Quite often the librarian who runs our library book club will ask for suggestions -its difficult finding a book which has sufficient copies available in our catalogue, which avid readers haven't read!
Litclub, a section of the Litlovers site is designed for just this situation. I was impressed with the variety of titles recommended and even more when I checked out the resources. Selecting a book I knew "Out Stealing Horses" by Per Pettersen, the site gave a summary of the book, an author's bio, critics reports, reviews, and to top it all ten searching questions leading to good discussion.
Sometimes I do a radio slot and it would be handy to use the site to check on awards, other books by the author etc. The part devoted to setting up a kids club was interesting but the Blog contained the fun-although there's a Litfun too!
I thought I could profit from trying two of the courses, but unfortunately our catalogue does not have the books listed to study. Out of the eleven books, the only one available is Edith Wharton's "Roman Fever" (far from being a favourite author of mine!)
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Hi Rosenpage
Great to see that you have had a good look at Litlovers, I liked it too :-)Your book Out Stealing Horses sounds interesting will have a look for that one :-)Please read the instructions for the rest of this exercise Week 3 Thing 6 Authors on the Web and Bookjetty and Thing 7 to complete Week 3. Have fun :-)
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