is a book discussion club that meets at a library, the title may be a new release or an older title. If they choose, each member may borrow a copy of the book from the library. One of the problems with these clubs is that some members regard them as opportunities for social contact and conversation veering off onto a wide variety of non-literary topics, while others hope to engage in serious literary analysis focussed on the book in question and related works. Still others suggest a book not because they are interested in it from a literary point-of-view but because they think it will offer them an opportunity to make points of personal interest to them. Different expectations and education/skill levels may lead to conflicts and disappointments in clubs of this kind. [edit] Multi-title clubs The characteristics of a multi-title club are such that each member may be reading different titles from each other at any given time. What distinguishes this from any group of unrelated people reading different things from each other is that each title is expected to be read by the next member in a serial fashion. [edit] Open loans Open loans imply that the books in question are free to be loaned among the population with the expectation of getting them back eventually. Instead of one member deciding what everyone will read, with all the cost implications of acquiring that title, these clubs usually involve circulating books they already own. Each book is introduced with a short precis. This offers members the advantage of previewing a work before committing
to read. It has the effect of narrowing the focus of the dialogue so that book and reader are more quickly and more accurately matched up. The sequential nature of the process implies that within a short time, three to five people may have read the same title, which is the perfect amount for a worthy conversation. [edit] Catch and release Catch and release imply that actual ownership of the book transfers each iteration with no expectation of the book returning to the original owner. The mechanism of transfer may include a personal face to face hand off, sending the items though the mail, or most remarkably, leaving the book in a public place with the expectation that unknown future readers will find it there. All three methods are utilized with BookCrossing. Participants use a website and a system of unique identification numbers to track released items as they migrate through a world-wide community. The interaction is largely web-centric, but it does not exclude face-to-face gatherings, each of which can take on the traits of other book discussion clubs. [edit] Online clubs With the challenge that not all members of a club can regularly meet at an appointed place and time, and the rise of the Internet, a new form of book discussion club has emerged online. Online clubs exist in the form of Internet forums, Yahoo Groups, e-mail mailing lists, dedicated websites, and even telephone conference calls. Also in the category of social networks, these online clubs are made up of members of a variety of reading interests and often approach book discussion in different ways, e.g. academic discussion, pleasure-reading discussion, personal connection and reaction to books members read. [edit] Broadcast clubs A broadcast club is one in which a television, radio, or podcast show features a regular segment that presents a discussion of a book. The segment is announced in advance so that viewers or listeners may read the book prior to the broadcast discussion. Some notable broadcast book discussion clubs include: "Oprah's Book Club", a segment of the American television show The Oprah Winfrey Show hosted by Oprah Winfrey "Book Club of the Air", a segment of NPR's American radio show Talk of the Nation hosted by Ray Suarez "Good Morning America Book Club", a segment of ABC's American television show Good Morning America "Despierta Leyendo (Wake Up Reading)", a segment of Univision's American Spanish-language television show ¡Despierta América! (Wake Up America) hosted by Jorge Ramos "Richard & Judy Book Club", a segment of Channel 4's British television show Richard & Judy hosted by Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan Bookclub, a British radio show on the BBC Radio 4 station hosted by James Naughtie First Tuesday Book Club, an Australian television show on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation network
hosted by Jennifer Byrne "Jonny's Book Club", a segment of the weekly podcast Gay Pimpin' with Jonny McGovern hosted by Jonny McGovern [edit] Organizations Association of Book Group Readers and Leaders (AGBRL), also known as the Association of Professional Book Club Facilitators, is a cooperative information clearinghouse for avid readers, both individuals and those in book discussion clubs. Its founder and director is Rachel W. Jacobsohn, author of The Reading Group Handbook. The organization can be reached at P.O. Box 885 Highland Park, IL 60035. Great Books Foundation is a nonprofit educational organization established in 1947 that publishes collections of classic and modern literature for use in book discussion clubs. It also offers workshops in conducting book discussions. Library of Congress Center for the Book is a program of the Library of Congress' Library Services division that promotes community-wide book discussion groups through its "One Book" project. [edit] Book discussion clubs in fiction [edit] Literature Xingu (1916) a short story by Edith Wharton The Stepford Wives (1972) a novel by Ira Levin ...And Ladies of the Club (1982) a novel by Helen Hooven Santmyer The Book Class (1984) a novel by Louis Auchincloss Bloodhounds (1996) a novel by Peter Lovesey Coast Road (1998) a novel by Barbara Delinsky Sew Deadly (1998) a novel by Jean Hager The Book Borrower (1999) a novel by Alice Mattison The Book Club (1999) a novel by Mary Alice Monroe Murder in Volume (2000) a novel by D. R. Meredith (first in the Murder by the Yard series) By Hook or by Book (2000) a novel by D. R. Meredith (second in the Murder by the Yard series) Playing with Light (2000) a novel by Beatriz Rivera The Dead of Midnight (2001) a novel by Catherine Hunter Murder Past Due (2001) a novel by D. R. Meredith (third in the Murder by the Yard series) The Used Women's Book Club (2003) a novel by Paul Bryers Book Club: Books Are Their Life and Their Life Is a Book (2003) a novel by Curtis Bunn Pure Fiction (2003) a novel by Julie Highmore Angry Housewives Eating Bon-bons (2003) a novel by Lorna Landvik Vinyl Cafe Diaries (2003) a novel by Stuart McLean The Reading Group (2003) a novel by Elizabeth Noble Little