"Spunk & Bite" Discussion Tonight at the Library

Join the Brigham City Library Writing Group to discuss Spunk & Bite: A Writer's Guide to Bold, Contemporary Style by Arthur Plotnik on Tuesday, 19 January 2010 at 7:00 p.m. The discussion will be held in the southeast corner of the library's main floor.

Copies of Spunk & Bite are available at the library, 435-723-5850. Please ask for Elizabeth to sign out a copy of the book.

And come discuss with us - even if you didn't get a chance to finish the book.

"Spunk & Bite" Discussion on Tuesday, January 19th

Join the Brigham City Library Writing Group to discuss Spunk & Bite: A Writer's Guide to Bold, Contemporary Style by Arthur Plotnik on Tuesday, 19 January 2010 at 7:00 p.m. The discussion will be held in the southeast corner of the library's main floor.

Copies of Spunk & Bite are available at the library, 435-723-5850. Please ask for Elizabeth to sign out a copy of the book.

And come discuss with us - even if you didn't get a chance to finish the book.

Getting Into Character - Book Discussion

Tonight at 7:00 p.m. the library's writing group will meet to discuss Getting into Character: Seven Secrets a Novelist Can Learn from Actors by Brandilyn Collins.

Everyone is welcome to come and join the discussion. If you'd like to come but haven't read the book, please still join us. Some copies are available to pick up at the library or you can pick up a copy to read the night of the discussion when others are returning theirs.

For more information about the book discussion or the writing group, please call Elizabeth, 723-5850.

Getting Into Character - Book Discussion

1 September 2009 at 7:00 p.m. the library's writing group will meet to discuss Getting into Character: Seven Secrets a Novelist Can Learn from Actors by Brandilyn Collins.

Everyone is welcome to come and join the discussion. If you'd like to come but haven't read the book, please still join us. Some copies are available to pick up at the library or you can pick up a copy to read the night of the discussion when others are returning theirs.

For more information about the book discussion or the writing group, please call Elizabeth, 723-5850.

Writing Group Book Discussion

This fall's book discussion for the writing group is Getting into Character: Seven Secrets a Novelist Can Learn from Actors by Brandilyn Collins.

The discussion will be held on 1 September 2009 at the Brigham City Public Library. If you'd like to read with us and need a copy of the book, please contact Elizabeth, 435-723-5850.

Book Discussion Tonight - Self-Editing for Fiction Writers

On 5 May 2009 at 7 o'clock p.m. the BCPL Writing Group will meet to discuss Self-Editing for Fiction Writers by Renni Browne and Dave King.

So before you send that manuscript off to and editor or an agent, take a look at this book and see how it can help you and your story.

Come and join us as we talk about writing and editing. Don't worry if you didn't get a chance to read the book, you can still come and participate. Maybe you'll get a few helpful hints as the group members discuss the techniques recommended by Browne and King.

For more information about the discussion or the writing group please call Elizabeth, 723-5850.

Book Discussion - Self-Editing for Fiction Writers

On 5 May 2009 at 7 o'clock p.m. the BCPL Writing Group will meet to discuss Self-Editing for Fiction Writers by Renni Browne and Dave King.

So before you send that manuscript off to and editor or an agent, take a look at this book and see how it can help you and your story.

Come and join us as we talk about writing and editing. Don't worry if you didn't get a chance to read the book, you can still come and participate. Maybe you'll get a few helpful hints as the group members discuss the techniques recommended by Browne and King.

For more information about the discussion or the writing group please call Elizabeth, 723-5850.

Book Discussion - Self-Editing for Fiction Writers

On 5 May 2009 at 7 o'clock p.m. the BCPL Writing Group will meet to discuss Self-Editing for Fiction Writers by Renni Browne and Dave King.

So before you send that manuscript off to and editor or an agent, take a look at this book and see how it can help you and your story.

Come and join us as we talk about writing and editing. Don't worry if you didn't get a chance to read the book, you can still come and participate. Maybe you'll get a few helpful hints as the group members discuss the techniques recommended by Browne and King.

For more information about the discussion or the writing group please call Elizabeth, 723-5850.

Writing Group to Discuss Book Tomorrow Night

Come and join the discussion on Tuesday, 30 September 2008 at 7:00 p. m. when the Brigham City Library Writing Group will meet to discuss Writing Magic: Creating Stories that Fly by Gail Carson Levine.

