![]() ![]() There are about 16 club members, who range in age from 19 to 85. (Check out that station’s author interviews with Wally Lamb, Robert Alexander, Janet Evanovich and many others.) They meet monthly in a room overlooking the Mississippi River in the Grand Rapids Area Library (below right), a $6.6 million community jewel sandwiched by the Blandin Foundation headquarters and KAXE Radio. They are a rare breed: Of the 43 book clubs registered with the independently owned Village Book Store in downtown Grand Rapids (a town of about 8,000 people), theirs is the only men’s club. The club members are well-mannered, well-spoken, and clearly game for the good-natured, brainy jousting that has come to define their gatherings. The Men’s Book Club of Grand Rapids, Minn., operates by two inviolable rules: 1) Everyone has his say, and 2) No fisticuffs, “verbal or otherwise.” ![]()
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