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It is often simply called a book club, a term that may cause confusion with a book sales club. Other terms include reading group, book group, and book discussion group. Book discussion clubs may meet in private homes, libraries, bookstores, online forums, pubs, and cafés, or restaurants, sometimes over meals or drinks.
The novel, which looks at the club as it changes throughout the years, spans decades in the lives of the women involved in the club, between 1868 and 1932. Many characters are introduced in the course of the novel, but the primary characters are Anne Gordon and Sally Rausch, who in 1868 are new graduates of the Waynesboro Female College. They ...
Ladies Dining Society (1890-World War I), Cambridge, a private women's dining and discussion club at Cambridge University. Primarily wives of male professors and college fellows. Members campaigned for Cambridge to grant degrees to women, and most were strong supporters of female suffrage. Pioneer Club (women's club), London
The Book Club of Detroit is club whose members are book collectors, book dealers and bibliophiles who meet in the interest not only of sociability, but to share and expand interest in the history of books and bookmaking. [2] [3] [4] The Club met regularly for many years at the historic Scarab Club in downtown Detroit. [5]
Author Hugh Eakin, the author of Picasso's War, reveals why he chose to focus the novel on two unexpected characters instead of the artist.
Oprah's Book Club was a book discussion club segment of the American talk show The Oprah Winfrey Show, highlighting books chosen by host Oprah Winfrey. Winfrey started the book club in 1996, selecting a new book, usually a novel, for viewers to read and discuss each month. [1] [2] [3] In total, the club recommended 70 books during its 15 years.
The Securities and Exchanges Commission's allegations about Goldman Sachs (GS) fraudulently selling a synthetic collateralized debt obligation called Abacus raise several fundamental questions ...
In fact, today’s 40- and 50-something women do look and feel different from their mothers at the same age. Old ideas about this life stage are undergoing something of a rebrand.