What? You haven't read the book? So come anyway. You can still listen to the discussion and make comments based on your what you think about the topics being discussed and what you've learned during your experiences writing.

To find out more about the Brigham City Library Writing Group check out our web page or call Elizabeth at 723-5850.

Elizabeth

New Book Discussion Started

Have you read this book?

Would you like to discuss it?






Go to the Brigham City Reads online discussion group to contribute to the discussion.

I FINALLY FOUND A BOOK I LOVE AND WILL FINISH

The Knitting Circle: A Novel by Ann Hood

I started reading this book a week ago. I am trying to find books for next year's reading/discussion series called "Neighbors".

I thought this books might be one for the group. I started reading it and I have a hard time putting it down.

While mourning the death of her daughter, Hood (An Ornithologist's Guide to Life) learned to knit. In her comeback novel, Mary Baxter, living in Hood's own Providence, R.I., loses her five-year-old daughter to meningitis. Mary and her husband, Dylan, struggle to preserve their marriage, but the memories are too painful, and the healing too difficult. Mary can't focus on her job as a writer for a local newspaper, and she bitterly resents her emotionally and geographically distant mother, who relocated to Mexico years earlier. Still, it's at her mother's urging that Mary joins a knitting circle and discovers that knitting soothes without distracting. The structure of the story quickly becomes obvious: each knitter has a tragedy that she'll reveal to Mary, and if there's pleasure to be had in reading a novel about grief, it's in guessing what each woman's misfortune is and in what order it will be exposed. The strength of the writing is in the painfully realistic portrayal of the stages of mourning, and though there's a lot of knitting, both actual and metaphorical, the terminology's simple enough for nonknitters to follow and doesn't distract from the quick pace of the narrative.

I love this book. It will be part of next years bookgroup. Part of my being so into the book, was the horror of thinking what if this had happened to me with Jennifer or even if it happened now. Would I survive and be able to function.

sue

LibraryThing - Staff Reccomendations and Online Discussion Group

Looking for book recommendations? We'll we've got a bunch for you. You may already know about the Librarians' Bookshelf, which is an eNewsletter we send out monthly either via e-mail or RSS. This eNewsletter typically has less than 25 recommendations on it each month, but we are now putting the books that appear on the Librarians' Bookshelf eNewsletter (our staff picks) into a larger list of 200 recommendations that is viewable on LibraryThing.

What is LibraryThing? LibraryThing is a social networking site where people can sign-up for a free account and create their own catalog of up to 200 books. They can join online book groups to take part in discussions with other book lovers all around the world. In fact, we've just created a group too! It's called "Brigham City Reads" and it's just getting started. We'd love to make it a place where you can get online to share books you loved with others in the community. I'm hoping that it will come in handy for each of us when we just don't know what to read next. You may get to know other group members by their screen names and find that you like a lot of the books they do. Or maybe something someone says about a book or an author will make you want to give a new book a try.

A LibraryThing group is a great place to talk about books or things that have an obvious association to a book. It's a great way to have an informal chat about the books you're reading or one you're considering. I sometimes finish a book and wonder if other readers came away from it feeling the same as I did. What a great opportunity to try to find out! And you can be as anonymous as you choose. You can use your real name or make your user name something that few, if any, will recognize as you.

Very few rules apply. In the discussion rooms you can say whatever you like, as long as you're nice and don't say offensive things. If you say inappropriate things, other users may flag you, and when enough do, LibraryThing may remove your comment. The library has formed the online group, but individual users are responsible for their own statements.

We've also got a link to the library's LibraryThing 'library'. On the side bar of our blog you'll see some book covers (from our LibraryThing 'library') and right above them you'll see a hyper link called "My Library" that will take you into the complete list of 200 recommendations from our staff. Or you can just click on the "Thingamabrarian" icon to get to the our 'library' as well. As we get new lists of recommendations we'll delete some of the old ones so the list will remain updated.

I signed up for an account of my own not too long ago and have joined a few groups. It's been kind of fun. Sign-up for an account and you can connect with authors, put a widget on your own blog that shows books from your library, and discuss books with other readers. Some of the authors on LibraryThing include: Susan Wittig Albert, Joe Hill, and Sherryl Woods. There are groups to discuss certain author's works as well as certain genre's (i.e. mysteries, thrillers, romance, fantasy, sci-fi). Why not sign-up and see what's there for you, after all, it is free!

If you love books and love sharing them with others or just talking about them, come and join the group now!

Elizabeth