Globe Book Club: Why book clubs are for spending time with friends, not authors GlobeArts
Barbara Gowdy’s The White Bone is Margaret Atwood’s choice for our new Globe and Mail Book Club for subscribers. Every week, Globe Books will look at themes drawn from the novel to spark discussion among readers. This week,looks at the benefits and drawbacks of book clubs for readers, authors and publishers. Tell us in the Comments section about your best and worst book club moments.
See, whenever I am asked to come and talk to a book club that’s reading one of my books, my primary emotion is contrition. I feel so sorry for all the members who were forced into reading it by the one enthusiastic person. So very often it’s not at all their cup of tea.The Globe Book Club, hosted by Margaret Atwood: Everything you need to know to join the conversation
And what exactly is the goal of conversation? Self-improvement or social connection, and is there a difference?
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