The book club effect

Even smart young things like to talk literature
Vancouver Sun
Saturday, February 10, 2007

In an episode of the cultish BBC series Absolutely Fabulous, Edina and Patsy host a book club meeting where they (barely) discuss OK magazine and a super-abridged pocket edition of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. It’s a funny twist on the stereotypical book club, the boozy domain of cardigan-clad women weeping over The Bridges of Madison County.

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- PUBLISHED ON 10 Feb 2007 IN Journalism