Book Club Brouhaha

Leave it to the New York Times to find some hyper-competitive, highly-strung types to turn the simple concept of a book club into a battlefield.

Forget the idea of genteel book clubs in which members drink tea and discuss big book ideas. According to the Times, hard feelings develop among some book club members when they can’t agree on book picks, lit crit, club politics and more; it can really become quite complicated when the guests hate your choice of wine or if members want to duke it out over John Grisham versus John Updike. Then there are the ones who want to get tipsy and unload about their significant other instead of the book. Maybe reading is best done alone.

Posted by Paula Krapf of Author Marketing Experts, Inc.