http://www.examiner.com/x-13062-Sacramento-Book-Club-Examiner?cid=exrss-Sacramento-Book-Club-Examiner en-us Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:24:49 -0700 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:54:59 -0700 BlogCFC http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.examiner.com/x-13062-Sacramento-Book-Club-Examiner~y2009m11d6-Book-clubs-are-talking-about-author-John-Irving--some-mistakes-can-never-be-redeemed?cid=exrss-Sacramento-Book-Club-Examiner When National Book Award-winning author of Last Night at Twisted River, John Irving, spoke at Sacramento’s Crest Theater last night at a California Lectures event, he told his riveted full house of readers that he learned his most significant l... book sacramento literary book club banned books john irving Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:54:59 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-13062-Sacramento-Book-Club-Examiner~y2009m11d6-Book-clubs-are-talking-about-author-John-Irving--some-mistakes-can-never-be-redeemed?cid=exrss-Sacramento-Book-Club-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-13062-Sacramento-Book-Club-Examiner~y2009m10d25-Second-in-Food-Book-Talk-Series-Today?cid=exrss-Sacramento-Book-Club-Examiner The Arden Dimick Open Book Club meets at 2:00 p.m. today, Sunday, October 25, at the Arden Dimick Library Community Room, to discuss the second in its fall series of food-related books, Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food.  The group prev... sustainable book club video talks readings Sun, 25 Oct 2009 11:35:53 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-13062-Sacramento-Book-Club-Examiner~y2009m10d25-Second-in-Food-Book-Talk-Series-Today?cid=exrss-Sacramento-Book-Club-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-13062-Sacramento-Book-Club-Examiner~y2009m10d7-Book-club-101-ten-ways-to-enhance-your-book-club-meetings?cid=exrss-Sacramento-Book-Club-Examiner Unlock your book talk. Try the ten keys to your left. (by Anita Scharf) Even book clubs who are deeply comfortable with the way they have been meeting and speaking about books for years can benefit from a little shake-up every now and then. Believe ... events culture book club Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:53:52 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-13062-Sacramento-Book-Club-Examiner~y2009m10d7-Book-club-101-ten-ways-to-enhance-your-book-club-meetings?cid=exrss-Sacramento-Book-Club-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-13062-Sacramento-Book-Club-Examiner~y2009m8d14-Official-Woodstock-photographer-Jim-Marshalls-book-Proof-shows-the-photos-behind-the-photos-we-know?cid=exrss-Sacramento-Book-Club-Examiner   Readers celebrating the fortieth anniversary of Woodstock can choose no better book than historic rock photographer Jim Marshall’s Proof,  a big book of pictures you will actually read addictively, return to, pull out at parties, ... Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:30:14 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-13062-Sacramento-Book-Club-Examiner~y2009m8d14-Official-Woodstock-photographer-Jim-Marshalls-book-Proof-shows-the-photos-behind-the-photos-we-know?cid=exrss-Sacramento-Book-Club-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-13062-Sacramento-Book-Club-Examiner~y2009m8d14-Rock-and-roll-documentary-VIDEOS-on-Woodstock-photographer-Jim-Marshall?cid=exrss-Sacramento-Book-Club-Examiner Woodstock afficionados will enjoy this documentary video of rock and roll photographer Jim Marshall, shot and edited by Brian Pollzzie in 2007. In this video, Marshall discusses the experience of photographing John Coltrane, Janis Joplin, Duane Allma... book Woodstock video jim marshall photography Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:29:31 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-13062-Sacramento-Book-Club-Examiner~y2009m8d14-Rock-and-roll-documentary-VIDEOS-on-Woodstock-photographer-Jim-Marshall?cid=exrss-Sacramento-Book-Club-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-13062-Sacramento-Book-Club-Examiner~y2009m8d13-Five-books-for-book-clubs-who-love-Mad-Mens-Don-and-Betty-Draper?cid=exrss-Sacramento-Book-Club-Examiner  If your book club members are as obsessed as most well-read, sensible, good-tv fans are with AMC’s Mad Men, set to begin its third season this Sunday night, how about organizing a book clubs series around Mad Men literature? Here are fiv... book literary book club mad men Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:44:29 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-13062-Sacramento-Book-Club-Examiner~y2009m8d13-Five-books-for-book-clubs-who-love-Mad-Mens-Don-and-Betty-Draper?cid=exrss-Sacramento-Book-Club-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-13062-Sacramento-Book-Club-Examiner~y2009m8d13-Book-Club-101--discussion-questions-for-The-Stories-of-John-Cheever?cid=exrss-Sacramento-Book-Club-Examiner   If your book club is hooked on AMC's Mad Men, starting its third season this Sunday, suggest they scratch that itch in a literary way by reading and discussing Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner's source material, The Stories of John Cheever.Here... book literary book club mad men john cheever american literature Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:41:03 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-13062-Sacramento-Book-Club-Examiner~y2009m8d13-Book-Club-101--discussion-questions-for-The-Stories-of-John-Cheever?cid=exrss-Sacramento-Book-Club-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-13062-Sacramento-Book-Club-Examiner~y2009m8d7-Books-and-libraries-who-will-use-them?cid=exrss-Sacramento-Book-Club-Examiner Santa Clara University's gorgeous new library, where the books are hidden. Who reads anymore?  