The Book Group Book by Ellen Slezak

Dana says: Found this for a buck at the Friends of the Pima County Library sale. How timely! The book consists of about 25 essays written by people who are in book clubs all over the country and then several reading lists from these groups. I was shocked to find out that most of the people who are involved in book clubs are women and even more shocked to find out that most of the book clubs (at least the ones represented in this book) read women authors exclusively or feminist writers only. To borrow a phrase from the 80s- gag me with a spoon! Even though I think this way of reading is stupid I plowed through the book in a few days and did glean a few good ideas out of it for my own book club.