BookPeople is thrilled to host nearly staff-run a dozen book clubs every month. All but one of the clubs meets right here in the store. Following are this week’s discussions. We hope you find one that fits your favorite genre! All BookPeople book club meetings are free and open to the public. Book club picks are 10% off for those who attend the meeting. Just let your cashier know you’re buying it for a book club!
Required Reading Revisited Book Club, Sunday, March 8, 4pm
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
When Janie, at sixteen, is caught kissing shiftless Johnny Taylor, her grandmother swiftly marries her off to an old man with sixty acres. Janie endures two stifling marriages before meeting the man of her dreams, who offers not diamonds, but a packet of flowering seeds …
‘For me, THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD is one of the very greatest American novels of the 20th century. It is so lyrical it should be sentimental; it is so passionate it should be overwrought, but it is instead a rigorous, convincing and dazzling piece of prose, as emotionally satisfying as it is impressive. There is no novel I love more.’ — Zadie Smith, author of NW
A heads up for next week: the following bookclubs will be be meeting for the week of 3/15/15!
Ludicrous Speed Book Club 3/16/15, 7pm
Murder in the Afternoon Book Club 3/17/15, 2pm
Nightmare Factory Book Club 3/17/15, 8pm
Stranger Than Fiction Book Club 3/18/15, 7pm
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