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Congratulations to Laura and The Blackey Library Book Club for winning the random drawing for this month’s Discussible Book Choice! We enjoy hearing from book club members who share with everyone the book choices that made for lively discussions.. Please let us know what about the book contributed to your great discussion – you may win a book-related prize for every member of your reading group!
“Our book club just finished reading The Grave Digger's Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates. We had a lively discussion with some very strong opinions expressed about this book. It is a tale of girl and her family that immigrated from Poland at the beginning of WWII and the "better life" that never came to be for them. It had strong language violence and dealt with tragedies and hardships that unfortunately many people have had to deal with in their lives. Not easy topics, but it evokes real emotions and makes for some very spirited discussions.” Laura, The Blackey Library Book Club, Jeremiah, KY More Discussible Book Choices “The best book we've read all year without hesitation is Gone and Back Again by a guy named Fuqua. We had people crying people laughing hysterically and people renewing relationships with their parents that had been strained for years. It was touching loving mean silly cruel kindly and engrossing. I couldn't and none of us could recommend it any more. One reader said it got her to really start reading again. Another said she finally understood her mother. One said she felt so sad for the protagonist and another said she couldn't stop herself from giggling at the saddest things. It's a wonderful beautiful book that everyone ought to read especially women with kids.” Jill, Wiltondale Lady Readers, Norfolk, VA
“We just fiished reading The March, and it turned out to be one of our best discussions. Instead of just focusing on the march through the south the characters became so important. We all had favorite characters and defended and supported what they did. The March itself with all 60000 people became almost a single person. Similarities and differences among the various people were discussed. The march itself was compared to dropping the bomb on Hiroshima as the hardest but almost the only way to really end the war without even more loss of life. At the end of the book it was stated that this war was but ‘a war after a war and a war before a war’. We all agreed that this was more than that because it tore a country apart and that is the hardest thing to mend. All in all we really had a lively discussion.” Lorraine, A Different Book Club, Townsend, GA
“This month we read The Book of Bright Ideas by Sandra Kring. We have been reading some heavy books lately so we wanted something a little lighter. We all agreed that it was a wonderful book; and we had so much terrific discussion.” Julie, Preschool Moms Book Club, Mechanicsburg, PA
“We read Molokai by Alan Brennert for our March meeting - it was a great discussion on what happens to the main character - and then our conversation went to real life and what people went through who had leprosy.” Sue, Cenntenial Book Club, Ellicott City, MD
“Our best discussion to date had to be about Glass House by J. Walls.” Colleen, BookWalkers, Monroe, NY
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