This month’s selection:

The Water Cure

About the book

The Water Cure is the chilling confession of a victim turned villain. Ishmael Kidder is a successful romance novelist. His agent is coming to visit her usually productive client. But Kidder’s eleven-year-old daughter has been brutally murdered, and it stands to reason that he must take revenge by any means necessary. The punishment is carried out without guilt, and with the usual equipment—duct tape, rope, and super glue. But how will he explain the noises in the basement to his agent? How does he know he has the right man?

About the author

Percival Everett is a professor of English at the University of Southern California and the author of sixteen books, including Wounded, American Desert, Erasure, and Glyph. He lives in L.A. and British Columbia

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Other books by Percival Everett

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LITERATENUBIAN GUIDELINES FOR BOOK CLUBS

Thinking about joining or starting a book club?
The best place to start your research is your local library and bookstore. Most libraries offer advice and guides on book clubs. Most bookstores are becoming known for their book club activities.

To join an existing book club or start one at your local library, do the followings:
Libraries tend to operate their own monthly book club. Go down to your local library and speak to the events coordinator. He/she should be able to provide you with information on how to join the club; the club’s reading list, monthly schedule and time.

Most libraries, depending on size and stock, do offer free space and books to book club members. The events coordinator at your local branch should be able to provide you with information and guide on how to start your very own book club.

To join an existing book club or start one at your local bookstore, do the following:
Depending on space, some bookstores do host in-store monthly book club. Contact the owner or manager at your local bookstore and inform him/her about your plans to either join or start your own book club. He/she should be able to provide you with information and guide.

Do you want to start a book club at your home?
This type of book club is not unusual at all—actually, it’s the oldest form. To start one, think about the followings:

• Finding a friend or friends that enjoy reading as much as you do.
  
• Putting together or agreeing on a reading list.
  
• What genre of books is going to be discussed, fiction or nonfiction?
  
• Is it going to be a fortnightly or monthly book club?
  
• Is the book club meeting only going to take place at your home or is each member going to take turns hosting it?

Tips

• Keep the group small, 2 – 10 members should be okay.
  
• It helps if you pick members that live in the same or close neighborhood as yourself.
  
• Some book clubs tend to include both fiction and nonfiction on their list.
  
• Pick books for the entire year at the beginning of each year; this will give every member enough time to read and prepare for each meeting.
  
• Since the early 90s, some publishers have been including reading guides at the back of the books they published. They also offer these guides on their sites.
  
• Most Bookstores offer big discounts for book clubs on bulk purchases
  
• Most book clubs tend to take turns hosting their fortnightly/monthly book discussion at different member’s house. They even cook or offer snacks and drinks.
  
• Most book clubs host their discussions once a month.
  
• Some clubs host their book discussions at restaurants.

Resources

Reading guides
New York City Public Libraries Reading Group Guides Links
Brooklyn
Manhattan
Queens

Most Public Libraries in cities and states all around the country do offer book clubs guides. You can either go by to your local library or check out its site for more info.

Reading Group Guides
Hachette Book Group
HarperCollins
Kensington Books
Penguin
Picador
Random House
Simon & Schuster
St. Martin's Press

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