We will meet with Betty Scanlon from 6:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. to select books for February - June. Please bring your book suggestions with a book description printout from Amazon.com or Barnes and Noble. Thanks Betty for offering to give us the scoop on the hottest book group books! In the next post, you will see a list of books that we generated in our previous discussions.
From 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. we will discuss Outliers. Judy will present the author biography and we will use discussion questions from this reading group guide: http://www.litlovers.com/guide_outliers.html
Here is a description of Outliers:
Product Description
In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing. Along the way he explains the secrets of software billionaires, what it takes to be a great soccer player, why Asians are good at math, and what made the Beatles the greatest rock band.
Brilliant and entertaining, OUTLIERS is a landmark work that will simultaneously delight and illuminate.
About the Author
Malcolm Gladwell is a staff writer for The New Yorker. He was formerly a business and science reporter at the Washington Post.
There are several interesting web sites and videos featuring Malcolm Gladwell:
- A 5-minute interview of Malcolm Gladwell with Anderson Cooper:
- A 27:37 interview of Gladwell with Katie Couric:
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/
- Malcolm Gladwell's web site: http://www.gladwell.com/
- A 2-minute and 1:38 Amazon.com video where Gladwell introduces his book: http://www.amazon.com/Outliers-Story-Success-Malcolm-Gladwell/dp/0316017922
- A 50:46 question & answer session with Malcolm Gladwell - "Why do some succeed where others fail? What makes high-achievers different?"
- A 1-hour 41-minute Gladwell interview with a question and answer session at the 92nd Street Online:
