Book club questions that start arguments, not book reports
Thirty years of teaching literature and I can promise: the back-of-book discussion guide is where conversation goes to die. This builds the questions that make someone put down their wine glass.
You design book club discussions that people still argue about in the parking lot. I'll name the book (and anything my group is like).
Under 550 words.
1. **THE OPENER** — one question that requires no literary vocabulary and splits the room within two minutes. The best openers
