Download or read book Study Guide for Book Clubs the Storied Life of A J Fikry written by Kathryn Cope and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-04 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking to improve your book club discussions? Wish you had time to prepare for your reading group meetings more thoroughly? Then try this essential book club companion. Study Guides for Book Clubs provide all the information you need for your book club meeting. Each easy-to-follow guide gives an accessible, comprehensive overview of a recommended book club read. This useful resource will help you to: Recap on finer plot points Understand themes, characters & literary context Analyse the text in a more effective way Stimulate a lively, dynamic discussion Inside this informative guide to The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin you'll find: A full plot summary Author biography Discussion of genre & style Discussion of themes & symbols Detailed character notes Useful literary & background context Thought-provoking discussion questions A quick quiz Further reading recommendations Study Guides for Book Clubs are the ideal resource for reading group members or book club discussion leaders. They keep your book group meetings interesting by enhancing understanding and enjoyment of your chosen novel. Armed with these guides, your discussions will be more in-depth, focussed and rewarding. Order your copy today! ⚠ PLEASE NOTE: This is an unofficial and independent companion guide to The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin. It does not contain the original text of The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry and is meant to be read in conjunction with this book. Please read the original book first as this guide contains spoilers. About the Author Kathryn Cope is a lifelong book lover and book club enthusiast. She has a BA in English Literature and an MA in Contemporary Fiction. Kathryn is the author of Study Guides for Book Clubs and the HarperCollins Official Book Club Guides.
Download or read book The Storied life of A J Fikry written by Gabrielle Zevin and published by . This book was released on 2023-10-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A.J. Fikry owns a failing bookshop. His wife has just died, in tragic circumstances. His rare and valuable first edition has been stolen. His life is a wreck. Amelia is a book rep, with a big heart, and a lonely life Maya is the baby who ends up on A.J.'s bookshop floor with a note. What happens in the bookshop that changes the lives of these seemingly normal but extraordinary characters? This is the story of how unexpected love can rescue you and bring you back to real life, in a world that you won't want to leave, with characters that you will come to love.
Download or read book The Storied Life of A J Fikry written by Kathryn Cope and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No reading group should be without this companion guide to Gabrielle Zevin's novel, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry.A comprehensive guide to this contemporary bestseller, this discussion aid includes all the information you need to get your book club discussion going: useful literary context; an author biography; full plot synopsis; themes; character analysis; discussion questions; recommended further reading and a quick quiz.
Download or read book The Hole We re In written by Gabrielle Zevin and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2010-03-09 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “sharply funny and sobering . . . portrait of a family in financial free fall” from the New York Times–bestselling author of Young Jane Young (People). With The Hole We’re In—a bold, timeless, yet all too timely novel about a troubled American family navigating an even more troubled America—award-winning author and screenwriter, Gabrielle Zevin, delivers a work that places her in the ranks of our shrewdest social observers and top literary talents. Meet the Pomeroys: a church-going family living in a too-red house in a Texas college town. Roger, the patriarch, has impulsively gone back to school, only to find his future ambitions at odds with the temptations of the present. His wife, Georgia, tries to keep things afloat at home, but she’s been feeding the bill drawer with unopened envelopes for months and never manages to confront its swelling contents. In an attempt to climb out of the holes they’ve dug, Roger and Georgia make a series of choices that have catastrophic consequences for their three children—especially for Patsy, the youngest, who will spend most of her life fighting to overcome them. The Hole We’re In shines a spotlight on some of the most relevant issues of today: over-reliance on credit, gender and class politics, and the war in Iraq. But it is Zevin’s deft exploration of the fragile economy of family life that makes this a book for the ages. “Blazing . . . Sharp . . . a Corrections for our recessionary times . . . [Zevin] establishes herself as an astute chronicler of the way we spend now.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review
Download or read book Margarettown written by Gabrielle Zevin and published by . This book was released on 2006-11-16 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It could be about anyone - you, your parents, your best friends. But it's not. It's about a woman called Margaret Towne, and the man who falls in love with her . . . The day he meets Maggie for the first time is the day he understands what it is to be in love. Deeply, wildly, terminally in love. What he doesn't know is that loving Maggie means loving many women at once. After a brief, intense courtship the two young lovers set off to meet Maggie's family: Margaret, Maggie, Marge, Mia and May - five women of different ages, all living together in a house called Margaron, in a place called Margarettown. Nothing in Maggie's world is quite like anywhere else. Part memoir, part fable, part journey through the many worlds of one woman, MAGARETTOWN is a novel about how love takes us over and changes our lives; how it makes lies out of truth and truth out of lies. It is the story of what it takes to love the same person for a lifetime - and about the impossibility of really knowing anything about who it is we have come to love.
Download or read book Study Guide written by Supersummary and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-03 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality study guides for challenging works of literature. This 50-page guide for "The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry" by Gabrielle Zevin includes detailed chapter summaries and analysis covering 13 chapters, as well as several more in-depth sections of expert-written literary analysis. Featured content includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay topics, and key themes like The Overlap between Literature and Life and The Power of Books.
