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Starting Your Own Book Club
Home » College Life » Book Clubs » Starting Your Own Book ClubYou can start your own book club in your dorm room, apartment, or living room. When you start the club, you can shape it into the kind of club you will enjoy for some time. Planning well is the best way to ensure success. There are also other helpful hints to help your book club get off to a good start.
Talk to your friends and classmates to see who might be interested in forming a book club. Once you have a few friends who are willing to commit to at least one book, decide on a meeting time and place. At the first meeting you may want to discuss how often everyone can meet. If you meet weekly, will you assign a certain number of chapters each week? Decide how much to read so that everyone is at about the same place at each meeting.
Once your group has decided how often to meet and how much reading will occur between meetings, decide whether or not your group will take turns as the moderator or if one person will be the designated moderator. Discuss what types of books the members are interested in. If the group has some common ground other than the book club, it may be that members can suggest books and choose which book will be next based on a simple vote or agreement.
Before the club begins to really get going, discuss things like whether or not refreshments will be served, and what kind. Decide now whether or not your book club will offer alcoholic beverages.
Other tips for creating an atmosphere that everyone can enjoy include always starting and stopping on time, keeping a regular meeting schedule that members can rely on, and staying on topic while discussing each book.
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