Quotes About Book club

This was not even a particularly big offense in the pantheon of book club crimes, where the worst sin one could commit was not to read the book in question--or, even worse, to lie about having read the book when, in fact, you'd simply seen the movie, a lie usually uncovered when you used the actor's name by accident. ("I love the part where Daniel Day-Lewis ...")

We had chosen as our next book club selection Jhumpa Lahiri's new collection of short stories, Unaccustomed Earth, as we'd both loved her 2003 novel The Namesake and her first book of stories, Interpreter of Maladies, which had won the Pulitzer in 1999.

I guess we're all in it together," she said. And I couldn't help but smile at the other meaning of the phrase. We're all in the end-of-our-life book club, whether we acknowledge it or not; each book we read may well be the last, each conversation the final one. I

I live for watching TV and partying with my book club.

It was like hearing my mother was in a book club with Hitler.

They're her book club but I don't know why because they're not reading books.

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.

There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, 'You must read this.' I've always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America, a discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.

My mother had a book club that would dissolve into opening wine.

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.

Inez and I had been in the same book club for a while. She once told me that literary theory was reading without imagination, and I've loved her ever since.

If there is going to be any meaningful sales, it's going to be through word of mouth and people recommending it to their book club and then a thousand more book clubs do it, and then you get into real sales numbers.

They're not crazy. They're exhausted. And partly they're exhausted by people like you reading about the most inflammatory aspects of their culture in some book club, and then getting to hate them for it, because deep down that's what we ignorant, weenie Americans, ever since the towers went down, really want to do. Have permission to hate them.

I think a lot of readers are looking for a book they can talk about.

We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?

Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer says you're out of it.

My website inspired me to create my book club and provides me with a creative outlet where I can write about things that interest me. It's a platform where I can present ideas or new ventures and get feedback straight from the people who mean the most to me.

By the way, I'm not usually attracted to danger," I said. "Up until now I've led a pretty boring life." "Boredom is good!" Dr. Rasman looked pleased. "Boredom is why God invented books. Are you still in your book club?

I can't tell you how excited I was when I joined my first book club, but I can tell you how much I immediately regretted it.

My book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only.

Jeanne, who belonged to a book club where no one ever finished the book. Jeanne, whose primary workout was swimming.

Willi and I might take turns reading aloud passages from some of our favorite books (David Kidd's Peking Story and John Blofeld's City of Lingering Splendour were always at hand), and at least once during each session Willi's wife would come down to the Chamber to say hello and recline for a pipe or two.

I think she was in a book club for a while, but she quit when they stopped talking about the books and started talking about personal things like their feelings.

The kind of intelligent book club discussion as now happens on the book sharing site Goodreads might follow the book itself and become more deeply embedded into the book via hyperlinks. So when a person cites a particular passage, a two-way link connects the comment to the passage and the passage to the comment. Even a minor good work could accumulate a wiki-like set of critical comments tightly bound to the actual text.