More specifically, who reads books?  And most specifically, who reads books they find in libraries? In the Chronicle of Higher Education, Thoma... banned books book clubs george orwell library Fri, 07 Aug 2009 13:09:28 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-13062-Sacramento-Book-Club-Examiner~y2009m8d7-Books-and-libraries-who-will-use-them?cid=exrss-Sacramento-Book-Club-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-13062-Sacramento-Book-Club-Examiner~y2009m8d4-Julia-Child-in-literature--the-foodloving-worldchanging-internationalspy-book-clubs-love?cid=exrss-Sacramento-Book-Club-Examiner Julia Child as television chef. AP photo. Book clubs are buzzing about Julia Child, many provoked not only by the upcoming Julia & Julia film, but also by cyber-ink recently devoted to the female figure most baby boomers remember as 1970s Dan Ak... book club food Julia Child Tue, 04 Aug 2009 14:42:47 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-13062-Sacramento-Book-Club-Examiner~y2009m8d21-Julia-Child-in-literature--the-foodloving-worldchanging-internationalspy-book-clubs-love?cid=exrss-Sacramento-Book-Club-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-13062-Sacramento-Book-Club-Examiner~y2009m7d29-What-do-book-clubs-think--Will-Barnes--Noble-free-WiFi-lead-you-to-linger-longer-and-buy-more?cid=exrss-Sacramento-Book-Club-Examiner Barnes & Noble offers free Wi-Fi to tempt us to buy.  Carolyn Kaster / AP Go back to the beginning -- Chris Anderson's Free, The Future of a Radical Price.Motoko Rich reports Barnes & Noble CEO Steve Riggio's take on a new freemium servi... culture digital book club writing Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:29:36 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-13062-Sacramento-Book-Club-Examiner~y2009m7d29-What-do-book-clubs-think--Will-Barnes--Noble-free-WiFi-lead-you-to-linger-longer-and-buy-more?cid=exrss-Sacramento-Book-Club-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-13062-Sacramento-Book-Club-Examiner~y2009m7d29-What-do-book-clubs-think--Do-publishing-paradigms-of-the-last-era-have-no-current-meaning?cid=exrss-Sacramento-Book-Club-Examiner Unused SF news boxes: a sign of changing news times? Noah Berger/AP Go back to the beginning -- Chris Anderson's Free, The Future of a Radical Price.In a Salon interview with Frank Hornig, Chris Anderson (author of Free) tells us about the future of ... culture digital book club writing Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:16:51 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-13062-Sacramento-Book-Club-Examiner~y2009m7d29-What-do-book-clubs-think--Do-publishing-paradigms-of-the-last-era-have-no-current-meaning?cid=exrss-Sacramento-Book-Club-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-13062-Sacramento-Book-Club-Examiner~y2009m7d29-What-do-book-clubs-think-Do-online-readers-prefer-information-snacking-over-a-full-meal?cid=exrss-Sacramento-Book-Club-Examiner Info bites or info meals? Morry Gash / AP   Go back to the beginning -- Chris Anderson's Free, The Future of a Radical Price.In his book Free, Chris Anderson asserts that most of us already gravitate to what we can get free, rather than what we... culture digital book club writing Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:14:33 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-13062-Sacramento-Book-Club-Examiner~y2009m7d29-What-do-book-clubs-think-Do-online-readers-prefer-information-snacking-over-a-full-meal?cid=exrss-Sacramento-Book-Club-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-13062-Sacramento-Book-Club-Examiner~y2009m7d29-Book-clubs-are-talking-about--Chris-Andersons-Free--the-future-of-a-radical-price?cid=exrss-Sacramento-Book-Club-Examiner Chris Anderson's controversial Free. Book clubs with a bent for non-fiction are no doubt already aware that Wired editor-in-chief Chris Anderson has provoked a virtual, global food fight between writers, publishers, readers and consumers with his co... culture digital book club writing Wed, 29 Jul 2009 10:52:46 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-13062-Sacramento-Book-Club-Examiner~y2009m7d29-Book-clubs-are-talking-about--Chris-Andersons-Free--the-future-of-a-radical-price?cid=exrss-Sacramento-Book-Club-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-13062-Sacramento-Book-Club-Examiner~y2009m7d28-Book-club-101--discussion-questions-for-Ruth-Reichls-Tender-at-the-Bone?cid=exrss-Sacramento-Book-Club-Examiner Reichl's Tender at the Bone shares a food writer's development In Tender at the Bone, author Ruth Reichl describes the development of her life as a chef and food writer in some of the greatest restaurants, newspapers and food magazines in the c... book club food Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:57:15 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-13062-Sacramento-Book-Club-Examiner~y2009m7d28-Book-club-101--discussion-questions-for-Ruth-Reichls-Tender-at-the-Bone?cid=exrss-Sacramento-Book-Club-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-13062-Sacramento-Book-Club-Examiner~y2009m7d28-part-two?cid=exrss-Sacramento-Book-Club-Examiner "Gypsy chef" Tender author, Ruth Reichl.  PR photo. Go back to book club questions, part one. 6. Reichl describes a series of adult figures with whom she bonded over food, including Aunt Birdie, Alice, Mrs. Peavey and Marion Cunningha... book club food Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:55:30 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-13062-Sacramento-Book-Club-Examiner~y2009m7d28-part-two?cid=exrss-Sacramento-Book-Club-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-13062-Sacramento-Book-Club-Examiner~y2009m7d24-Book-club-101--five-things-Sacramento-readers-can-do-in-town-to-scratch-that-local-literary-itch?cid=exrss-Sacramento-Book-Club-Examiner Sacramento author, Joan Didion. AP Photo/Kathy Willens Sacramento book lovers can try the following five ways for looking beyond once-a-month book club meetings to scratch their local literary itch: Subscribe to our local literary series &ndash... sacramento literary arts one book book club Fri, 24 Jul 2009 18:57:04 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-13062-Sacramento-Book-Club-Examiner~y2009m7d24-Book-club-101--five-things-Sacramento-readers-can-do-in-town-to-scratch-that-local-literary-itch?cid=exrss-Sacramento-Book-Club-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-13062-Sacramento-Book-Club-Examiner~y2009m7d22-Writing-101--how-to-write-purposefully-part-two?cid=exrss-Sacramento-Book-Club-Examiner Readers need a map. (Blanton-Stroud/cc) Many people who must write or speak to groups as part of their work life struggle to improve the effectiveness, the purposefulness, of that communication.  Business speaking coach Sims Wyeth suggests how ... writing clarity plain English purpose focus Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:53:48 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-13062-Sacramento-Book-Club-Examiner~y2009m7d22-Writing-101--how-to-write-purposefully-part-two?cid=exrss-Sacramento-Book-Club-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-13062-Sacramento-Book-Club-Examiner~y2009m7d22-Writing-101--how-to-write-purposefully-part-one?cid=exrss-Sacramento-Book-Club-Examiner Korelitz artfully focuses in Admission. In a chaotic world of diffuse information and ideas, a good writer will focus on delivering a specific message that achieves her purpose. I find this skill in two books that superficiallly have nothing much in... writing clarity plain English purpose focus Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:51:55 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-13062-Sacramento-Book-Club-Examiner~y2009m7d22-Writing-101--how-to-write-purposefully-part-one?cid=exrss-Sacramento-Book-Club-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-13062-Sacramento-Book-Club-Examiner~y2009m7d20-This-weeks-Open-Book-Club-selection--Art-Spiegelmans-Pulitzer-Prizewinning-graphic-memoir-Maus?cid=exrss-Sacramento-Book-Club-Examiner Spiegelman's Pulitzer graphic memoir, Maus II. Coinciding with the international Comic Con 2009 convention taking place in San Diego this week, the Arden Dimick Open Book Club will meet Sunday (July 26) to discuss the third in our three-part summer ... culture book club comic books graphic novel Mon, 20 Jul 2009 13:10:20 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-13062-Sacramento-Book-Club-Examiner~y2009m7d20-This-weeks-Open-Book-Club-selection--Art-Spiegelmans-Pulitzer-Prizewinning-graphic-memoir-Maus?cid=exrss-Sacramento-Book-Club-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-13062-Sacramento-Book-Club-Examiner~y2009m7d20-Book-club-101--discussion-questions-for-Art-Spiegelmans-graphic-memoir-Maus-I--II?cid=exrss-Sacramento-Book-Club-Examiner Spiegelman, in a mouse mask, in book club selection Maus.   This week the Arden Dimick Library Open Book Club discusses Art Spiegelman's Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus I:  My Father Bleeds History and Maus II:  Here My Troubles Began.&nb... book club graphic novel comic book Mon, 20 Jul 2009 13:06:17 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-13062-Sacramento-Book-Club-Examiner~y2009m7d20-Book-club-101--discussion-questions-for-Art-Spiegelmans-graphic-memoir-Maus-I--II?cid=exrss-Sacramento-Book-Club-Examiner