Children (2004) a novel by Tom Perrotta The Jane Austen Book Club (2004) a novel by Karen Joy Fowler He Had It Coming (2004) a novel by Camika Spencer Murder of the Month (2005) a novel by Elizabeth C. Main Tome of Death (2005) a novel by D. R. Meredith (fourth in the Murder by the Yard series) [edit] Films Scent of Love, a 2003 South Korean adaptation of the novel by Kim Ha-in directed by Lee Jeong-wook Little Children, a 2006 adaptation of Perrotta's novel directed by Todd Field The Jane Austen Book Club, a 2007 adaptation of Fowler's novel directed by Robin Swicord [edit] Television "The Couch", a 1994 episode (season 6, number 5) of the American situation comedy Seinfeld "Books", a 2001 episode (season 1, number 2) of the British situation comedy The Savages The Book Group, a 2001-2002 British situation comedy series "Wedding Balls", a 2002 episode (season 4, number 22) of the American situation comedy Will & Grace "About a Book Club", a 2003 episode (season 1, number 5) of the American situation comedy Hope & Faith "The Book Club", a 2004 episode (season 1, number 4) of the American children's series Unfabulous "The Book of Love", a 2004 episode (season 5, number 12) of the British situation comedy My Family "Breaking Out Is Hard to Do", a 2005 episode (season 4, number 9) of the American animated series Family Guy "A Tale of Two Cities", a 2006 episode (season 3, number 1) of the American drama series Lost [edit] See also Literature Circles Readers' advisory [edit] References Healy, Anna (February/March 2002). "Giving Readers a Voice: Book Discussion Groups". Book Links 11 (4). American Library Association. Retrieved on 2007-10-02. Jacobsohn, Rachel W. (1998). The Reading Group Handbook, Revised Edition, New York: Hyperion. ISBN 0-786-88324-3. Jacobsohn, Rachel. "Ten Tips for Starting and Running a Successful Book Club". Retrieved on 2007-10-02. Laskin, David; Hughes, Holly (1995). The Reading Group Book. New York: Plume. ISBN 0-452-27201-7. Loevy, Diana (2006). The Book Club Companion. New York: Berkley Books. ISBN 0-425-21009-X. Moore, Ellen; Stevens, Kira (2004). Good Books Lately. New York: St.
Martin's Griffin. ISBN 0-312-30961-9. Saal, Rollene (1995). The New York Public Library Guide to Reading Groups. New York: Three Rivers Press. ISBN 0-517-88357-0. Sauer, Patrick (1999). The Complete Idiot's Guide to Starting a Reading Group. Indianapolis: Alpha Books. ISBN 0-028-63654-6. Slezak, Ellen, Ed. (2000). The Book Group Book, Third Edition, Chicago: Chicago Review Press. ISBN 1-556-52412-9. Farr, C (2005). Reading Oprah: how Oprah’s book club changed the way America reads. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press. [edit] External links ALA Professional Tips Wiki "Book Discussion Groups" article American Library Association Public Programs Office Book Discussion Series list of book discussion programs developed by the ALA The Book Club Queen provides book reviews and information about starting and maintaining books discussion clubs BookFirenzeClub.comPost your book reviews and find out what others think of the books they've read Booksprouts.com Resource for choosing books and starting a book club or reading group online BookTalk.org online reading group with live author chats The Dark And Stormy Book Club blog-based book discussion group with podcast Great Books Foundation the organization's official web site How To Start A Book Club article on About.com KidsReads Book Clubs information for children wishing to start a book discussion club Library of Congress Center for the Book the program's official web site Mother Daughter Book Club Age-appropriate reading lists, book reviews, author interviews, meeting ideas and more for Mother Daughter Book Clubs Nancy Pearl's Book Lust Wiki community site based on the Book Lust series of books One Book, One College: Common Reading Programs list of college-wide book discussion clubs Reader's Circle directory of local book discussion clubs The Reading Club articles about starting and running book discussion clubs Reading Group Choices resources for existing book discussion clubs Reading Group Gold resources for existing book discussion clubs, including contests and access to early copies of new books Reading Group Guides summaries of books with discussion questions for use by book discussion clubs Talk of the Nation Bookclub a list of past shows Talkphoria organizes live book discussion groups, held via free telephone conference calls Waterboro Public Library Resources For Reading Groups information useful to book discussion clubs ZBookClub Online Book Clubs online book discussions organized by title Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_discussion_club" Categories: Clubs and societies | Reading | Book promotion
Oprah's Book Club From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Oprah's Book Club is a book discussion club segment of the American talk show The Oprah Winfrey Show, highlighting books chosen by host Oprah Winfrey. Winfrey started the book club in 1996, selecting a new novel for viewers to read and discuss each month. Because of the book club's wide popularity, many obscure titles have become very popular bestsellers, increasing sales by as many as a million copies at the height of the book club's popularity; this occurrence is known colloquially as the Oprah effect.[1] The book club has also been connected to several well known literary controversies such as Jonathan Franzen's public dissatisfaction with his novel The Corrections having been chosen by Winfrey, and the now infamous incident of James Frey's memoir, A Million Little Pieces, a 2005 selection, being outed as largely fabricated. Contents [hide] 1 History 2 Influence 3 Controversies 4 Oprah's Book Club selections 5 References 5.1 Footnotes 5.2 Further reading 6 External links [edit] History The book club's first selection in September 1996 was the recently published novel The Deep End of the Ocean by Jacquelyn Mitchard. Winfrey's choices averaged one new book a month for the next six years. Winfrey discontinued the book club for one year in 2002, stating that she could not keep up with the required reading while still searching for contemporary novels that she enjoyed.