The Arts & Crafts Book Club
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Arts & Crafts collectors are also Arts & Crafts readers - which helps explain why we have such a wonderful array of periodicals, quarterlies, newsletters, web sites and books to choose from. Some provide us with information on what we collect; others give us a glimpse into what life was like during the Arts & Crafts era.
Each year we solicit suggestions from our attendees, past and future, as to what books they might like to read prior to next February's Arts & Crafts Conference. We then select two and assign each a time and a place at the Arts & Crafts Conference for those of you who have read either of the books to meet, discuss your ideas and share your opinions (those we always have plenty of!).
Our moderator for several years has been Pat Bartinique, a professor of English, an Arts & Crafts collector, an author and a twenty-two year attendee at the Grove Park Inn. Pat reads each of the suggested works, then narrows the list down for us based on her experience both as a reader and as a teacher.
Keep checking back for updates on this year's selections. As always, if you have any suggested titles don't hesitate to email me at bj1915@charter.net
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Here are books which the Arts & Crafts Book Club have read and discussed in the past:
2009 The Simple Life Loving Frank 2008The Devil and the White City The Country of the Pointed Firs2007Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man The Mysterious Stranger
2006 The Picture of Dorian Gray How The Other Half Lives Carl Sandburg's Chicago Poems
2005 The Magnificent Ambersons Twenty Years at Hull House Spoon River Anthology
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