Bloom Essential Guide Reading Group Author:Susan Osborne In the past few years the reading group phenomenon has swept the country and more and more people are becoming interested in either becoming a member of one or setting up their own reading group, but how do you go about finding a reading group in your area, or if you are involved in setting one up, how should it be run and what books should ... more » be selected? This volume contains all you need to know to set up and run a reading group. Chapters include: setting up and running a group; reader's guides, covering 50 books - 40 novels and ten non-fiction; synopses of these works to aid a quick choice of a book for discussion; themes, each of which is accompanied by a brief introductory paragraph, followed by a simple list of titles referring back to the readers' guides; resources - an annotated list of useful magazines, books and websites; and suggested further reading - a list of additional, highly recommended titles for discussion.« less