Bloomsbury Essential Guide for Reading Groups

by SusanOsborne (Author)

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  Paperback
  2008

  $3.45

  A book club gives the opportunity to meet up with friends and wake the brain up a bit with lively and often quite aggressive discussion Dawn French How do you keep your reading groups discussions lively and focussed? If you want to gain new insight into literature and share your passion with friends this book offers readers guides for 75 of the very best reads - guaranteed to provoke spirited debate! Each of the readers guides includes a summary of the book, a brief author biography, discussion points to spark debate, and a set of titles for further reading that deal with similar themes. A 'background' section provides pointers to more material about the book online and as well as further thought-provoking material: Where did the author come from? What made them write the book? How did the context in which they wrote influence them? If you'd like further insight, debate, discussion and analysis to underpin your understanding and enjoyment of reading - then look no further than this guide. New titles in this edition include: The Long Firm, Leper's Companions, By the Sea, The Ninth Life of Louis Drax, Buddha of Suburbia, The Icarus Girl, Black and Blue, The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, The Cutting Room, Shadow of the Wind, Giving up the Ghost...and many more!

• Used

  Paperback
  2002

  $3.45

  In the last few years, the reading group phenomenon has swept the country and more and more people are becoming interested in either becoming a member of one or setting up their own reading group.But how do you go about finding a reading group in your area, or if you are involved in setting one up, how should it be run, what books should be selected? The Bloomsbury Essential Guide for Reading Groups tells you all you need to know to run a reading group - how to set one up; Readers' Guides covering 50 books - 40 novels and 10 non-fiction; Synopses to aid a quick choice of a book for discussion (all synopses are cross-referenced back to Readers' Guides); Themes - each theme is accompanied by a brief introductory paragraph, followed by a simple list of titles, all of which are referenced back to the Readers' Guides; Resources - an annotated list of useful magazines, books websites etc; Suggested Further Reading - a list of 50 additional, highly recommended titles for discussion.The Bloomsbury Essential Guide for Reading Groups will be indispensable to all those who want to establish or are already involved in a reading group.