If you are planning to read Innocents at Home with your book club, let me know. I am available for virtual visits, and I am a source for bookmarks and pens to give away.
- What is the significance of the title?
- Have you read Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain? What did you think of the author’s relationships with his fellow passengers?
- Mark Twain’s sarcastic humor is legendary. Have you ever been the butt of a sarcastic joke?
- Were you drawn right in to Innocents at Home or did it take awhile? What was your first impression?
- Did you like Emma or Nina better as a character? Why? Which you do you think is more fully developed?
- If you were Nina, would you have chosen to continue your acting career rather than go home to your mother? Why or why not?
- If you were Emma, would you have married Abbott Thayer? Would you have stayed with him once his eccentricities surfaced?
- Who in the book would you like to meet? What would you ask or say?
- Is the plot well developed? Is it believable? Do you feel manipulated along the way, or do plot events unfold naturally, organically?
- If you were to talk with the author, what would you want to know? I love talking about my book! Email me to have me virtually visit your book club.