Exercise One-
Post on your blog whether or not you ever been a member of a book club. Also discuss whether you prefer joining a in-person or online book club.
I have never been a member of a book club. It usually takes me a couple of months to finish a book and the pressure of reading a book by a certain time makes it difficult to enjoy. It might be fun to try out an online book club.
Exercise Two
After viewing the resources above, what ideas come to mind for implementing a book club into your library. Post your thoughts and ideas onto your blog. Using one of the "live" book club resources, also look for a title that your book club could discuss.
My idea would be to have a revolving genre book club. One month romance, the next thriller, the next mystery therefore you might catch different groups each month. In Library Thing , I looked up the mystery writer, Deborah Crombie. They had a list of her upcoming appearances at libraries and bookstores. One was Murder by the Book in Houston on June 25. I picked her book Dreaming of the Bones to discuss in a book club. It won some awards and had good reviews. Since it is just one in a series readers may want to continue reading her other titles after finishing this one.
Exercise Three
Search for one of the books you selected in the first post on at least two of the social networks. Do the ratings for the book differ on each site, or are they similar? Did you find anything surprising?
I only saw "Dreaming of Bones" listed on Shelfari and everyone gave it 5 stars. It was not listed on Goodreads or Reading Group Choices. I didn't see anything surprising.
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