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Shelley Blanton-Stroud consults with employers to improve their workplace writing and editing. She has taught college writing classes for twenty years and has lead community book clubs for a decade. Contact her here.

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Book club 101: ten ways to enhance your book club meetings

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Even book clubs who are deeply comfortable with the way they have been meeting and speaking about books for years can benefit from a little shake-up...
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What do book clubs think? Will Barnes & Noble free Wi-Fi lead you to linger longer and buy more?

Go back to the beginning -- Chris Anderson's Free, The Future of a Radical Price. Motoko Rich reports Barnes & Noble CEO Steve Riggio's take on a...
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What do book clubs think? Do publishing paradigms of the past have no current meaning?

Go back to the beginning -- Chris Anderson's Free, The Future of a Radical Price. In a Salon interview with Frank Hornig, Chris Anderson (author of...
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What do book clubs think? Do on-line readers prefer info-bites or an info-meal?

Go back to the beginning -- Chris Anderson's Free, The Future of a Radical Price. In his book Free, Chris Anderson asserts that most of us already...
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Book club hot topic: Chris Anderson's Free, The Future of a Radical Price

Book clubs with a bent for non-fiction are no doubt already aware that Wired editor-in-chief Chris Anderson has provoked a virtual, global food fight...
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Coinciding with Comic Con 2009, Art Spiegelman's Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic memoir, Maus

Coinciding with the international Comic Con 2009 convention taking place in San Diego this week, the Arden Dimick Open Book Club will meet Sunday...
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Nancy Drew may have had a hot week in the news, but Little Women's Jo March is still my normal hero

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Nancy Drew has had a hot week in the news. Multiple national stories discuss seriously frisky real-life women (Sonia Sotomayor, Kathleen Parker,...
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Why do book clubs love Malcolm Gladwell? He reads deeply and writes clearly, in plain English

When book clubs read non-fiction, they are generally clever enough to choose books that raise provocative questions, a preference that often leads...
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Book club 101: a three month theme of banned books for teenager summer reading

When the California budget crisis has predictably lead to school districts throughout the state cancelling summer school options, and global economic...
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Book club 101: Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

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When I joined my son’s high school banned book club in reading Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, I was literally sickened by...
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