Conversations Book Club has teamed up with independently owned Subway Restaurant at 3000 Hwy 80 East in Pearl to provide book discussions every second and fourth Thursday of the month, which began on June 28.
The Subway restaurant is owned by Dorothy and Chris Lawson. This part of a new campaign called "Read Well While You Eat Well," where Conversations Book Club will be featured in a series of new commercials in partnership with this Subway.
The bok club has garnered national attention for being an interactive means for readers to talk directly to authors, even getting an endorsement from national names Andrew Neiderman (The Devil's Advocate), Father Andrew M. Greeley (Cardinal Sins) and Martha Stewart (The Martha Rules). The group will read authors who deal with more family and relationship issues, beginning with Sins of The Father by Felicia Madlock.
A roster has been gathered for the summer which includes books by Felicia Madlock, Alisha Yvonne (sp) and others. A free listing is available at Subway and on the website http://subwayconversations.blogspot.com. Discussions will begin at 6:30p.m. and will conclude at 8p.m. The first 20 to 30 minutes will be used to familiarize (sp) the group with a synopsis of the book and then get into the "meatier" issues that it addresses.
Beginning Saturday, July 7, this Subway will also host a weekly spoken word night beginning at 7p.m.
This is history-making in that it is the first weekly night for open mic in Rankin County. Special guests for the first night are bestselling author Lovell Brigham and award-winning Louisiana spoken word artist E. J. Kemper III. Performing artists are also welcome.
Admission is free for both events. For more information about this partnership...
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