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Last week I posted the first half of my “top ten” list—my answers to the questions I hear most often when visiting book clubs. If you’d like me to visit your book club, contact me through the website or Facebook. I can phone in or even come in person if you don’t live too far away!
And now, the rest of the list:
I’ve visited a lot of book clubs in the year since The Bookman’s Tale was published in hardcover and I always enjoy hearing readers’ take on the story of Peter and Amanda and William Shakespeare. Here are some short answers to the questions I hear most often.
Years ago (while I was in college, so let’s say many years ago) I belonged to a book club. I was a theatre student and joining a theatre book club seemed a good way to build a library of scripts for my future as a Broadway director. Recently, I consigned the last of those book club editions to the Goodwill box. It’s not just that both my life and my book collecting have moved in a different direction; it’s also that those old book club editions feel . . . well to be honest they feel exactly what they are—cheap. The simple fact is that most collectors avoid book club editions, and it might be worth examining why.