Over drinks, Guinevere de la Mare lamented to Laura Gluhanich that the novel her book club had chosen was a drag to read. "I didn't want to finish it, yet it felt like I had this homework assignment.

On the third Wednesday of every month, around 50 members of the Baton Rouge community gather to read, drink and ignore each other. The Silent Book Club in Baton Rouge offers introverted bookworms ...