Hello! My name is Arianna Cook and this is the blog I'll be using for Readers' Advisory Spring 2020!

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Book Club Experience: For my book club experience, I attended a club meeting at the library where I work. It is a club that meets regularly (once a month) to discuss a predetermined book. One of my coworkers from the reference department (I’m in circulation) organizes the club meetings and chooses the book. Extra copies of the book are obtained through interlibrary loan so that club participants do not need to purchase the book, which is one great thing about having the club meet at the library.  I did tell the club members that I was observing their meeting for a class assignment just so that everyone knew why I was there and why I was not actively participating. Some of the members recognized me from the library anyway, so I felt it was easier to tell them.  The book they were discussing was Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland’s History-Making Race Around the World by Matthew Goodman. It is a nonfiction book about the two Victorian era female journalists ...
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