Who leads the book discussions? Are reading group discussion guides used?
No one really leads the group except in the rare cases that the conversation lags or we need to get started, in which case, Andrea or I will step in to lead. We began the club using book discussion guides, but we decided that the formal use of guides often limited or stifled our own thoughts on the book. If someone chooses to use a guide, we encourage them to look at it only after they have read and thought about the book. There have been many times when I have brought a guide to the discussion and found that not a single thing we talked about was on the discussion guide. Conversely, the leader of our library’s other book club always uses guides and her group really seems to thrive on a guide to help them pre-consider the discussion. Q: How are books selected? Is a new one chosen at each meeting, or are they chosen for a number of meetings ahead of time? A: We choose books about every five to six months, whenever we can get a chunk of money through state library aid or our Friends of t
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