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A book discussion club is a group of people who meet to discuss books they have read. It is often simply called a book club , a term that may cause confusion with a book sales club . Other terms include reading group , book group , and book discussion group .
In architecture, a grotesque (/ ɡ r oʊ ˈ t ɛ s k /) is a fantastic or mythical figure carved from stone and fixed to the walls or roof of a building. A chimera ( / k aɪ ˈ m ɪər ə / ) is a type of grotesque depicting a mythical combination of multiple animals (sometimes including humans). [ 1 ]
Oprah's Book Club was a book discussion club segment of the American talk show The Oprah Winfrey Show, highlighting books chosen by host Oprah Winfrey. Winfrey started the book club in 1996, selecting a new book, usually a novel, for viewers to read and discuss each month. [1] [2] [3] In total, the club recommended 70 books during its 15 years.
The Darth Vader grotesque is a limestone grotesque by Jay Hall Carpenter.It is located at the Washington National Cathedral in Northwest, Washington, D.C., United States. [1] [2] Though sometimes seen as a graffito or form of vandalism on the church (due to the pop culture subject matter contrasted with the religious building), it is a deliberate approved addition.
Emma Roberts has shared that the latest selection for her book club, Belletrist, will be the nonfiction book Didion and Babitz by Lili Anolik. The selection marks the beginning of a partnership ...
Junior Library Guild, formerly the Junior Literary Guild, is a commercial book club devoted to juvenile literature. It was created in 1929 as one of the enterprises of the Literary Guild, an adult book club created in 1927 by Samuel W. Craig and Harold K. Guinzburg. [1]
The Atlantic wrote that it "has the potential to be Oprahesque in its influence on book sales", in reference to the Oprah Book Club after the first selection by Moisés Naím caused Amazon's stock to sell out. [28] An article in The New Yorker made a similar comparison to Oprah. [29]
Picturesque America was a two-volume set of books describing and illustrating the scenery of America, which grew out of an earlier series in Appleton's Journal.It was published by D. Appleton and Company of New York in 1872 and 1874 and edited by the romantic poet and journalist William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878), who also edited the New York Evening Post.