Tag: Banned books

  • The Power of Book Clubs

    The Power of Book Clubs

    ​They say you never forget your first time. I was a newlywed, newly arrived in Ohio, and felt enormously flattered when a kind acquaintance invited me to join a prestigious book club that had been meeting for more than a century. ​That month’s selection was Madame Bovary, in which a bored 19th century housewife has…