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June 2020 Spotlight: Bufò Bookstore in Italy

Our June Spotlight is a book group coordinator in Turin, Italy!

Hello! My name is Sara and I’m a book group coordinator in an Italian bookshop. I read Italian novels, stories from the 20th century and contemporary fiction with my book groups. We are around 15 people in each group and usually we meet together once a month. The bookshop is our home, but during this particular moment we obviously use video calls to talk about books. You can find more info about our work by visiting the bookshop website www.libreriabufo.it or on my literary blog www.blufiordaliso.it.

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May 2020 Spotlight: Reading Between the Wines

Our May Spotlight Group members leave books for one other on their doorsteps!

This is our small but wonderful book club called Reading Between The Wines that just started meeting in January of this year. We all belong to St Paul’s United Methodist Church in Carolina Beach, NC and met there several years ago. Since we all liked each other, I thought a book club would be a great great way to get to know each other better, since so many of us are retired educators.

Our first book discussion in February was for Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng.

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March 2020 Spotlight: The Dinner & Breakfast Clubs

Our March Spotlight Group members cross borders with a student group!

Portland High School has a student book club as well as a “staffulty” book club.  The students’ group is “The Breakfast Club,” as we meet in the mornings before school.  The staffulty group is “The Dinner Club” since we meet after school.  The staffulty consists of 2 librarians, 12 teachers, 2 guidance counselors, 1 retired principal, 1 retired teacher, and 1 staff member. The librarians take suggestions for what books to read and then compile the reading list for the year.

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February 2020 Spotlight: Wildflowers Bookclub

Our February Spotlight Group members each have the name of a flower!

The Wildflowers Bookclub is comprised of 10 friends who all have chosen a flower name when we began 18 years ago: they are Rose, Magnolia, Hyacinth. Hydrangea, Lilac, Briony, Sweet Pea, Iris, Bird of Paradise, and Dahlia. We rotate turns in choosing a book. In 2019, we read Unsheltered, Educated, Born a Crime, The Island of Sea Women and seven other books!

Seven of us are retired educators and all of us are good friends!

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January 2020 Spotlight: Morse Lakes Ladies

Our January Spotlight Group hasn’t missed a monthly meeting in 17 years!

We are the Ladies of the Lake, living in Morse Lakes in Bloomingdale, NJ. We’ve just finished up
our 17th year of book club, and are eagerly awaiting the beginning of our 18th year together.

We meet on a monthly basis: the second Monday of the month is sacrosanct. We are proud to say that we haven’t missed one of our monthly meetings in the 17 years we’ve been together. We enjoy the camaraderie and thought-provoking discussions.

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