[2] After its revival in 2003, books were selected on a more limited basis (three or four a year) [edit] Influence In Reading with Oprah: The Book Club That Changed America, Kathleen Rooney describes Winfrey as "a serious American intellectual who pioneered the use of electronic media, specifically television and the Internet, to take reading—a decidedly non-technological and highly individual act—and highlight its social elements and uses in such a way to motivate millions of erstwhile non-readers to pick up books." Business Week stated: Perhaps the most astonishing aspect of the Oprah phenomenon is how outsized her power is compared with that of other market movers. Some observers suggest that Jon Stewart of Comedy Central's The Daily Show could be No. 2. Other proven arm-twisters include Fox News's Sean Hannity, National Public Radio's Terry Gross, radio personality Don Imus, and CBS' 60 Minutes. But no one comes close to Oprah's clout: Publishers estimate that her power to sell a book is anywhere from 20 to 100 times that of any other media personality.[3] [edit] Controversies Many literary critics have criticized Winfrey's book selections as overly sentimental. The most notable of these criticisms came from Jonathan Franzen, whose book The Corrections was selected in 2001. After the announcement was made, he expressed distaste with being in the company of other Oprah's Book Club authors, saying in an interview that Winfrey
had "picked some good books, but she's picked enough schmaltzy, one-dimensional ones that I cringe, myself, even though I think she's really smart and she's really fighting the good fight."[4] Oprah suspended the club for a year shortly after Franzen's criticism.[2] In late 2005 and early 2006, Oprah's Book Club was again embroiled in controversy. Winfrey selected James Frey's A Million Little Pieces for the September 2005 selection. Pieces is a book billed as a memoir—a true account of Frey's life as an alcoholic, drug addict, and criminal. It became the Book Club's greatest selling book up to that point, and many readers spoke of how the account helped free them from drugs as well. But the additional attention focused on Frey's memoir soon led to critics questioning the validity of Frey's supposedly true account, especially regarding his treatment while in a rehabilitation facility and his stories of time spent in jail. The Smoking Gun did a particularly thorough investigation of Frey's past. Initially, Frey convinced Larry King that the embellishments in his book were of a sort that could be found in any literary memoir; Winfrey encouraged debate about how creative non-fiction should be classified, and cited the inspirational impact Frey's work had had on so many of her viewers. But as more accusations against the book surfaced, Winfrey invited Frey on the show to find out directly from him whether he had lied to her and her viewers. During a heated live televised debate, Winfrey forced Frey to admit that he had indeed lied about spending time in jail, and that he had no idea whether he had two root canals without painkillers or not, despite devoting several pages to describing them in excruciating detail. Winfrey then brought out Frey's publisher Nan Talese to defend her decision to classify the book as a memoir, and forced Talese to admit that she had done nothing to check the book's veracity, despite the fact that her representatives had assured Winfrey's staff that the book was indeed non-fiction and described it as "brutally honest" in a press release. The media feasted over the televised showdown. David Carr of The New York Times wrote: "Both Mr. Frey and Ms. Talese were snapped in two like dry winter twigs."[5] New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd quipped sarcastically, "It was a huge relief, after our long national slide into untruth and no consequences, into Swift boating and swift bucks, into W.'s delusion and denial, to see the Empress of Empathy icily hold someone accountable for lying,"[6] and the Washington Post's Richard Cohen was so impressed by the confrontation that he crowned Winfrey "Mensch of the Year."[7] The incident was later satirized in the South Park episode "A Million Little Fibers" which features the character Towlie attempting to pass himself off as the human Steven McTowelie rather than a towel, to make his memoirs more marketable. [edit] Oprah's Book Club selections Date Title Author 1996 September The Deep End of the Ocean Jacquelyn Mitchard October Song of Solomon Toni Morrison November The Book of Ruth Jane Hamilton December She's Come Undone Wally Lamb 1997 February Stones from the River Ursula Hegi April The Rapture of Canaan Sheri Reynolds May The Heart of a Woman Maya Angelou June Songs In Ordinary Time Mary McGarry Morris September The Meanest Thing To Say Bill Cosby September A Lesson Before Dying Ernest J. Gaines October A Virtuous Woman Kaye Gibbons October Ellen Foster Kaye Gibbons December The Treasure Hunt Bill Cosby December The Best Way to Play Bill Cosby 1998 January Paradise Toni Morrison March Here on Earth Alice Hoffman April Black and Blue Anna Quindlen May Breath, Eyes, Memory Edwidge Danticat June I Know This Much Is True Wally Lamb September What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day Pearl Cleage October Midwives Chris Bohjalian December Where the Heart Is Billie Letts 1999 January Jewel Bret Lott February The Reader Bernhard Schlink March The Pilot's Wife Anita Shreve May White Oleander Janet Fitch June Mother of Pearl Melinda Haynes September Tara Road Maeve Binchy Oct River, Cross My Heart Breena Clarke November Vinegar Hill A. Manette Ansay December A Map of the World Jane Hamilton 2000 January Gap Creek Robert Morgan February Daughter of Fortune Isabel
Allende March Back Roads Tawni O'Dell April The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison May While I Was Gone Sue Miller June The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver August Open House Elizabeth Berg September Drowning Ruth Christina Schwarz November House of Sand and Fog Andre Dubus III 2001 January We Were the Mulvaneys Joyce Carol Oates March Icy Sparks Gwyn Hyman Rubio May Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail Malika Oufkir June Cane River Lalita Tademy September The Corrections Jonathan Franzen November A Fine Balance Rohinton Mistry 2002 January Fall on Your Knees Ann-Marie MacDonald April Sula Toni Morrison 2003 June East of Eden John Steinbeck September Cry, The Beloved Country Alan Paton 2004 January One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez April The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers May Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy September The Good Earth Pearl S. Buck 2005 June The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Light in August William Faulkner September A Million Little Pieces James Frey 2006 January Night Elie Wiesel 2007 January The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography Sidney Poitier March The Road Cormac McCarthy June Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides October Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel García Márquez November The Pillars of the Earth Ken Follett 2008 January A New Earth Eckhart Tolle September The Story of Edgar Sawtelle[8] David Wroblewski [edit] References [edit] Footnotes ^ Wyatt, Edward (2004-06-07). "Tolstoy's Translators Experience Oprah's Effect", The New York Times. Retrieved on 5 October 2007. ^ a b Lacayo, Richard (2002-04-07). "Oprah Turns the Page", Time Magazine. Retrieved on 5 October 2007. ^ "Why Oprah Opens Readers' Wallets", Business Week (2005-10-10). Retrieved on 5 October 2007. ^ "Jonathan Franzen Uncorrected". Retrieved on 2007-10-05. ^ Carr, David (2006-01-30). "How Oprahness Trumped Truthiness", The New York Times. Retrieved on 5 October 2007. ^ Dowd, Maureen (2006-01-08). "Oprah's Bunk Club", The New York Times. Retrieved on 5 October 2007. ^ Poniewozik, James (2006-01-26). "Oprah Clarifies Her Position: Truth, Good. Embarrassing Oprah, Very Bad", Time. Retrieved on 5 October 2007. ^ About The Book page on Oprah.com [edit] Further reading Illouz, Eva (2003). Oprah Winfrey and the Glamour of Misery: An Essay on Popular Culture. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 0-231-11813-9. Rooney, Kathleen (2005). Reading with Oprah: The Book Club That Changed America. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press. ISBN 1-55728-782-1. [edit] External links Oprah's Book Club Oprah Book Club Archive Oprah Book Club & O Magazine Selections Buy Oprah Book Club books from Amazon.com Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oprah%27s_Book_Club" Categories: 1990s fads | Lists of books | Oprah Winfrey | Book promotion
Book Sales Club From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search A book sales club is a subscription-based method of selling and purchasing books. It is more often called simply a book club, a term that is also used to describe a book discussion club, which can cause confusion. [edit] How book sales clubs work Each member of a book sales club agrees to receive books by mail and pay for them as they are received. This may be done by means of negative option billing in which the customer receives an announcement of the book or books along with a form to notify the seller if the customer does not want the book. If the customer fails to return the form by a specified date, the seller will ship the book and expect the customer to pay for it, or the business may operate via a "positive option" in which the customer is periodically sent a list of books offered, but none is sent until the customer specifically orders them. The offer of a free book, often a large one, is a frequent enticement to membership. The Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary for years served this purpose. Some clubs offer new members other (non-book) free gifts, such as book notes or reading lights. Some book sales clubs are "continuity" clubs, which send members a certain number of books (selected by the club or the member) every month until the membership expires or is canceled. Harlequin Book Clubs are typical of such clubs. Other book sales clubs are "commitment" clubs, which require members to order a certain number of books in order to fulfill the membership obligation and cancel the membership. Most Book-of-the-Month Clubs are commitment clubs. Book sales clubs typically sell books at a sizable discount from their list prices. Often, the books sold are editions created specifically for sale by the clubs, and are manufactured more cheaply and less durably than the regular editions. The Book-of-the-Month Club (founded 1923) is an early and well known example of this kind of business. Others include the Science Fiction Book Club, the Mystery Book Club, and the Quality Paperback Book Club, all of which are run by Booksonline / Doubleday Entertainment (a subsidiary of Bookspan). The largest book of the month clubs have millions of members. [edit] See also Collins Crime Club Scholastic Corporation [edit] External links Freebookclubs directory of book sales clubs Book-Club-Offers How Do Book Clubs Work? Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_sales_club" Categories: Book collecting | Bookselling
Book of the Month Club From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search The Book of the Month Club (founded 1926[1]) is a United States mail-order business, customers of which are offered a new book each month. The Book of the Month Club is part of a larger company that runs many book clubs in the United States and Canada. It was formerly the flagship club of Book-of-the-Month Club, Inc. That company merged with Doubleday Direct, Inc., a company owned by Bertelsmann, in 2000. The resulting company, Bookspan, was a joint-venture between Time Warner and Bertelsmann until 2007 when Bertelsmann took over complete ownership. Approximately six weeks after it acquired complete ownership of Bookspan, Bertelsmann initiated a major overhaul of the book club business, a process that will eliminate 280 positions, or about 15% of its workforce of 1,900. Many of the specialty book clubs such as American Compass are being eliminated. The company operates a number of non-general book clubs including: American Compass, a club primarily aimed at American conservative readers. InsightOut, a book club featuring books of topical interest to gay and lesbian readers Mosaico and Circulo, two clubs offering Latin and Spanish-translated selections. Contents [hide] 1 Membership terms 2 History 3 Clubs operated by Bookspan and affiliates 4 See also 5 References [edit] Membership terms The most common terms of membership involve a "negative response" system whereby a member is offered a monthly book selection that will be mailed to them on a particular date if it is not declined before that date is reached. Customers have the option to respond declining the selection or opting to order another book or books instead. In addition, potential members are often offered a selection of books to select from at an arbitrarily low price (for example "4 books for $4.00 each") with the stipulation that once they have accepted this initial shipment, and decided they wish to join the club, they must then purchase a certain number of books within a certain period of time (for example, 2 books within the first year) to complete their obligation to the club. The Zooba format requires a 3-book commitment and allows the customer to build and manage a book list similar to a mail-order DVD rental queue. The customer is charged $9.95 monthly (plus any applicable taxes) and is sent the first available book on his or her list. Additional books not on the monthly cycle are also $9.95, and the web interface makes maintaining gift addresses easy. The service usually has an impressive selection of current hardcover bestsellers and is freely browsable to non-members. [edit] History Harry Scherman was a copywriter for the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency in 1916 when he set out to create the "Little Leather Library". With his partners Max Sackheim, and Charles and Albert Boni, Scherman began a mail order
