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The One-Stop Resource for Book Groups and Other Greedy Readers. Ellen Moore and Kira Stevens. GRIFFIN original (paperback) March 2004. ISBN: 0312309619. 352 pages.
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We're proud to be a Book Sense 76 pick for March/April 2004.
Check out some recent reviews of the GOOD BOOKS LATELY companion.
If you’re looking for new ideas to spice up your book group, wondering how to join an existing group, or hoping to start your own, Good Books Lately will give you the goods to make your book group experience a rousing, rewarding success.
How to tell a book by its cover
Discussion questions for every sort of book
Behind-the-scenes anecdotes and “dirt”
from book group members
Troubleshooting for all kinds of groups
Book group members select the best and
worst in book group reading
Annotated thematic lists of GBL’s favorite book group books
Survey results from hundreds of book
groups around the country
Someone recently remarked of Burt Reynolds in the seventies that he was like all six of the Village People rolled up into one. We'd like to make the same claim for our new book group handbook. While it contains no information whatsoever about either The Bandit or transgender disco supergroups, you will find at least six, if not more, tools and techniques to enhance your book group experience.
In the past few years, we've invaded the living rooms and stolen the secrets of hundreds of innocent readers in our efforts to create the definitive book group companion. Using force and blackmail only when absolutely necessary, we've "persuaded" members and leaders from around the world to share their secrets for the best ways to create or expand a book group, to energize or redirect discussion, and to discover the finest hidden gems of book group reading. For some of us, of course, the best isn't good enough. Such readers may enjoy our shameless catalogues of Worst Book Group Books and The Book Group Hall of Shame. Remember, only book group members united have the power to save the world from the metrosexual knitting club members that threaten to destroy our way of life.
 ELLEN MOORE is teaching English and completing her Ph.D. at the University o f Denver, working on a dissertation on the subversive power of book groups in the marketplace. Ellen has worked as a teacher, counselor, and activities director for several different age groups. She enjoys forcing people to get along and have fun—but only if they really want to.
She lives with her husband in Denver.
 KIRA STEVENS has eight years experience teaching college English and is finishing her doctorate—on “The Oprah Effect” and the cultural history of book groups—at the University of Denver. Kira worked at Tattered Cover Book Store for ten years, helping to organize the store’s annual book club seminar. Her compulsive love for organization and detail runs rampantly unchecked by modern pharmacology, to the delight of all her co-workers. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.
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