I am a librarian and book group leader who has led book groups in public libraries, bookstores, boardrooms, executive conference rooms, living rooms, retirement communities, restaurants, churches and synagogues.
About ten years ago my father, Ed Fleishman, a professional New York club date musician, was in the Intensive Care unit of North Shore Hospital on Long Island following emergency heart surgery.
In 2007, a lecture was given at Carnegie Mellon University by Randy Pausch, a 46-year-old professor, entrepreneur and family-man diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer.
I get the most inquiries about book groups during the first week in January--a time of resolutions for better minds and bodies. In the interest of improving both, here's what you can absorb
All Seasons Readers drive through the snow to get to book group, brush beach sand off summer chick-lit and read paperbacks at the movies waiting for the film to start.