service that offered "30 Great Books For $2.98" (miniature reprints "bound in limp Redcroft") and sold 40,000,000 copies in its first five years [2]. Sackheim and Scherman then founded (1920) their own ad agency devoted entirely to marketing books. The problems of building interest in a new book led Scherman to create, along with Sackheim and Robert Haas, The Book of the Month Club in 1926. As Scherman explained it, the Club itself would be a "standard brand". "It establishes itself as a sound selector of good books and sells by means of its own prestige. Thus, the prestige of each new title need not be built up before becoming acceptable," he explained later, [3]. After starting with 4,000 subscribers, the Club had more than 550,000 within less than twenty years. [edit] Clubs operated by Bookspan and affiliates Black Expressions Children's Book-of-the-Month Club Círculo de Lectores Club Mosaico Crafter's Choice Discovery Channel Book Club Doubleday Book Club Doubleday Large Print The Good Cook History Book Club Home Style Books InsightOut Kids' BookPlanet The Literary Guild Military Book Club Mystery Guild One Spirit Quality Paperback Books Rhapsody Book Club Scientific American Book Club Science Fiction Book Club Book-of-the-Month Club Stephen King Library Zooba [edit] See also DVD club [edit] References ^ Radway, Janice A. A Feeling for Books The Book-of-the-Month Club, Literary Taste, and Middle-Class Desire. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. ^ "Harry Scherman," Current Biography 1943, pp669-671 ^ Id. at 669 Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_the_Month_Club" Categories: Direct marketing | Bertelsmann AG | Time Warner | Companies established in 1923 | Book publishing companies of the United States | Entertainment companies of the United States
World Book Club From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search World Book Club is a radio programme on the BBC World Service featuring famous authors discussing their books with the public. It is broadcast on the first Saturday of each month, with repeats into the following Monday.[1] Since the programme began in 2002 it has been presented by Harriett Gilbert. Contents [hide] 1 History 1.1 Writers and books 2 Quote 3 See also 4 External links 5 References [edit] History World Book Club features a famous writer who answers questions submitted by the public about one of his or her books. It is recorded in front of a live studio audience.[2] Listeners around the world can submit questions before the recording. The programme was launched at the Edinburgh Festival in 2002.[3] The first book featured was Lake Wobegon Days by Garrison Keillor[4]. Until November 2008 it was a half-hour programme broadcast on the last Tuesday of each month in the slot of The Word, a defunct book programme now absorbed within the output of The Strand, the BBC World Service's daily arts and entertainment show. At the same time World Book Club became an hour long programme broadcast on the first Saturday in the month in the slot otherwise occupied by the highlights compilation of The Strand. Some repeats are in an edited 30 minute version to fit The Strand's half hour slot. The first hour long programme featured Alice Walker. Four winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature have taken part: Doris Lessing (laureate 2007), V. S. Naipaul (laureate 2001), Orhan Pamuk (laureate 2006) and Wole Soyinka (laureate 1986). As well as 'live' radio transmissions and repeats, current programmes can be listened to online as part of the BBC's usual 'listen again' streaming. Previous programmes are archived and can also be listened to online at any time.[5] [edit] Writers and books Announced upcoming programmes are (with date of first broadcast): Derek Walcott - Omeros (6 December 2008) David Guterson - Snow Falling on Cedars (recording 14th October 2008, broadcast TBA) Toni Morrison - Beloved (recording 27th October 2008, broadcast TBA) Mohsin Hamid - The Reluctant Fundamentalist (TBA) Among the writers who have taken part on World Book Club (with the books that were the focus of discussion and date of first broadcast) are: Alice Walker - The Color Purple (1 November 2008) E. Annie Proulx - The Shipping News and Brokeback Mountain (30 September 2008) David Lodge - Nice Work (26 August 2008) Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart (29 July 2008 repeat from June 2006) John Irving - The World According to Garp (24 June 2008) Khaled Hosseini - The Kite Runner (27 May 2008) Sebastian Faulks - Birdsong (29 April 2008) Jane Smiley - A Thousand Acres (25 March 2008) Patricia Cornwell - Postmortem (26 February 2008) Edna O'Brien - The Country Girls (29 January 2008) Umberto Eco - The Name of the Rose (25 December 2007) Sara Paretsky - Indemnity Only (November 2007) Michael Ondaatje - The English Patient (October 2007) Armistead Maupin - Tales of the City (September 2007) Irvine Welsh - Trainspotting (August 2007) Richard Dawkins - The Selfish Gene (July 2007) Thomas Keneally - Schindler's Ark (June 2007) Wole Soyinka - Ake: The Years of Childhood (May 2007) Mario Vargas Llosa - Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (April 2007) Iain Banks - The Wasp Factory (March 2007) Rose Tremain - Restoration (February 2007) Yann Martel - Life of Pi (January 2007) John Le Carre - A Perfect Spy (December 2006) William Boyd - Brazzaville Beach (November 2006) Frank McCourt - Angela's Ashes (October 2006) Arnold Wesker - Chicken Soup with Barley (September 2006) Ian Rankin - Black and Blue (August 2006) Joanna Trollope -
