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My friend and I, just love to read and I decided to start a book club recently. You can look us up and join on BookMovement.com. Our book club's name is Tattered Pages.
It was from the Book Movement site that I got the idea to form my own book club because many authors run promotions and contests for book club members. Sometimes you can win free books or other materials for all your members and yourself of course! and what book lover doesn't like a free book in the mail? Way better than a bill. Besides, a book club is also a good excuse to have a Girls Night Out every so often. LOL
Set rules haven't been established. This will be a one day a time type of book club and we will have loads of changes as we go along. We will probably meet more online than not (so hopefully you have AOL) but an in-person or on-site meeting should happen at least every 6 weeks. We will meet and have dinner and discuss our current read. I know it sounds corny to some of you but we don't only have to discuss books. We can also discuss our daily life dramas! Anyway, it's a good way to read new books, and make new friends.
We live in the Jersey City area (New Jersey) so our meetings will be somewhat close but we will be open to other areas if a few people are into it. A few other friends have joined us already on Book Movement but I don't think they are bookworms like us. They joined to make us happy! That's what friendship is about right? We have some really good friends!!
Well we have already chosen our first read--it is No Time For Goodbye by Linwood Barclay. I subscribe to "Booked For Breakfast," an email newsletter run by this very nice lady--Suzanne Beecher. I don't personally know Suzanne but she writes these columns and shares recipes and anecdotes with her readers (and prizes too!) so you feel like she's one of your friends. You can look her up on DearReader.com. Anyway, it's just a daily email of book excerpts. Every week she features a different book. You don't have to do anything. She doesn't push you to buy it or anything like that. You basically get to test-drive a book. I love that idea because I've spent A LOT of money on books that I never fully read.
The book we have chosen was a recent feature of Suzanne. I just picked it up from my local library yesterday. My co-conspirator was supposed to pick up her copy today. It's about a 14 year old girl who after coming home drunk has an argument with her parents (of course) and wakes up the next day and finds that her family have all left the house without her. She goes to school thinking that perhaps they were just angry at her. However, they never come home!! My friend will probably finish this book by Thursday but I have made her wait so we can start it together. If you want to pick it up and join us for a discussion, please do. I'm giving plenty of time to go out and buy, borrow or share this book so we can all discuss it. How about by November 15th?
Anyway, please feel free to join my book club at bookmovement.com, email me, or post a comment telling me about your latest good read. Happy reading!! Let's start tattering those pages!
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