Love books, love being social? Join or start a book club or reading group.
Before jumping in, ask yourself a few questions.
What is your goal for a book club? To have lengthy discussion about books, to read or not read a book and get together and drink wine, to have a dinner with friends? Your expectations don't have to be much, but all the members should know what he or she is getting into when joining.
How often will the club meet? Monthly, bimonthly, online check ins with facebook or some other online took.
Where will you meet? Your home, the homes of your club members, a restaurant, a meeting room at a coffee shop or library?
How will you decide on the books? Take turns hosting the book club and the person hosting selects the next book or suggests a couple and one is agreed upon, aalphabetical order, birthday order, or a club vote?
Not all of these questions need to be answered immediately and can change over time.
So how do you find a book club? Meetup.com is a great website to find others with the same interests as you, this is a great site to find existing book clubs or start your own. Your local library is a wonderful resource, not only can you find the books for your next meeting, reserve a meeting room, and many libraries sponsor readings and book discussions.
Who to start a book club with? You can start a group with anyone that enjoys reading: coworkers, people with similar interests, friends, family members, facebook friends.
Types of book clubs: There are an endless amount of books out there and we each have our own taste. You may want to center you selections around a genre or general theme. Here are some popular choices: chick lit, mystery, children's lit, read the book - watch the movie, best sellers, works by a certain author, online book clubs, autobiographies and biographies,
Great you've started a book club! Here are some general meeting ideas:
Theme dinners or treats for books; drink coffee and eat sandwiches while discussing The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson.
Encourage members to come with meetings with at least 2 questions. Good questions to start with: Why did the author select that title, what would you have named it? What was your favorite passage?
Look up the book's publisher's webpage, many of them will have guides for their books.
Nominate a time keeper to keep the meeting on track and on point; only 5 minutes of discussion per question.
Do an activity related to the book; try writing your own diary while reading Bridget Jones' Diary by Helen Fielding.
Decide a new book at the end of the meeting, and meeting place.
Create a team name for your club: perhaps The Marga-readers! or Books and Booze, Killer Books, etc
Create a facebook group for your memebers to communicate about your progress while reading and to set up future meetings and reminders for meetings.
I'd love to hear all about your book club experinces. Any good books you could recommend? Have you done any fun events for a meeting? Does your group have theme? Leave a comment! Thanks :)
Helpful links:
http://www.readinggroupchoices.com/
Meetup.com
http://www.kcls.org/booksandreading/bookclub_resources.cfm
Before jumping in, ask yourself a few questions.
What is your goal for a book club? To have lengthy discussion about books, to read or not read a book and get together and drink wine, to have a dinner with friends? Your expectations don't have to be much, but all the members should know what he or she is getting into when joining.
How often will the club meet? Monthly, bimonthly, online check ins with facebook or some other online took.
Where will you meet? Your home, the homes of your club members, a restaurant, a meeting room at a coffee shop or library?
How will you decide on the books? Take turns hosting the book club and the person hosting selects the next book or suggests a couple and one is agreed upon, aalphabetical order, birthday order, or a club vote?
Not all of these questions need to be answered immediately and can change over time.
So how do you find a book club? Meetup.com is a great website to find others with the same interests as you, this is a great site to find existing book clubs or start your own. Your local library is a wonderful resource, not only can you find the books for your next meeting, reserve a meeting room, and many libraries sponsor readings and book discussions.
Who to start a book club with? You can start a group with anyone that enjoys reading: coworkers, people with similar interests, friends, family members, facebook friends.
Types of book clubs: There are an endless amount of books out there and we each have our own taste. You may want to center you selections around a genre or general theme. Here are some popular choices: chick lit, mystery, children's lit, read the book - watch the movie, best sellers, works by a certain author, online book clubs, autobiographies and biographies,
Great you've started a book club! Here are some general meeting ideas:
Theme dinners or treats for books; drink coffee and eat sandwiches while discussing The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson.
Encourage members to come with meetings with at least 2 questions. Good questions to start with: Why did the author select that title, what would you have named it? What was your favorite passage?
Look up the book's publisher's webpage, many of them will have guides for their books.
Nominate a time keeper to keep the meeting on track and on point; only 5 minutes of discussion per question.
Do an activity related to the book; try writing your own diary while reading Bridget Jones' Diary by Helen Fielding.
Decide a new book at the end of the meeting, and meeting place.
Create a team name for your club: perhaps The Marga-readers! or Books and Booze, Killer Books, etc
Create a facebook group for your memebers to communicate about your progress while reading and to set up future meetings and reminders for meetings.
I'd love to hear all about your book club experinces. Any good books you could recommend? Have you done any fun events for a meeting? Does your group have theme? Leave a comment! Thanks :)
Helpful links:
http://www.readinggroupchoices.com/
Meetup.com
http://www.kcls.org/booksandreading/bookclub_resources.cfm
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