For book clubs with problems, facilitators tackle ‘behavioral issues’

For book clubs with problems, facilitators tackle ‘behavioral issues’

On occasion, what a book club needs most is for one person to tell another person to shut up. That’s when a book club facilitator could help. “When a club wants a facilitator, it’s usually because of behavioral issues,” said Cindy Kalland, a retired teacher in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. “It may just be that they’re missing something — that no one is doing the work — but I think the biggest thing that annoys people in book clubs is when there is a …