Program Notes for Book Discussion Resources

Thanks to Joan Greene and Lane Byrd for their excellent program on resources for book discussion at the last iPad Club. Here are the Notes for the session.

IPad Club Information....Regarding reading and books and internet ideas....
1. The three books we discussed in the beginning....
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee and GO SET A WATCHMAN BOYS IN THE BOAT by Daniel James Brown
THE WRIGHT BROTHERS by David McCullough
2. We also mentioned books by Neal Stephenson...science fiction .... and later, books by David Rosenfelt ...about dogs and lawyers,

3.

and EUPHORIA by Lily King.
Your local library is a great source for downloading and learning what to read

and perhaps even meeting authors...eBooksForEveryone.org ..... library.clamsnet.org and clamsnet.lib.overdrive.com are all good. Local bookstore websites: www.booksonthecape.com....

4.
www.concordbookshop.com and The Poisoned Pen (AZ) 5. Newspaper resources:

WSJ (Wall Street Journal)....access to book discussions on the WSJ Book Club Facebook page.
NYT (New York Times) books@NYTimes.com Boston Globe..Sunday Book Section
also..bostonglobe.com/arts/books/book_club
Cape Cod Times....book editor is Melanie Lauwers Washington Post...washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books
also....washingtonpost.com/arts and living/books 6.Radio and television ideas:
NPR interviews..shows like Mindy Todd's The Point, Diane Rehm Terry Gross, and look up Maureen Corrigan for good reviews.
Go to NPR Books ...and The Reading Life, a podcast.
on TV....Charlie Rose...many author interviews on line 7. Other sites:

8.

oysterbooks.com (like Netflix for readers) Good Reads...an app
BookBub.com
Googlebooks...huge library of books
Kindle and how to use.....many at the class were interested in this, and could be revisited at another time, perhaps.