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FROM: "SHARRON SMITH" <[removed]@kpl.org>
REC'D: 11/9/99, 1:28 PM

We are looking at organizing a bookclub that will be targeted at Mothers and
their adult daughters in the new year. Has anyone tried this type of group?
Any pointers or ideas for titles that were especially effective, would be
greatly appreciated.

TIA
Sharron Smith
Readers' Advisory Librarian
Kitchener Public Library
Kitchener, ON Canada

www.kpl.org <<A HREF="http://www.kpl.org">http://www.kpl.org</A>>

FROM: <[removed]@lib.cnib.ca>
REC'D: 11/9/99, 4:01 PM

Amy Tan's the Joy Luck Club is an excellent one for this type of group. It deals with the generation gap between mothers and
daughters as well as the cultural gap that emerges as immigrant mothers push their daughters to be "American".

Nicole Patterson
Supervisor, Reader Services
CNIB Library for the Blind
Toronto, ON

>>> [removed]@kpl.org" 09/11/1999 3:25:43 pm >>>
We are looking at organizing a bookclub that will be targeted at Mothers and
their adult daughters in the new year. Has anyone tried this type of group?
Any pointers or ideas for titles that were especially effective, would be
greatly appreciated.

TIA
Sharron Smith
Readers' Advisory Librarian
Kitchener Public Library
Kitchener, ON Canada

www.kpl.org <<A HREF="http://www.kpl.org">http://www.kpl.org</A>>

FROM: "Jo Berkman" <[removed]@i-2000.com>
REC'D: 11/9/99, 4:10 PM

Three Women by Marge Piercy would be an excellent choice as it examines three
generations of women and their relationships.
Jo Berkman

SHARRON SMITH wrote:
>
> We are looking at organizing a bookclub that will be targeted at Mothers and
> their adult daughters in the new year. Has anyone tried this type of group?
> Any pointers or ideas for titles that were especially effective, would be
> greatly appreciated.
>
> TIA
> Sharron Smith
> Readers' Advisory Librarian
> Kitchener Public Library
> Kitchener, ON Canada
>
> www.kpl.org <<A HREF="http://www.kpl.org">http://www.kpl.org</A>>

FROM: "Barbara Case" <[removed]@metronet.lib.mi.us>
REC'D: 11/10/99, 8:37 AM

I would suggest One True Thing by Anna Quindlen, Daughters of Memory by
Janis Arnold, Anywhere but Here by Mona Simpson, and Divine Secrets of the
Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells.

On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, SHARRON SMITH wrote:

> We are looking at organizing a bookclub that will be targeted at Mothers and
> their adult daughters in the new year. Has anyone tried this type of group?
> Any pointers or ideas for titles that were especially effective, would be
> greatly appreciated.
>
> TIA
> Sharron Smith
> Readers' Advisory Librarian
> Kitchener Public Library
> Kitchener, ON Canada
>
> www.kpl.org <<A HREF="http://www.kpl.org">http://www.kpl.org</A>>
>
>

FROM: <[removed]@infoave.net>
REC'D: 11/10/99, 8:41 AM

How about Charms for the East Life by Kaye Gibbons?

Debbie Spear
Greenville (SC) County Library

FROM: "Kathy Mitchum" <[removed]@ckls.org>
REC'D: 11/10/99, 4:33 PM

I haven't used this in a group, but I particularly like Elaine Kagan's Blue
Heaven--it gives food for thought from the perspectives of 3 generations of
women whose ages range from 18 to Alzheimer's patient.

At 02:34 PM 11/9/99 -0500, you wrote:
>We are looking at organizing a bookclub that will be targeted at Mothers and
>their adult daughters in the new year. Has anyone tried this type of group?
>Any pointers or ideas for titles that were especially effective, would be
>greatly appreciated.
>
>TIA
>Sharron Smith
>Readers' Advisory Librarian
>Kitchener Public Library
>Kitchener, ON Canada
>
>www.kpl.org <<A HREF="http://www.kpl.org">http://www.kpl.org</A>>
>
Kathy Mitchum
ILL/Ref/Rural Serv/Tech Serv, Dept. Head
Central Kansas Library System
[removed]@ckls.org

FROM: <[removed]@aol.com>
REC'D: 11/10/99, 6:50 PM

Once again, in our replies, we are assuming that mothers and daughters in a
book club together will only want to read books ABOUT mothers and daughters.
That is, IMHO, a mistake. Perhaps they will want to participate in the
activity together, but read a variety of books that would appeal to any
predominantly female book group (is that redundant)?

Having said that, let me add
A MOTHER AND TWO DAUGHERS by Gail Godwin

Sherri McCarthy

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