Book Club Discussion Guides

Video Transcript

"I'm Jeanna Rock and we're talking about book club discussion guides. The simplest place to find questions or ideas about discussing your book is actually in the back of some of your books. Now a days because book groups are so popular, a lot of publishers actually produce a book that is intended for a book discussion and they'll have questions in the back of the book that you can use. If your book doesn't have that, go on line. Quite a few books have discussions on line, questions on line. I know as a teacher, when I'm preparing to teach a novel, I'll go on line as well because quite a few places like SparkNotes will have on line discussions where you can find questions that you can bring to your book group and discuss. You don't have to limit your discussion questions to published ones. As you're reading your novel, just think about questions that you have. And quite often, you can just open the book, the discussion up to the group and they can come up with their own questions that need to be answered. It's been my experience that when we start asking questions in our group, we don't stay with the questions, we go off onto our own tangents and discuss what's important to us. So don't depend too much on finding questions for your book. Your book group will find their own questions."