Download or read book Study Guide for Book Clubs written by Kathryn Cope and published by Kathryn Cope. This book was released on 2020-10-24 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential tool for all reading groups! No reading group should be without this book club companion to Amor Towles's acclaimed novel, A Gentleman in Moscow. This comprehensive guide includes useful literary context; a full plot summary, discussion of themes and symbols; detailed character notes; thought-provoking discussion questions; recommended further reading and a quick quiz. Study Guides for Book Clubs are designed to help you get the absolute best from your book club meetings. They enable reading group members to appreciate their chosen book in greater depth than ever before. Please be aware that this is a companion guide and does not contain the full text of the novel.
Download or read book Escaping Dreamland written by Charlie Lovett and published by Blackstone Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Parrish’s childhood obsession with series books like the Hardy Boys and Tom Swift inspired him to become an author. Just as his debut novel becomes a bestseller, his relationship with his girlfriend, Rebecca, begins to fall apart. Robert realizes he must confront his secret demons by fulfilling a youthful promise to solve a mystery surrounding his favorite series—the Tremendous Trio. Guided by twelve tattered books and an unidentified but tantalizing fragment of a story, Robert journeys into the history of the books that changed his life, hoping they can help him once again. His odyssey takes him to 1906 Manhattan, a time of steamboats, boot blacks, and Fifth Avenue mansions, but every discovery he makes only leads to more questions. Robert’s quest intertwines with the stories of three young people trying to define their places in the world at the dawn of a new and exciting century. Magda, Gene, and Tom not only write the children’s books that Robert will one day love, together they explore the vibrant city on their doorstep, from the Polo Grounds to Coney Island’s Dreamland, drawing the reader into the Gilded Age as their own friendships deepen. The connections between the authors, their creations, and Robert’s redemptive journey make for a beautifully crafted novel that is an ode to the children’s series books of our past, to New York City, and above all, to the power of love and friendship.
Download or read book Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow written by Gabrielle Zevin and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2024-06-25 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A GLOBE AND MAIL BESTSELLER A JIMMY FALLON BOOK CLUB PICK In this exhilarating novel by the best-selling author of The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry two friends—often in love, but never lovers—come together as creative partners in the world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and, ultimately, a kind of immortality. "Utterly brilliant. In this sweeping, gorgeously written novel, Gabrielle Zevin charts the beauty, tenacity, and fragility of human love and creativity. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is one of the best books I've ever read." —John Green On a bitter cold day, in the December of his Junior Year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green. He calls her name. For a moment, she pretends she hasn’t heard him, but then, she turns, and a game begins: a legendary collaboration that will launch them to stardom. They borrow money, beg favors, and, before even graduating college, they have created their first blockbuster, Ichigo: a game where players can escape the confines of a body and the betrayals of a heart, and where death means nothing more than a chance to restart and play again. This is the story of the perfect worlds Sam and Sadie build, the imperfect world they live in, and of everything that comes after success: Money. Fame. Duplicity. Tragedy. Spanning over thirty years, from Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Venice Beach, California, and lands in between and far beyond, Gabrielle Zevin’s Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is a dazzling and intricately imagined novel that examines the multifarious nature of identity, games as artform, technology and the human experience, disability, failure, the redemptive possibilities in play, and above all, our need to connect: to be loved and to love. Yes, it is a love story, but it is not one you have read before.
Download or read book The Storied Life of A J Fikry A Novel by Gabrielle Zevin Conversation Starters written by dailyBooks and published by . This book was released on 2016-09-02 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry: by Gabrielle Zevin | Conversation Starters A Brief Look Inside: The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry is a heartwarming book about a lonely man who finds true love, happiness, and friendship. The story is about AJ, a disgruntled bookshop owner who doesn’t care for anyone, including his customers. AJ gradually brings the love of books into the lives of the people on the island where he lives. He develops into a nicer and more dependable person over the years because of the love of a child. The author sets out to show the joy that books can bring into one's life and the importance of a thriving bookshop and literary culture in a community. EVERY GOOD BOOK CONTAINS A WORLD FAR DEEPER than the surface of its pages. The characters and their world come alive, and the characters and its world still live on. Conversation Starters is peppered with questions designed to bring us beneath the surface of the page and invite us into the world that lives on. These questions can be used to... Create Hours of Conversation: • Foster a deeper understanding of the book • Promote an atmosphere of discussion for groups • Assist in the study of the book, either individually or corporately • Explore unseen realms of the book as never seen before Disclaimer: This book you are about to enjoy is an independent resource to supplement the original book, enhancing your experience of The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry. If you have not yet purchased a copy of the original book, please do before purchasing this unofficial Conversation Starters.
