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8. How do they help people?
9. What social groups do book clubs help meet each other?
10. What social function do book clubs perform?
Book Clubs
Reading is an important activity for many Americans. Today, thousands of
men, women and children belong to groups to discuss the books they read.
No one is sure how many Americans belong to reading groups called book
clubs. Yet publishers and bookstores report that more and more people throughout the
United States are joining them.
Most of the clubs work the same way. Members read the same book at the
same time. Then they meet to talk about the book.
Members may be friends or people who live near each other. Or, they may be
people who work together. Some book clubs develop from other organizations.
Religious and community groups often establish book clubs.
Some Americans belong to reading groups on the computer service known as
the Internet. These groups include people around the world who communicate about
books they read. These people send electronic mail instead of meeting to discuss
books.
Book clubs may be for only women or only men. Or, they can be for husbands
and wives together. Some are family groups where parents attend with their children.
Children may belong to book clubs of their own.
Most reading groups study books by a number of writers. However, some
groups read the work of a single writer, usually one that has been famous for a while.
William Shakespeare, James Joyce, Jane Austen, George Bernard Shaw and Mark
Twain are examples.
Other groups may be named for an important person in the work of the writer,
like a Sherlock Holmes Club. Holmes is the great British crime investigator created
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Members of these book clubs often are experts about their chosen reading
material. For example, one member of a Holmes reading group can identify almost
every person in every Sherlock Holmes story.
Some book clubs meet in homes. Other clubs meet in a religious center or work
place. Some gather in a bookstore, a public information center or library. A few
always have a meal at the same eating place.

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