Reading Group Choices presents some alternative ways to read this summer. Here are six ways to find a balance between your seasonal moods (and calendars) while staying connected with your group!
Summer: To Every Season There Is a Reader!
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Reading Group Choices Interview with Avi
Avi talks about war, childhood, and his inspiration for The Button War.
In The Button War, master of historical fiction Avi delivers a fierce account of the boys in a war-torn Polish village who are determined to prove themselves with a simple dare that spins disastrously out of control. Reading Group Choices interviewed him about the book, his methodology for writing, and the culture created in his striking novel.
Reading Group Choices: Why did you pick buttons as the object of the boys’ dare in The Button War?
The July Spotlight Group Is…
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,
Book Group City Tour: Milwaukee
Looking for a new book group to reinvigorate your love of literature? If you live in Milwaukee, you’re in luck, as the city has much to offer in the way of creative literary programming. Listen to a professor expound on a book’s literary merits, dine on themed meals and desserts, explore the Milwaukee Public Museum’s exhibits through books, or learn about urban engineering and the leading voices in the field from our book group round-up of Brew City.
Reading Group Choices Interview with Shawn Francis Peters
Shawn Francis Peters writes a heart-pounding account of the “Minneapolis Monster” in his newest book, The Infamous Harry Hayward.
Shawn Francis Peters recently visited Verona Public Library in Wisconsin to read and discuss his work with an audience. Shawn also kindly took the time to answer our questions after he shared part of his book!
Reading Group Choices: What book changed your life?
Shawn Francis Peters: When I was in high school in Baltimore in the 1980s, I read Truman Capote’s classic true-crime book In Cold Blood.
Reading Group Choices Interview with Michael Perry
Memoirist, humorist, singer-songwriter: Michael Perry’s latest book, Danger, Man Working, draws on 15 years of writing.
Michael Perry recently visited Reading Group Choices in Madison, Wisconsin, to read and discuss his work with an audience. Michael also kindly took the time to answer our questions after he shared part of his memoir!
Reading Group Choices: What book changed your life?
Michael Perry: When I was in third grade our family received a box of secondhand clothes. When we opened it a worn copy of All Quiet on the Western Front tumbled out.