Clementine Oduya

Clementine writes reading guides and discussion questions for book groups, and essays on reading habits. She thinks a good book club question should make at least one person change their mind.

Reading guides

Book club questions for literary fiction that start a real conversation

How to write book club questions that open an argument instead of a quiz: five kinds of question, eighteen that fit any literary novel, and a worked example.

Clementine Oduya · 26 September 2024

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The reading life

Reading the last page first: spoilers, suspense and pleasure

Some readers check the ending before they start. What a spoiler really takes from a novel, what it leaves alone, and how book groups can handle endings fairly.

Clementine Oduya · 27 April 2024

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