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The CBC Book Club launched online this week, beginning a month-long discussion and celebration of the Canada Reads 2009 winner, The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill.
Hannah Sung, the Book Club host and moderator, dropped by The Next Chapter studio to fill Shelagh Rogers in on all the benefits of getting involved with this new online community.
Joining is easy: all you have to do is log on to cbc.ca/bookclub. You can participate in live chats, online forums, watch videos and introduce yourself to the rest of the club by becoming a Featured Reader.
You can also send in questions for the author, and Hannah will pass them on in her weekly check-ins with Hill. People who send in questions have a chance to win a Sony Reader Digital Book.
Also on the show, Rogers speaks to mystery writer Linwood Barclay about his novel No Time for Goodbye and has coffee with chick-lit author Louisa McCormack in a Charlottetown café to discuss her latest book, The Catch.
First aired Saturday, March 7, 2009, on The Next Chapter. [runs 4:57]
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I was almost excited that CBC was hosting a book club, until I realized that the prize that CBC will also be giving away a sony e-reader as a prize. By providing members with a fancy new piece of hardware, what better way can the CBC think up to completely eviscerate the need to go buy actual books. Wonderful.
Posted by: Marc | March 15, 2009 09:20 PM
The Book Club is also giving away an autographed set of the Canada Reads book each week, not just a Sony e-reader. I hardly think that one Sony e-reader will turn people off buying books!
Posted by: Marie Wilson | March 17, 2009 11:43 AM
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