cathy
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Madeline Martin:
I'm wondering if there are any discussion questions for The Keeper of Hidden Books? That was my choice for our book club and I can't seem to find questions for the book.
Madeline Martin
Hi, Cathy :) Thank you so much for choosing The Keeper of Hidden Books for your book club. Sorry for the reader's guide missing - I am working on it now and will hopefully have it up sooner than later. Also, just an FYI that I love to do zoom chats with book clubs so long as I have the availability :) Just fill out the form on my website if you're interested: https://madelinemartin.com/book-clubs/
Here are the discussion questions:
- Which character do you connect with the most and why?
- Do you think you could have been part of the Warsaw Uprising?
- What books that were read in the Bandit Book Club have you read? Are there any new ones you’d like to read?
- In the story, Zofia doesn’t like one of the books they read in the Bandit Book Club, but when she reads it again at a later point in her life, she finds incredible poignance in the story. What is a book you read once that you didn’t much care for, but then found significance and power in the second reading later in your life?
- What was something interesting you learned about Warsaw during WWII that you didn’t know before reading this book?
- Do you think you’d be part of a secret book club if it was offered to you?
- If your education was cut short by the closing of schools, would you risk your life to finish your education? Especially when doing so yielded only a ticket under the promise that it would translate to a proper certificate once the war was over.
- This is a difficult question - Hiding Jewish people was an incredibly brave thing to do, and also was incredibly dangerous. Doing so put the lives of family members and even fellow apartment dwellers at risk. Do you think you could have helped hide those who were Jewish despite the risk?
- This could be controversial, so only add if you are comfortable doing so: Book banning sadly still continues today with our public schools and libraries. Why do you think these books are being banned? What problems do you think can come of it? Have you read any books that were banned and how do you feel about why it was banned?
I hope you have a fabulous book club :)
Here are the discussion questions:
- Which character do you connect with the most and why?
- Do you think you could have been part of the Warsaw Uprising?
- What books that were read in the Bandit Book Club have you read? Are there any new ones you’d like to read?
- In the story, Zofia doesn’t like one of the books they read in the Bandit Book Club, but when she reads it again at a later point in her life, she finds incredible poignance in the story. What is a book you read once that you didn’t much care for, but then found significance and power in the second reading later in your life?
- What was something interesting you learned about Warsaw during WWII that you didn’t know before reading this book?
- Do you think you’d be part of a secret book club if it was offered to you?
- If your education was cut short by the closing of schools, would you risk your life to finish your education? Especially when doing so yielded only a ticket under the promise that it would translate to a proper certificate once the war was over.
- This is a difficult question - Hiding Jewish people was an incredibly brave thing to do, and also was incredibly dangerous. Doing so put the lives of family members and even fellow apartment dwellers at risk. Do you think you could have helped hide those who were Jewish despite the risk?
- This could be controversial, so only add if you are comfortable doing so: Book banning sadly still continues today with our public schools and libraries. Why do you think these books are being banned? What problems do you think can come of it? Have you read any books that were banned and how do you feel about why it was banned?
I hope you have a fabulous book club :)
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Laura Willyard
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Madeline Martin:
Currently reading "The Last Bookshop in London" and loving it! I have been to that part of London and you have captured it. :O) did you live there at one time? When I return to London ( we usually stay in Bloomsbury - due to the proximity to British Library and Museum and bookshops.) I plan to take a walk to the Primrose hill area to discover such bookshops Please write more books like this one!
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