Our friends over at the Inkwell Bookstore Blog recently wrote about this article covering a book club that has been in existence for nearly half a century!
You can read the article for yourself, but here are a few bullet points
- The Book Club started in October, 1959
- Their first book was Animal Farm by George Orwell
- They just finished their 800th (!) book, All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
- Three original members still attend
- The number of men is usually equal to that of women
Anyone out there in a book group that's been around awhile? Anyone in a group with a lot of men? Ann and I regularly do Reading Group presentations in bookstores around New England, so we've heard some answers to these questions, but we'd love to hear more. Share your thoughts with us in the comments section!
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We encourage you to write down or print out the title information and shop at your local bookstore. Titles link to LibraryThing, a social networking site that allows you to catalog your home library. LibraryThing also links to various online purchasing options. Here are the books from this post:
Animal Farm by George Orwell, Signet Mass Market, $9.99, 9780451526342
Allthe Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy, Vintage Trade Paperback, $14.95, 9780679744399
(all information is for the U.S. editions).
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