Oprah rounds out the celebrity book club picks for June 2020

Posted on 06/17/2020 at 02:36 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Oprah Winfrey unveiled her latest book club pick yesterday: Deacon King Kong by James McBride. The novel, set in 1969...

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Tagged As: Book club, Diversity, Pop culture

Celebrity book club picks for June 2020, part II

Posted on 06/10/2020 at 04:12 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Reese Witherspoon has made two book club picks to cover June and July. Hello Sunshine members will read I’m Still...

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Tagged As: Book club, Pop culture

Celebrity book club picks for June 2020

Posted on 06/03/2020 at 02:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Celebrity book clubs have released their picks for June. Jenna Bush Hager picked A Burning by Megha Majumdar. The novel...

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Tagged As: Book club, Pop culture

Celebrity book club picks for May 2020

Posted on 05/05/2020 at 04:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Celebrity book clubs have released their picks for May. Jenna Bush Hager picked All Adults Here, by Emma Straub. The...

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Tagged As: Book club, Pop culture

Silent Book Clubs are still meeting ... virtually

Posted on 04/13/2020 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Perhaps you’d been meaning to join a book club this year … but before you could find one, the world...

Tagged As: Book club, coronavirus / COVID-19

How the New York Public Library is trying to make isolation better

Posted on 04/10/2020 at 08:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

None of us can (or should) go to the New York Public Library right now. But its staff doesn’t mind...

Tagged As: Book club, Just for fun, Libraries

Celebrity book club picks for April 2020

Posted on 04/01/2020 at 03:35 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Celebrity book clubs have released their picks for April. Jenna Bush Hager picked Valentine by Elizabeth Wetmore. The novel explores...

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Quarantine reading from throughout history

Posted on 03/31/2020 at 03:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Many of us use books as an escape from reality, so for them, “plague reading” would simply mean fiction they...

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Tagged As: Book club, Book lists, coronavirus / COVID-19, History, Literature in translation, The Guardian

Oprah drops "My Dark Vanessa" from book club — but is that fair?

Posted on 03/06/2020 at 09:30 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell was supposed to be Oprah Winfrey’s book club pick for March 2020. But...

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Tagged As: Book club, Pop culture, Scandal

Oprah Winfrey addresses "American Dirt" book club controversy

Posted on 03/05/2020 at 09:59 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Oprah Winfrey addresses the American Dirt controversy head-on in a show that will air on Apple TV+ tomorrow. After Winfrey...

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Tagged As: Book club, Pop culture, Scandal