The best one-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln is still Benjamin Thomas's 1952 biography. David Donald's 1995 biography is a close second, and close enough that if you can only obtain the Donald rather than the Thomas, your book club will still be doing just fine.
Reading. That was the sport I was good at.
I still have a book club with my friends from when I was 5. That's the privilege of growing up in a place where people want to remain. It's a huge gift.
I do, in fact, have a book club. I meet with a couple of guys once a month of a lunchtime discussion of some interesting text, usually, but not always, philosophical.
My wife read Narc as well and was really into it.
It's a novel experience to have one of my books read by a reading group.
Fiction allows for moral questioning, but through the back door. Personally, I like books that make you think - books you're still wondering about three days after you finish them; books you hand to a friend and say "Read this, so we can talk about it."
For most people, what is so painful about reading is that you read something and you don't have anybody to share it with. In part what the book club opens up is that people can read a book and then have someone else to talk about it with. Then they see that a book can lead to the pleasure of conversation, that the solitary act of reading can actually be a part of the path to communion and community.
Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of a social event, the meeting of a book club, is a brilliant idea.
Books, in the plural lose their solidity of substance and become a gas, filling all available space.
I live for watching TV and partying with my book club.
Books are like flypaper, memories cling to the printed pages better than anything else.
When you want to read the book, come read the book. When you want to come talk to me and be my friend, come talk to me.
My mother was a Book of the Month Club devotee. I remember she always looked forward to Pearl Buck's books.
We live for books.
I interviewed - no - had lunch with Harper Lee several years ago, trying to convince Harper Lee to do "To Kill a Mockingbird" for the book club. She wouldn't do it. She said, "Honey, I said everything I wanted to say."
I am no fan of books.
I always have at least one book with me. I try and read a book a month.
If I grew up with a dysfunctional family, I would eventually start a book club.
I try to get through a book every two weeks.
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends.
I have not been in a book club where there were any men, and I have not, in fact, heard of book groups that were mixed.
Wearing a giant, over-sized scarf will make you look deeply intelligent in almost any situation, but especially a book club.
I have this book club, and we don't read one book; we offer up a few suggestions and create a library over time.
I must read. I must read. I must read.