Download or read book Study Guide for Book Clubs The Overstory written by Kathryn Cope and published by Kathryn Cope. This book was released on 2020-10-23 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential tool for all reading groups! No reading group should be without this book club companion to Richard Powers's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Overstory. This comprehensive guide includes useful literary context; a full plot summary, discussion of themes and symbols; detailed character notes; thought-provoking discussion questions; recommended further reading and a quick quiz. Study Guides for Book Clubs are designed to help you get the absolute best from your book club meetings. They enable reading group members to appreciate their chosen book in greater depth than ever before. Please be aware that this is a companion guide and does not contain the full text of the novel.
Download or read book Elsewhere written by Gabrielle Zevin and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a novel of hope, love, and redemption.
Download or read book Study Guide for Book Clubs Educated written by Kathryn Cope and published by Kathryn Cope. This book was released on 2020-10-24 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential tool for all reading groups – a detailed guide to the New York Times bestselling memoir, Educated! A comprehensive guide to Tara Westover's memoir Educated, this discussion aid includes a wealth of information and resources: thought-provoking discussion questions; useful literary context; an author biography; a plot summary; analyses of themes & imagery; character analysis; recommended further reading and even a quick quiz. Study Guides for Book Clubs are designed to help you get the absolute best from your book club meetings. They enable reading group members to appreciate their chosen book in greater depth than ever before. Please be aware that this is a companion guide and does not contain the full text of the novel.
Download or read book Study Guide for Book Clubs Normal People written by Kathryn Cope and published by Kathryn Cope. This book was released on 2020-10-23 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential tool for all reading groups! No reading group should be without this book club companion to Sally Rooney's bestselling novel, Normal People. This comprehensive guide includes background to the novel, a full plot summary, discussion of themes, detailed character notes, thought-provoking discussion questions, and even a quick quiz. Study Guides for Book Clubs are designed to help you get the absolute best from your book club meetings. They enable reading group members to appreciate their chosen book in greater depth than ever before. Please be aware that this is a companion guide and does not contain the full text of the novel.
Download or read book Study Guide for Book Clubs The Nickel Boys written by Kathryn Cope and published by Kathryn Cope. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential tool for all reading groups! No reading group should be without this book club companion to Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize winning novel, The Nickel Boys. This comprehensive guide includes useful background to the novel, a full plot summary, discussion of themes & symbols, detailed character notes, 30+ thought-provoking discussion questions, and even a quick quiz. Contents by Chapter — Author Biography, Plot Synopsis, Background to The Nickel Boys, Style, Setting, Characters, Themes & Symbols, Discussion Questions, Quiz, and Further Reading Study Guides for Book Clubs are high-quality guides designed to help you get the most out of your book club meetings. Written by a literary expert, they enable readers to appreciate challenging works of literature in greater depth. Please note that this is an unofficial companion guide and does not contain the full text of the original novel.
Download or read book Study Guide for Book Clubs Where the Crawdads Sing written by Kathryn Cope and published by Kathryn Cope. This book was released on 2020-10-24 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this comprehensive book club companion, Kathryn Cope guides readers through Delia Owens's bestselling novel, Where the Crawdads Sing. Designed to make your reading experience more rewarding and enjoyable, this study guide encompasses a wealth of information. Inside this guide you will find thought-provoking discussion questions; a detailed plot summary; useful literary context; an author biography; themes & imagery; character breakdowns; recommended further reading and even a quick quiz. Study Guides for Book Clubs are designed to help you get the absolute best from your book club meetings. They enable reading group members to appreciate their chosen book in greater depth than ever before. Please be aware that this is a companion guide and does not contain the full text of the novel.
Download or read book Young Jane Young written by Gabrielle Zevin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-08-29 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the international bestseller The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry: Named a Washington Post Notable Work of Fiction of 2017 A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year A Chatelaine Best Fall Reads pick #1 on the August Library Reads list An Entertainment Weekly’s “13 Books to Read in August” An Amazon’s “Best Books of the Month” for August A Barnes & Noble “August’s Best New Fiction” pick #3 on the September Indie Next List “A smart, intersectional feminist tour de force.” —Washington Times From Gabrielle Zevin, beloved author of the international bestsellers Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow and The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry, comes another story with unforgettable characters that is particularly suited to the times we live in now. This is the story of five women... Meet Rachel Grossman. She’ll stop at nothing to protect her daughter, Aviva, even if it ends up costing her everything. Meet Jane Young. She’s disrupting a quiet life with her daughter, Ruby, to seek political office for the first time. Meet Ruby Young. She thinks her mom has a secret. She’s right. Meet Embeth Levin. She’s made a career of cleaning up her congressman husband’s messes. Meet Aviva Grossman. The internet won’t let her or anyone else forget her past transgressions. “It’s brilliant and hilarious. . . . It has a heart. And a spine. It’s exactly what we need more of right now.” —Chicago Tribune “Splendid. . . . [Zevin’s] vibrant and playful writing, and the fully realized characters taking turns as narrator, bring the story a zestful energy.” —Booklist
