The Book of Questions

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What do you think of the book’s cover? How well does it convey what the book is about? If the book has been published with different covers, which one do you like best?

Since 2008, Teresa Preston has been blogging about all the books she reads at Shelf Love. She supports her book habit by working as a magazine editor at a professional association in the Washington, DC, area, which is (in)conveniently located just a few steps from a used bookstore. When she’s not reading or editing, she’s likely to be attending theatre, practicing yoga, watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer again, or doting on her toothless orange cat, Anya. Why do you think the author chose to tell this story? Book Club Discussion Questions for Short Story and Essay Collections Highly recommended. I dare you to tell me you did not answer at least one of the above questions automatically! This complete translation of Pablo Neruda's El libro de las preguntas ( The Book of Questions) features Neruda's original Spanish-language poems alongside William O'Daly's English translations. In his introduction O'Daly, who has translated eight volumes of Pablo Neruda's poetry, writes, "These poems, more so than any of Neruda's other work, remind us that living in a state of visionary surrender to the elemental questions, free of the quiet desperation of clinging too tightly to answers, may be our greatest act of faith."To lose the appetite for meaning we call thinking and cease to ask unanswerable questions,” Hannah Arendt wrote in her superb meditation on the life of the mind, would mean to “lose not only the ability to produce those thought-things that we call works of art but also the capacity to ask all the answerable questions upon which every civilization is founded.”

I’ve been in a lot of book clubs, and I know it’s not always easy to get a conversation going on a book. I’ve found that the best book club discussion questions are ones that are open-ended and that get people to share their personal opinions. If you’re ready to start a book club, here are 50 of the best book club questions, for fiction and nonfiction alike. Find a printable list to bring to your meeting here! How did I create this list of book club discussion questions?Often, our deepest questions are our simplest ones, and our wildest questions — the most maddeningly unanswerable ones — are our most resaning, most redolent with meaning. This is why children’s questions are so often portals to the profoundest answers. Some top questions . .. (1) If you could get honest answers to any questions you asked, what would be your top three and why?; (2) If you caught your father holding hands with another woman and he asked you not to tell your mother, what would you do? What if your mother confided it was eating her alive b/c she felt your father was cheating on her?; (3) would you like to know the precise date of your death?; and (4) If 100 people were chosen at random, how many more do you feel would be leading a more satisfying life than you? What do you think about the author’s research? Was it easy to see where the author got his or her information? Were the sources credible? The five areas that make up the NEPQ Questions are connecting questions, situation questions, problem awareness questions, solution awareness questions, and consequence questions. Each kind of inquiry is intended to assist you in learning more about your prospects, identifying issues, and developing a connection with them. Provocative, surefire conversation starters. Watch out; some of them will have you questioning old and comfy assumptions.”