Ideas for Starting a Book Club

Video Transcript

"I'm Jeanna Rock and we're discussing ideas for starting a book club. Now, I'm assuming that you're going to organize your own book club because you haven't found one that really meets your needs. The first thing that you can do is just to notify a few friends that you're interested in starting a book club. And let them invite people as well. Make sure you let everyone know where you're going to meet and when you're going to meet. And for the first discussion, I would suggest that you choose maybe some short stories that can be found on the Internet and have some group members read those short stories and discuss that. At that first meeting, make sure you have a lot of food because that's one reach we do book group is for the food!! And also, discuss at that meeting where you want to go with your book group, how you want to organize it, how you want to choose books. So mainly your first meeting is just an organizational meeting with a little bit of discussion on a few short stories. After you've discussed what books you're going to read for your book group, contact your local book stores. I know that several of them have offered us a 20% discount if we buy our books there. But we must register our book group with that store to get the 20% discount. Also, you might want to check your library as well. The Orem City public library also carries quite a few books available there for book groups. So you might want to check to see what books they have available that you could check out as your group. Also, looking at their book group lists might even give you some suggestions on books that you might want to read as a group as well."