#265: How To Start A Book Club

#265: How To Start A Book Club

Today we're gonna share the benefits of being a part of a local book club and creative ideas for starting your own. We get a lot of questions about how to make adult friends and hands down a book club is the best way to get started! At the end of the episode we're also sharing the hills we'd gladly die on.

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Dream Book Clubs:

Elsie - All year round moody book club

Emma - Host it and have a theme based on the book

What about ideas for gathering that don't involve reading?

  • writing group
  • clothing exchange
  • crafting nights
  • pool moms

Listener Request: What hills will you die on?

Elsie

  • The book ending of The Idea of You is the correct ending
  • Extremism of any kind is dangerous.

Emma

  • Doesn't want to ever own a cat

Book Report:

Elsie- The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

Emma - We are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler

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