About LB

Book Clubs and Poetry

I lead book club discussion made up of friends, students and focus-reading groups. Currently I am reading The Warmth of Other Suns by Elizabeth Wilkerson with my Merced College colleagues, and The Rites of Spring for the Modesto Book Club. These clubs are ways for us to allot time to get together. We meet approximately 6 weeks from the assignment of the read date, and aim for books within a page range of 300-400 pages but we often go over this limit.

I have been acting faculty adviser for the Merced College Book Club since 2018. The Book Club has been an esteemed club on the college campus for a number of years with co-advisors Vince Piro and Melissa Rocha stepping up whenever possible. Our reading list includes science fiction, dystopian drama, short fiction, graphic novels and more. The Book Club meets every two weeks, and we fundraise to purchase books for each member in Book Club to read free. The only stipulation is that the book be passed along or shared with another reader in your life, or better yet, non-reader, to share the love of the written word.