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Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2023 7:53pm
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Lisa0942

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I’d like to join a book club but the one run by the U3A is full. Are there any other book clubs running? Or, if not and I started one, would there be any interest? Nothing too highbrow but I’d like to expand my book choices and I think this would be a fun way to do so. 

Aikidoamigo

Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2023 5:29am

Aikidoamigo

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Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2023 5:29am

Full?

how can a book club be full?

I always thought you read the book at home

Lisa0942

Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2023 8:27am

Lisa0942

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Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2023 8:27am

Aikidoamigo wrote on Sun Jan 29, 2023 5:29am:

Full?

how can a book club be full?

I always thought you read the book at home

You do but then you meet up once a month to discuss it. There’s the issue of space, wherever the monthly meet up is held, plus the number needs to be small enough for a discussion to be effective. 

Jason31289

Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2023 9:32am

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Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2023 9:32am

Lisa0942 wrote on Sat Jan 28, 2023 7:53pm:

I’d like to join a book club but the one run by the U3A is full. Are there any other book clubs running? Or, if not and I started one, would there be any interest? Nothing too highbrow but I’d like to expand my book choices and I think this would be a fun way to do so. 

I'd be interested. Lee Child is one of my favourite authors but I also wish to expand my reading repertoire. I've tried to read The Silmarillion a few times but struggled to get through it. A book club may motivate me!

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GrahamLynn

Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2023 10:13am

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Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2023 10:13am

I’m in a couple of on line book clubs. The  chosen books are usually free kindle books or cost 99p

Also in a club we’re new authors will ask for approx 40 people to comment and review on their book, before it goes to print. Book is sent out as a free download a few weeks before publication. Just started reading one of those at the moment, discussion end 1st Feb before book is released on 13th Feb.

Ok you miss out on coffee, meeting up and having an actual chat, but online you get to read the genre you are interested in as well as sometimes being able to interact with the author..

Lynn

Encarni

Posted: Mon Dec 4, 2023 5:49pm

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Posted: Mon Dec 4, 2023 5:49pm

Any ongoing reading clubs in the Elche area? . I would love to join one. 
Thanks in advance for your answer. 

DebHolt

Posted: Thu Feb 1, 2024 11:42am

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Posted: Thu Feb 1, 2024 11:42am

GrahamLynn wrote on Sun Jan 29, 2023 10:13am:

I’m in a couple of on line book clubs. The  chosen books are usually free kindle books or cost 99p

Also in a club we’re new authors will ask for approx 40 people to comment and review on their book, before it goes to print. Book is sent out as a free download a few weeks before publication. Just started reading one of those at the moment, discussion end 1st Feb before book is released on 13t...

...h Feb.

Ok you miss out on coffee, meeting up and having an actual chat, but online you get to read the genre you are interested in as well as sometimes being able to interact with the author..

Lynn

How could I be part of the group that reviews the books for the new authors ?

GrahamLynn

Posted: Thu Feb 1, 2024 2:04pm

GrahamLynn

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Posted: Thu Feb 1, 2024 2:04pm

DebHolt wrote on Thu Feb 1, 2024 11:42am:

How could I be part of the group that reviews the books for the new authors ?

There’s loads of them online, depends on the genre you read. I tend to use NetGalley and pigeonhole because my favourite authors use those sites. But you have to give reviews, if you fall below a certain level you get blocked from receiving anymore. 

If you have any favourite authors subscribe to their mailing lists. They usually send out pdf copies of a new book a week or so before publication and you just have to read it before the publication date  and post a review online. Authors will normally specify where to leave reviews  but it’s normally Amazon  and Goodreads. 

 Sometimes things still get missed in the proof  read, so if you spot an error in a story, email the author. I had one author whose book I read on publication day, spotted storyline errors on two separate  occasions, so I now get advance copies sent through to me. Most of these authors self publish so it’s just a question of them correcting the error asap and then all digital copies are correct immediately.

Goodreads you can use as a book club and find friends with similar reading interests to you.

Lynn

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