The Rector's Wife (July 2006) Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart (June 2006) Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse-Five (May 2006) Orhan Pamuk - My Name is Red (April 2006) Alexander McCall Smith - The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (March 2006) Scott Turow - Presumed Innocent (February 2006) Louis de Bernieres - Captain Corelli's Mandolin (January 2006) Philip Pullman - Northern Lights (December 2005) Vikram Seth - A Suitable Boy (November 2005) Maya Angelou - I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings (October 2005) Salman Rushdie - Midnight's Children (September 2005) André Brink - A Dry White Season (August 2005) Joyce Carol Oates - Blonde (July 2005) Carlos Fuentes - The Death of Artemio Cruz (June 2005) Nick Hornby - Fever Pitch (May 2005) Wilbur Smith - When the Lion Feeds (April 2005) Ian McEwan - Atonement (March 2005) Zadie Smith - White Teeth (February 2005) P. D. James - Original Sin (January 2005) Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist (December 2004) Kazuo Ishiguro - The Remains of the Day (November 2004) Roddy Doyle - The Commitments (October 2004) Anita Desai - Fasting, Feasting (September 2004) Amos Oz - My Michael (August 2004) Gillian Slovo - Red Dust (July 2004) Ken Follett - Eye of the Needle (June 2004) Tracy Chevalier - Girl with a Pearl Earring (May 2004) Germaine Greer - The Female Eunuch (April 2004) A. S. Byatt - Possession (March 2004) Martin Cruz Smith - Gorky Park (February 2004) Amy Tan - The Joy Luck Club (January 2004) V. S. Naipaul - A House for Mr Biswas (December 2003) Isabel Allende - The House of Spirits (November 2003) Peter Carey - Oscar and Lucinda (September 2003) Frederick Forsyth - Day of the Jackal (October 2003) Ruth Rendell - A Judgement in Stone (August 2003) Julian Barnes - Flaubert's Parrot (July 2003) Terry Pratchett - The Colour of Magic (May 2003) Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale (April 2003) Jung Chang - Wild Swans (March 2003) Doris Lessing - The Grass is Singing (February 2003) Hanif Kureishi - The Buddha of Suburbia (January 2003) Ben Okri - The Famished Road (December 2002) Arundhati Roy - The God of Small Things (November 2002) Martin Amis - Money (October 2002) Garrison Keillor - Lake Wobegon Days (September 2002) [edit] Quote Harriett Gilbert has said about the programme,[3] "For a book addict, I have the dream job...On World Book Club, I introduce those writers to their readers, all around the world and sit back while they enjoy themselves. If only Charles Dickens were still alive!" [edit] See also The Strand [edit] External links World Book Club homepage - including the listen again facility World Book Club programme times [edit] References ^ Programme times ^ BBC World Service Meet the Presenter Harriett Gilbert ^ a b World Service profile ^ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/2195287.stm ^ World Book Club Archive Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Book_Club" Categories: BBC radio programmes | BBC World Service
Left Book Club From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search The Left Book Club, founded in 1936, was a key left-wing institution of the late 1930s and 1940s in the United Kingdom. The book club, run by Victor Gollancz, supplied a book chosen every month by Gollancz and his panel — he, Harold Laski and John Strachey — to its members, who by the outbreak of the second world war numbered 57,000, many of whom participated in one or other of the 1,500 or so Left Discussion Groups scattered around the country. The books and pamphlets with their distinctive orange (paperback 1936-38) or red (hardback 38-48) covers with their legend - NOT FOR SALE TO THE PUBLIC - sold for 2s 6d to members. Many titles were available for sale only in the LBC edition, with monthly 'choices' received by all members, with additional optional titles reprinting current socialist and 'progressive' classics. The volumes included history, science, reporting and fiction and covered a range of subjects, but all with a left-leaning slant. Among the authors of its 200-plus volumes were Arthur Koestler, André Malraux, George Orwell, Katharine Burdekin and Clement Attlee. Until the Nazi-Soviet pact of 1939 (and indeed for some time afterwards), the club’s output included many authors who were members of the Communist Party or close to it, and it avoided any criticism of Stalin’s Soviet Union, refusing Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia. Indeed, it published some extraordinary encomiums to the wonders of Stalinism, among them Dudley Collard’s Soviet Justice and the Trial of Radek and Others (a defence of the show trials), Pat Sloan’s Soviet Democracy (a propagandist tract extolling Stalin’s 1936 constitution), a reprint of Sidney and Beatrice Webb’s Soviet Communism: a new civilisation, J. R. Campbell’s Soviet Policy and its Critics (notable for its virulent assault on Trotsky) and Hewlett Johnson’s The Socialist Sixth of the World. By early 1940, however, Gollancz had broken with the CP, a process documented in the articles collected in Betrayal of the Left in early 1941, and from then on the club took a strongly democratic socialist line until its demise in 1948. Despite its large membership and popular success the Book Club was always a huge financial drain on the publisher, with the advent of paper rationing at the onset of the war the club was restricted to just one monthly title. To replace the book club's additional choices and augment the LBC selections, Gollancz launched the "Victory Books" series, a series of shorter monographs available to the general public, including two of the biggest sellers of the War Guilty Men by Cato (Michael Foot) and Your M.P. by Gracchus (Tom Wintringham). In addition to books the LBC also produced a monthly newsletter - with began as a simple club news sheet Left Book News, but gradually developed into a key international political and social affairs paper (as Left News). Gollancz was a notoriously interventionist editor. He published Orwell’s The Road to Wigan Pier but insisted on prefacing its account of working-class life in the north of England with an introduction disowning its criticisms of middle-class socialists who had little understanding of working class life and later republished the book leaving out the second part of which he disapproved. A small group of booksellers in the UK are working on bringing back a publishing version of the Left Book Club and established a Limited company of the same name in 2002, their site LeftBookClub.com was launched in 2007, where they are documenting progress. [edit] References and external links Lewis, John. The Left Book Club: an historical record. Gollancz. 1970. ISBN 0-575-00586-6 Laity, Paul (ed). The Left Book Club Anthology. Gollancz. 2001. ISBN 0-575-07221-0 Edwards, Ruth Dudley. Victor Gollancz: a biography. Gollancz. 1987. ISBN 0-575-03175-1 http://www.wcml.org.uk/culture/lbcbooks.htm - List of publications http://www.leftbookclub.com - new publishing project Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left_Book_Club" Categories: Book publishing companies of the United Kingdom | Companies established in 1936 | Political book publishing companies | 1948 disestablishments
