![]() ![]() ![]() Through glances at their covers and perhaps an ironic leafing through of their compact pages, I sense a kitschiness that resonates with a certain type of readership, a certain demographic. I have long been interested in the rhetoric and reception of romance genres, though I must admit to not having read a single romance novel, nor do I know anyone who has read one. The book for tonight: Mad, Bad, and Dangerous in Plaid by Suzanne Enoch. Notes are prepared, talking points fleshed out, questions drafted to pose. ![]() What these really highly skilled readers do, while sharing wine and cheese, is to gather for one hour of discussion on the third Friday of each month. Readers who in one month get through five or six of the type of book we’re discussing,” Destinee, the leader of tonight’s Really Reading Romance group, tells me. ![]() “What we are is a group of really highly skilled readers, maybe even some writers. Home chefs can attend Saturday Supper Club to discuss a recent cookbook, for example attendees of W(h)ine and Angst are adults who enjoy YA novels Well-Read Black Girl Book Club is just as the name suggests and Stranger Than Fiction focuses on memoirs and “timely” narrative non-fiction. Indeed, the store’s book clubs - all named and branded by Lordson - offer opportunities not only to read across genres broader than merely fiction or non, but also to develop one’s identity politic as a reader. ![]()
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