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The February Spotlight Group Is…

January 31, 2019 Spotlight Book Groups

February 2019 Spotlight: Fact, Faith, and Fiction Book Group

Our February Spotlight Group brings a spiritual touch to their choices!

The Fact, Faith, and Fiction Book Group of Northfield, Minnesota meets monthly in the homes of members. We choose our books as a group three to four months ahead of time. Many are nonfiction, often The Reading Group Choices Spotlight Group for February 2019 is Fact, Faith, and Fictionwith a spiritual bent.

Half of our group is new to the community, while the others are long-term residents of Northfield. It’s a great group that is always respectful of others’ thoughts and opinions. Wonderfully, we all have spouses so we can have couples social events.

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The January Spotlight Group Is…

January 05, 2019 Spotlight Book Groups

January 2019 Spotlight: Circle of Readers

Our January Spotlight Group celebrates its first year!

The Reading Group Choices January Spotlight Group is Circle of ReadersCircle of Readers, our book club, formed a year ago at the Broken Arrow Senior Center in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. We read historical fiction, memoirs, history, and fiction. We meet monthly and have a lively time discussing the books. In December, we had a Book Speed Dating event that was great fun and we all left with new titles to read. Everyone brought four books and we examined one another’s choices and exchanged them, and we enjoyed Christmas cookies as well!

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The September Spotlight Group Is…

August 31, 2018 Spotlight Book Groups
The Marguerites

The Marguerites all belong to a nonprofit called P.E.O. (philanthropic educational organization) which raises money for women’s education and is a life-long learning group. When the P.E.O. chapter they were in became too large to host meetings in homes, the chapter split in two but still wanted to stay connected, and so a reading group of women from both chapters was born in 2004.

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The July Spotlight Group Is…

July 02, 2018 Bookmark, Spotlight Book Groups

The Sassy Sisters is our July 2018 spotlight group on Reading Group Choices

July 2018 Spotlight: Sassy Sisters

Our July Spotlight Group hails from Granite Bay, California!

Originally known as the Granite Bay Book Club, Sassy Sisters started meeting around January 2000.  They recently decided to call the group “Sassy Sisters” because they’re mostly LDS “sisters” who attend the same church and love to socialize. They meet once a month in a group member’s home and have evolved from having potlucks to eating at a restaurant beforehand or having dessert at the hostess’s home. They read a variety of books, including LDS literature, historical novels, fiction and non-fiction,

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The June Spotlight Groups Are…

May 28, 2018 Bookmark, Spotlight Book Groups

June 2018 Spotlights:
Fresh Fiction and Page Turners

Our June Spotlight Groups both meet at Hillside Library in New Hyde Park, New York!

Fresh Fiction Book Group is the Reading Group Choices June 2018 Spotlight GroupFresh Fiction readers discuss recently published novels every month.  The name of the group also refers to new perspectives of seasoned authors, such as Amanda Quick’s recent foray into historical fiction, as well as unique emerging voices, like Rhiannon Navin’s Only Child.  They discuss everything from twisty psychological thrillers to adventure stories, plus more mysterious mystical tales, mysteries, and historical fiction.  Readers ask and answer questions,

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Our 2017 Favorite Book Survey Winners Are…

May 24, 2018 Annual Favorite Books, Bookmark, Spotlight Book Groups

Thank you to everyone who filled out our 2017 survey!

The winners of our drawing received a gift certificate to a local bookstore and a package of RGC-recommended books for their entire group. Meet our 2017 favorite book survey winners. . .

The Secret Society of Rabid Readers is a favorite books survey winner on Reading Group ChoicesThe Secret Society of Rabid Readers
Decorah, Iowa

The Secret Society of Rabid Readers is a spin-off group of a larger public library book discussion group.  The public library group has everyone read the same title for book discussion once a month.

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