{"id":11902,"date":"2017-05-01T16:57:06","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T22:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/?p=11902"},"modified":"2017-05-01T16:57:06","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T22:57:06","slug":"virtual-book-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/2017\/05\/virtual-book-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtual Book Club"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Colorado College has an impressive number of alumni and faculty authors (as evidenced by the wait for publication in \u201cOn the Bookshelf\u201d!) Readers, now there\u2019s news of a virtual book club for CC on Goodreads.<\/span><\/p>\n

The first featured book will be the debut novel by Kathy Giuffre, professor of sociology, whose work \u201cThe Drunken Spelunker\u2019s Guide to Plato\u201d was recently honored with the Seven Sisters Book Award in the fiction\/mainstream category for 2016. Set in a dive bar in the South, the book gives life to an array of oddball characters. It has been described as the philosophy of Plato, quenched with Pabst Blue Ribbon. The result is \u201ca lovely story of community and friendship,\u201d says Lynne Hinton, president of the Seven Sisters Book Awards.<\/p>\n

Published by John F. Blair Publishers in 2015, the book has received numerous awards, including a SIBA (Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance) Okra Award for Best Books of Summer 2015. It went on to make the long list for the Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize for literary fiction, an award that pays tribute to one of the South\u2019s most beloved authors, and it was a finalist for the IndieFab Book of the Year. Additionally, \u201cThe Drunken Spelunker\u2019s Guide to Plato\u201d was one of nine books, culled from a field of 47, to make the long list for the Crook\u2019s Corner book prize. For the virtual book club, Giuffre will lead interested readers through an online discussion of her book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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