First Tuesday Book Club From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search This article or section needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of the article are generally not sufficient for a Wikipedia article. Please include more appropriate citations from reliable sources, or discuss the issue on the talk page. (January 2007) First Tuesday Book Club is an Australian television show that discusses books ostensibly in the style of a domestic book club. Hosted by journalist Jennifer Byrne, it uses the panel format made popular in The Glass House with two regular members — book reviewer Jason Steger and author/blogger Marieke Hardy — and two guest members. The show first aired on the ABC on 1 August 2006 and is scheduled as a monthly program. Contents [hide] 1 Books reviewed 1.1 2006 1.2 2007 1.3 2008 2 Guests 3 See also 4 References 5 External links [edit] Books reviewed [edit] 2006 American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis — August 2006 The Ballad of Desmond Kale by Roger McDonald — August 2006 The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón — September 2006 Longitude by Dava Sobel — September 2006 The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson — October 2006 The Rachel Papers by Martin Amis — October 2006 The Mission Song by John le Carré — November 2006 The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard — November 2006 The Unknown Terrorist by Richard Flanagan — December 2006 The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins — December 2006 [edit] 2007 Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones — March 2007 The Solid Mandala by Patrick White — March 2007 In The Company of The Courtesan by Sarah Dunant — April 2007 The Secret River by Kate Grenville — April 2007 The Road by Cormac McCarthy — May 2007 Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut — May 2007 The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall — June 2007 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll — June 2007 The Post-Birthday World by Lionel Shriver — July 2007 Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain Fournier — July 2007 A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini — August 2007 The Dancer Upstairs by Nicholas Shakespeare — August 2007 The Broken Shore by Peter Temple — September 2007 Moby-Dick by Herman Melville — October 2007 [edit] 2008 The Memory Room by Christopher Koch — March 2008 Naked by David Sedaris — March 2008 Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis — April 2008 People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks — April 2008 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson — May 2008 A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway — May 2008 Breath by Tim Winton — June 2008 Demons at Dusk by Peter Stewart — June 2008 Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie — July 2008 Miracles of Life by J. G. Ballard — July 2008 Devil May Care by Sebastian Faulks — August 2008 The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow — August 2008 [1] Disquiet by Julia Leigh — September 2008 A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole — September 2008 The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne by Brian Moore — October 2008 Pandora in the Congo by Albert Sanchez Pinol — October 2008 [edit] Guests Guests have included Jesuit priest Frank Brennan, actress Penny Cook, gardener Peter Cundall, Sex Discrimination Commissioner Pru Goward, feminist Germaine Greer, author Di Morrissey, enfant-terrible John Safran, musician and broadcaster Lindsay 'The Doctor' Mc Dougall, politician Malcolm Turnbull, retired NSW Premier Bob Carr, comedian Judith Lucy, retired Australian General (and author) Peter Cosgrove, and actor/writer/director Richard E Grant. [edit] See also List of Australian television series The Book Group - British comedy [edit] References ^ First Tuesday — ABC TV [edit] External links official website Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Tuesday_Book_Club" Categories: Australian television talk shows | Book promotion | Australian Broadcasting Corporation shows | 2006 Australian television series debuts
The Jane Austen Book Club From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search For the film, see The Jane Austen Book Club (film). The Jane Austen Book Club First edition cover Author Karen Joy Fowler Country United States Language English Publisher Putnam Adult Publication date April 22, 2004 Media type Print (Hardcover and Paperback) Pages 288pp ISBN ISBN 0399151613 The Jane Austen Book Club is a 2004 novel by American author Karen Joy Fowler. The story, which takes place near Sacramento, California, centers around a book club consisting of five women and one man who meet once a month to discuss Jane Austen's six novels. It was a critical success and became a national bestseller. A film adaptation of the same name was released in autumn of 2007. Contents [hide] 1 Plot introduction 2 Characters and their corresponding novel 3 Reception 4 Film adaptation 5 References 6 External links [edit] Plot introduction The novel takes place over the course of several months in a contemporary university town in California's Central Valley near Sacramento. Each of the six chapters is dedicated to one of the six book club members as well as one of Austen's six works. In turn, each of Austen's novels parallels the individual characters' experiences with relationships and love. [edit] Characters and their corresponding novel Jocelyn (Emma): an independent, 50-something dog breeder and matchmaker who organized the Jane Austen Book Club. Jocelyn has been best friends with Sylvia since they were eleven and introduced her to her husband, Daniel, when they were in high school. She has never married and has no children. She originally invites Grigg to the book club for Sylvia's sake, but ends up attracted to him herself. Allegra (Sense and Sensibility): the young and impetuous daughter of Sylvia and her husband Daniel. Allegra is an artist and a thrill seeker, having been known to sky dive and rock climb, amongst other things. Prudie (Mansfield Park): a 28-year-old French teacher at a local high school. She is married to Dean, whom she loves, but she becomes confused when witnessing every-day infatuations between her students, especially when one student in particular flirts with her. Grigg (Northanger Abbey): an offbeat 30-something, and the only male member of the book club. Grigg grew up the only boy amongst his three older sisters. He is also addicted to science