You'll love this one...!! A book club & more discussion
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Our February read ~ The Invention of Everything Else by Samantha Hunt
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There is quite a good reading guide here ~ http://readersplace.co.uk/view-readin...Just to get you thinking while you read.
Eeek, this was my suggestion! Do I have to lead the discussion? Better read the book first, LOL!
Ha ha. That's the idea :D have a look at the reading guide above. Give you some ideas for questions. Don't panic. There's not much to it. Ask a few questions to start then the discussion will pretty much flow on from there.
I'm going to see if my library has a copy too :)
Waiting for my library to get it in - I have it on request. This will be my first online book discussion group!
Sandy - does that mean you are in an offline reading group?
New to the group and excited to start with this book... it's downloading now to my nook!
I'm new here too and I already put this book on hold at the library. It looks like a good read!
Donna wrote: "Sandy - does that mean you are in an offline reading group?"No, I'm not - mainly because of time constraints. I've already started to read this book, but I'll wait until the discussion actually starts to put my two-cents worth in! I'm looking forward to the discussion.
I've already started this one, and so far, so good!
I've just finished the book this evening, but I'll start the discussion on Feb 1st.
I read this book about a year ago. I hope I remember it well enough to add to the discussion.
The book looks interesting and I will buy or borrow it from the library. I even read few facts about Nikola Tesla's life. The name sounded vaguely familiar and after I read, this man seems very peculiar person so I am looking forward to read the book.
Just finished The Invention of Everything Else this evening. I really enjoyed it, even though it seemed a bit disjointed at times. Loved learning some scientific history.
I pre-ordered mine from the library and should be able to read it by Feb. 1. Please don't say anything about it until then! :)
I'm on the third chapter . . . it has grabbed me to the point that I will go on to the end.
We have two threads for this? I'm confused.
Cheryl wrote: "We have two threads for this? I'm confused."I think this thread was the announcement that this was the winning book, the other thread is for the actual discussion.
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About the book
Louisa is an imaginative and curious chambermaid who, while cleaning rooms at the New Yorker Hotel, stumbles across a man living permanently in room 3327, which he has transformed into a scientific laboratory. Brought together by a shared interest in the pigeons that nest in the hotel, Louisa discovers that the mysterious guest is Nikola Tesla, one of the most brilliant and most neglected inventors of the twentieth century. The Invention of Everything Else charts the relationship of the girl and the genius during the last week of Tesla s life, when sinister forces are closing in on him…
About Samantha Hunt
Samantha Hunt s fiction has been published in the New Yorker and McSweeney s and she has written one previous novel. She received the 5 under 35 award from the American National Book Foundation in 2006 and currently teaches writing and bookmaking at the Pratt Institute.