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Rachel Jacobsohn The Momma of them all, Rachel Jacobsohn's
monthly snail-mail 16-pager is now defunct. The Reading Group Handbook (1998) became the spine of reading groups and The NewsJournal of the Association of Book Group Readers and Leaders
is to print-based books clubs what Oprah has been to daytime viewers'.
A Friend Who Reads Former monthly 8-page snail-mail newsletter, now
a Web page
PSS: the Post-Semiotic Society An international group of North
Americans who are just plain book lovers. Show-and-tell is a popular feature
of meetings as is the quote-capping that zips about each gathering. Currently
deep into The Pillow Boy of the Lady Onogoro by the Scottish poet
Alison Fell (Harcourt 0-15-100186-3), PSS also recommends Reckless Appetites:
a Culinary Romance by Jacqueline Deval (Ecco 0-88001-322-2).
Book Plug-of-the-Week
Lesley Thomas, Flight of the Goose
Neal Stephenson, In the Beginning . . . was the Command Line
and, of course,
Snow Crash
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