OPEN LETTER TO THE COMMUNITY This is aplea for your support. If you, your son, or your father need a new PH OTO BY DANIEL LIP PI TT suit, sport coat or tuxedo, PLEASE come into Frederick's and take advantage of our 40% OFF EVERYTHING SALE!!! Help save a dying breed, the independent clothing store, and take home tremendous savings. "Absolutely," says Ru- Book club Huntington Woods. "I started to realize [through discussion: ach president and book Literature club member Kari Provis- the book club that] people had very different tastes with a bit of er. "It's very educational and interests. That's im- casual chat. and a good way to bond with other women." portant in educating our- Club members say sharing a selves." Rachel Sasson Dorfman, a 29- book provides an opportunity to year-old Chicago resident whose expose a part of yourself prob- mother belongs to the Geneva ably not revealed at the average club, says that what's interest- luncheon. "It's a different level," Knop- ing about a book club is not only what you read, but absorbing pow says. "It's not a business the different perspectives of oth- level, it's not just socializing. It's intellectual stimulation, and it er readers. Like many young women who forces you to read at least one grew up peering into the living book a month." That leaves just one question: room while their mothers host- ed the book club, Dorfman What about men? "I don't think they read as wanted to find a club of her own. Through her work as a political much," Moss says. "And those fund-raiser, she started a book men I know who read a lot don't club made up of young profes- feel a need to exchange." A few women say their sionals. And with members of varying religions, races and sex- boyfriends and husbands will ual orientations, she says, you're sometimes read along with the guaranteed to find different book club, but many say they opinions about almost any text. wish their men would read more "What I love most is the op- often. Others, like Knoppow, belong portunity to interact on an in- tellectual level with people I to a couples book club as well. might not ever come in contact With men in the group, Knop- with otherwise," Dorfinan says pow says, discussion tends not to wander off to weddings and of her club. OK, fine. Book clubs are an grandchildren as often. Talk stays more focused on the book, intellectual thing. Well, not exactly, says Annabel but is usually colorful and very Cohen, member of a Jewish book informative. Many women come up empty club in Bloomfield Hills. "Membership is not based on when trying to name a Detroit intelligence by any stretch," Co- area book club with a strictly hen says. "It's a great way to get male membership. Cohen says together and make time for the explanation is quite simple: "Women, in general, are more friends." These days, says Knoppow, social than men." For women, Cohen says, get- not reading the book doesn't prevent a member from coming ting together is a priority, to book club. The meetings are whether it's about lunch or lit- almost an excuse to get togeth- erature. Women make time for er with old friends she might not friends, she says. And as members of the Gene- otherwise see. So book clubs are social ... and va club can attest, book clubs make friends of women. ❑ intellectual? THANK YOU, FRED & SHARON RUBINSTEIN OF FARMINGTON 12-OAKS MALL--NOVI, MI 248-348-8707 esi 1SS:38$30 e ' 4 i0 FENBY STEIN (7 ,A Entertainment • Agency • Music for y_a_ c ir occasion! JERRY FENBY (a. r 8tASSIEUkit PHOTOGRAPHY • Professional • Personable • Flexible BILL MEYER 248-624-8668 • L Brian. A. Alassermart • HOT ICE PHOTOGRAPHY FOR ALL YOUR SPECIAL OCCASIONS Farmington Hills • 553-4867 HOT ICE TEEN ANGELS THE CONTOURS SIMONE VITALE QUIET STORM PERSUASION JERRY FENBY GROUP_ SUN MESSENGERS SUNSET BOULEVARD TIM HEWITT LOVING CUP BILL MEYER RENNIE KAUFFMAN FENBY-CARR ERIC HARRIS-DJ PLEASE CALL FOR A FREE VIDEO APPOINTMENT 810-553-9966