Book Club Kits
What is the Book Club Kit Collection?
Contained in your book club kit bag are ten numbered copies of a single title and a book group leader’s notebook with information designed to stimulate discussion such as author interviews and biographical information, book reviews, and discussion questions. Most of the sets have 10 copies. A member of the book club checks out a set on one card. Sets check out for a six-week period, with no renewals.
Please remember to return the kits on time with all the contents in the bag. Other book groups may be waiting to check the kit out after your group is finished. Should a member of your group lose a book, we ask that you replace it with another copy either new or gently used.
Contained in the group leader’s notebook are the following:
Sign Out Sheet
Group leaders should use the forms provided to keep track of which books are checked out to group members. Group members should sign out on the numbered line that corresponds to the number on the cover of their book. When a book is returned, cross off the member’s name to help you keep track of who has returned their book and who still has theirs checked out.
Book Reviews
We have included a few book reviews and critical essays here voicing the opinions of professional reviewers towards the work. Reviewers evaluate and recommend books and often make observations that help others read with understanding.
Author Information
An author’s purpose for writing may be to relate an incident from his or her own life, provide insight into human behaviors, or share a philosophy. There author interviews, biographical information and, occasionally, obituaries are included to sharpen reader’s insights into the author’s purpose for writing and their working method.
Discussion Questions
Questions are provided to stimulate and guide discussion but please fell free to add questions and topics that made your discussion lively. Additional relevant background information may also be included in this section.
We have Book Club Kits for the following titles:
The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
Wide Hips, Narrow Shoulders by Monte Lowrance
Note: Author is local and available for book talks.
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Eat, Pray, Love: one woman's search for everything across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert
Kreutzner Sonota by Leo Tolstoy
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
My Antonia by Willa Cather
Crescent by Diana Abu-Jaber
A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell
Pioneer Doctor: the story of a Woman's Work by Mari Grana
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
Standing in the Rainbow by Fannie Flagg
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Men to Match My Mountains by Irving Stone
Caramelo by Sandra Cisneros
The Power of the Dog by Thomas Savage
Reading Lolita in Tehran: a memoir in books by Azar Nafisi
The News from Paraguay by Lily Tuck
The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty
The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard
The Known World by Edward P. Jones
Crimes Against Nature by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.