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From: Sunday Gazette-Mail
Date: 20060108
Author:Regina C. Davis

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Since the inception of the book club, many readers have suggested biographies for the reading list. Book talk discussion leader Carol Campbell and I have always turned down these suggestions, reasoning that since biographies are based on fact, there is little room for interpretation and therefore not much to sustain a group discussion.

But the idea never went away and the first four titles the book club will discuss for 2006 are biographical fiction. This month's book, Hermann Hesse's "Siddhartha," begins the exploration of "Real Lives in Fiction." The Monday Book Club ...

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