fiction and coincidentally met Jocelyn at a hotel in which they were attending two separate conventions: Jocelyn, a dog breeding convention, and Grigg, a science fiction convention. Bernadette (Pride and Prejudice): a 67-years-young yoga enthusiast and the most talkative of the members. Bernadette has been married multiple times and is determined to "let herself go" with style. Although she is the oldest of the members, she is the most satisfied with her lifestyle. Sylvia (Persuasion): Jocelyn's best friend, Sylvia is also 50-something years old and is going through a troubling separation with her husband Daniel, who has left her after thirty years of marriage for another woman. Their daughter, Allegra, has come to live with her for the time being. [edit] Reception The novel was met with general critical acclaim. It became a New York Times bestseller and stayed on the list for thirteen weeks. It was also chosen as the sixth selection in 2005 for Richard & Judy's Book Club. [edit] Film adaptation A film adaptation of the book, written and directed by Robin Swicord, was released in the United States in the fall of 2007. While the character names and some minor details remained the same, the screenplay is for the most part a dramatic departure from the novel. The film stars Maria Bello as Jocelyn, Emily Blunt as Prudie, Kathy Baker as Bernadette, Amy Brenneman as Sylvia, Maggie Grace as Allegra, and Hugh Dancy as Grigg. [edit] References [edit] External links This 'Book Club' stays true to Jane Austen, review by Anita Sama, USA TODAY 'The Jane Austen Book Club': Mr. Darcy Is a Boorish Snob. Please Discuss. Review by Patricia T. O'Conner, The New York Times Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jane_Austen_Book_Club" Categories: 2004 novels | American novels
The Mother-Daughter Book Club From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search The Mother-Daughter Book Club Author Heather Vogel Frederick Cover artist Michael Frost Country United States Language English Publisher Simon & Schuster Publication date April 24, 2007 Media type Print (hardcover, paperback) Pages 256 ISBN 0689864124 Followed by Much Ado About Anne The Mother-Daughter Book Club is a book written by Heather Vogel Frederick. [edit] Plot Summary The book club is about to get a makeover.... Even if Megan would rather be at the mall, Cassidy is late for hockey practice, Emma's already read every book in existence, and Jess is missing her mother too much to care, the book club is scheduled to meet every month. But what begins as a mom-imposed ritual of reading Little Women soon helps four unlikely friends navigate the drama of middle school. From stolen journals, to a fashion-fiasco first dance, the girls are up to their Wellie boots in drama. They can't help but wonder: What would Jo March do? Acclaimed author Heather Vogel Frederick will delight daughters of all ages in a novel about the fabulousness of fiction, family, and friendship. [edit] Summary The book is divided into five parts: Fall, Winter, Spring, and Summer and each girl has their own chapter. Autumn Emma The book starts of with Emma on the bus to her first day in the 6th grade at Walden Middle School in Concord, Massachusetts. She gets made fun of by Becca Chadwick and Ashley Sanborn because of her hand-me-down skirt from a girl named Nicole Patterson (who is in the same grade as her brother, Darcy). Emma talks about how she hates the first day of school. She started hating the first day of school when she started fourth grade, when her ex-best friend Megan replaced her with three popular girls named Becca, Ashley, and Jen. She also explains that she became rich because her father created a "computer gizmo." Emma also explains that Megan made "the most amazing clothes for our Barbies." As she enters the school, her brother Darcy helps her find her homeroom. She asks if her best friend, Jess, is there too, but isn't. She enters the class and is sitting across from Megan, and sitting next to Zach Norton, her crush. Emma also explains that Darcy calls Megan, Becca, Ashley, and Jen "the Fab Four." When Emma gets home, she eats dinner with her family. She explains that her father does all the cooking, that her mother is a terrible cook and "she can't even boil water." She also explains that her mother is "a Jane Austen nut" and that her mother named she and her brother after characters in her favorite novels (Emma after Emma and Darcy after Pride and Predjudice). Her mother tells
her that she and a few mothers were talking and that they decided to start a mother-daughter book club. Emma asks her mother who is going to be there but she refuses to tell her. Megan Megan texts Becca that she and her mother are in a book club and that she hates it. Her mother tells her that starting the club will look good on her application to the academy (which Megan has no interest in; she wants to be a fashion designer). Megan describes that she and her mother are 100% different and that she likes to help causes. Meanwhile, Megan and her mother are driving to the library for the meeting. She sees Zach Norton (she also has a crush on him) and exits the car quickly and waves casually like she doesn't care. She also sees Ethan MacDonald, and Third (his real name is Cranfield Bartlett III). She also sees Emma Hawthorne, whom she hates and in her mind she compliments her outfit. As she and her mother, Emma, and Emma's mother enter the library. A few minutes later, in walks in Cassidy Sloane with her mother (a former, world famous model), Clementine. Megan compliments Cassidy in how she doesn't look anything like her mother and how much of a tomboy she is. Also, Jess walks in and compliments on what a weird-o she is. She also describes how Jess's mother "ran away" from home to go to New York to audition for a television show called HeartBeats.Becca's mother enters the library and Megan states that no one likes Becca's mother. Becca's mother says that she's sorry that she couldn't come shopping with Becca, Ashley, and Jen in a mean way. The first meeting of the club ends. Cassidy Cassidy walks into her home after school and her mother greets her from the kitchen. Cassidy walks into the kitchen and sees her mother is making cupcakes for a Halloween party that her mother hosted without confronting Cassidy first. Cassidy makes a mean comment about her mother's cupcakes. Cassidy sets off a temper tantrum and goes to her room. Meanwhile, she confronts her older sister, Courtney, who tells her that [edit] References title Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother-Daughter_Book_Club" Categories: 2007 novels | Children's novels
