Comments on: What’s the Deal with Book Clubs?

By: Raising Happiness « Motherese

Raising Happiness « Motherese — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 09:12:08 +0000

[...] I posted last month about my decidedly mixed experience with book clubs, I never expected that my trifling essay would strike a nerve with so many of my readers, many of [...]

By: Raising Happiness « Motherese

Raising Happiness « Motherese — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 21:07:14 +0000

[...] my readers, many of them fellow bibliophiles searching for the perfect book club experience. In the comments section of that post, via e-mail, and in the Twittersphere, many of you offered your support for the idea of an online [...]

By: Delia Lloyd: Five Reasons To Join A Book Club | Twitmerlin - News, Celebs Gossip, Social Media

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:46:10 +0000

[...] I read Kristen’s post over on Motherese yesterday about the sheer variety of book club experiences out there and her uncertainty as to what [...]

By: Tips For Adulthood: Five Reasons To Join A Book Club « RealDelia

Tips For Adulthood: Five Reasons To Join A Book Club « RealDelia — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:46:01 +0000

[...] I read Kristen’s post over on Motherese yesterday about the sheer variety of book club experiences out there and her uncertainty as to what [...]

By: submom

submom — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:46:36 +0000

I always find myself jealous of people belonging to a book club, one that meets regularly and actually reads books, with members that get fabulously along with each other. It sounds like a movie in the making.

By: Kristen @ Motherese

Kristen @ Motherese — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:57:31 +0000

What’s “bunco”? Is this an Arizona thing, Linda? Do tell.

By: Kristen @ Motherese

Kristen @ Motherese — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:52:18 +0000

Okay, Tasha, stay tuned. I think an online book club may be in the works!

By: Linda at Bar Mitzvahzilla

Linda at Bar Mitzvahzilla — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 06:38:54 +0000

Kristen, great topic. Somehow the subject of a bookclub where the members don’t read the book sounds like my neighborhood bunco group where no one plays bunco. We just stand around talking and eating and drinking and then, somehow, the host gives out prizes.

But I’m like you. I always have my nose in a book. Even when I had a newborn sleeping on top of me or in the crook of my arm, there was a book in my hand. I tend to read memoirs now since that’s what I write and also for the help it gives me with structure. Right now I’m reading “Just Kids” by Patti Smith and it’s surprisingly good. Considering it’s by a celebrity, she writes pretty well.

By: Terresa Wellborn

Terresa Wellborn — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 06:17:03 +0000

I’m finding book clubs like some friendships: They ebb and flow.

When we lived in San Diego I worked at a publishing company. Our book club rocked and then some.

When we first moved back to Las Vegas, I started a book club with like-minded home birthing mamas. We ate up books together, pot luck style, until a few years later, the group had flowed in different directions. It became all about babies and for me, then, it was so…yesterday. So handed the group off to a friend to run.

At the moment, I’m book clubless, too. (sigh)

By: Stacia

Stacia — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:02:17 +0000

Emily Giffin is one of my favorites! I inhale everything she writes. You are right: her character development is sensational; she has you empathizing with characters you thought you were “bad” and questioning the actions of the “good” ones, and then she brings it all around at the end.