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Cargando... A Year of Readingpor Elisabeth Ellington
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This has been on my wishlist for over a year so I was delighted when I found it on the shelf at Goodwill yesterday. So delighted in fact that I went home and spent the evening reading it. It broke down each month into a theme (eg. Women's History, Cold, Gardening, etc.) and then selected books in the following categories for each theme: Crowd Pleaser, Classic, Memoir, Challenge and Potluck. Each selection was followed with some information related to the book and author as well as questions. The book can be used for either individual or group reading. It was friendly without being patronizing in tone. I really liked this and intend to use it to enhance my reading. I picked up A Year of Reading because I thought I would get lots of good ideas for new books to read, and that I did! A Year of Reading is set up to support a book group. For each of 12 months, a theme is chosen, and a book in each of five categories is presented. The five categories are: Crowd Pleaser, Classic, Challenge, Memoir and Pot Luck. For each book presented, there is a ton of information, including: - a section on what the book is about, - some questions for discussion with your book group, - information on the author, - other works by the author, - additional book- or author-related activities in which the book group can participate, - related videos and movies, and - a section on other books you might like if you enjoyed this one. Even though I did not use this book for book group activities, I enjoyed going through it. If I hadn't read the selected book yet, I didn't spend time on the book group questions (I'll do that when I read the selected book), but I did review them for books I had already read. The questions are pertinent. I filled this book up with a ton of red flags for all the books I'm interested in, so for me A Year of Reading was a big success, and could probably fill a year of reading with all of the books I have added to my wishlist. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Desire a book to cozy up with by a wintery window? How about an addictive page-turner for sunbathing on the beach? Thousands of new books are published each year, and if you're a book lover - or just book curious - choosing what to read next can seem like an impossible task. A Year of Readingrelieves the anxiety by helping you find just the right read, and includes fun and interactive subcategories for each choice, including: * Description and history * Extra credit * Did You Know? * Have You Seen the Film? * and more! A Year of Reading also gives advice and tips on how to join or start a book group, and where to look for other reading recommendations. Perfect for clubs or passionate individuals, this beautiful and concise second edition is the essential guide to picking up your next inspiring, entertaining, and thought-provoking book. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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The book says it suggests sixty books to start out with, but that isn't entirely accurate. Each month suggests five books and each book has a suggested reading section. It gives a short synopsis of the book and tells you about other things the author has done. So it is a bit like a printed version of Goodreads, only instead of having readers suggest other books to you, we have a person with a Ph.D. and a member of a book club. So I suppose I could say that this book is more gated in some ways than Goodreads, but since it is printed it is far more limited in the content it can address.
Given those points, it is not really disappointing or upsetting that this book is out there. Since it was printed in 2002 I suppose there was no way for them to predict the explosive popularity of the internet as we have it now. ( )