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Book Lust Book Club & Reading Groups


Hi everyone!

My name is Julia, and I'm a senior community moderator here at Book Lust with Nancy Pearl. I would like to invite you all to consider becoming book club facilitators and/or participants for the Book Lust Genre Book Clubs and Reading Groups, which are not yet active, but we will be starting very soon!

We've had some inquiries about forming a book club or reading group on the site. Considering that the site has been around for a year, a book club is long overdue. I've given it much thought, realizing that there are over 1200 members with varying genre interests. I wondered how we could all benefit from one book club, especially if some didn't like whatever reading genre was chosen.

Then the idea came to me: Why have only one book club? Why not have several for different genres, and then members can choose which genre(s) they want to participate in? However, I am one of those who isn't interested in all genres, so I know that I cannot lead several different groups.

Therefore, I am asking you all to consider becoming a volunteer facilitator for a particular genre. As a facilitator, you can lead the discussion for the rest of the group, maintain the particular genre book club page, basically lead the book club. I will be there to provide assistance for all the facilitators, as well as book club members.

The Important Stuff

  • Interested in more info about being a facilitator? Click here for more info!

  • Not interested in being a facilitator, but still want to be a member of a reading group? Wonderful! Here are some ways you can help:

  • What do you want to read? Click here to see what genres, authors, and specific books have been suggested so far, and to suggest your own!


Thank you for your time! I look forward to hearing from you!

Yours in reading,
~Julia
Senior Community Moderator
Book Lust with Nancy Pearl
http://booklust.wetpaint.com/
E-mail: julia.wetpaint@gmail.com


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KHarrington Read any great sentences lately? 7 Jul 11 2008, 9:24 AM EDT by clemmer
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Following are five sentences that forced me to dog-ear book pages and pause to consider the author – not for pulling me out of the story, but for giving me writer envy. Yes, when I read the following, I couldn't help but say, "I wish I'd written that!"

"An incidental discovery was that even legendary success brought little happiness, only redoubled restlessness, gnawing ambition."
Ian McEwan, On Chesil Beach

".....Claire says, turning to the counter to order what sounds like six drinks but turns out to just be a coffee."
Jonathan Tropper, How To Talk To A Widower

"Until now, Tom and Paula had all their wounds in common. Every hurt was diluted immediately, reduced by half for being shared, reduced again, almost redeemed by the attention that it earned."
Lynn Hoffman, bang, Bang

"But I was also free, invisible, as if the only evidence of my existence were in the tasks I performed, the services I rendered to others. When I stopped work, I disappeared."
Rosemary Poole-Carter, The Women of Magdalene

"Now, fifteen years and one mildly gifted son later, they had little to talk about. They were prone to epic silences and kept up their little hostilities like rubbed bronze."
Dominic Smith, The Beautiful Miscellaneous

What great sentences have you read recently?

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emilyrhodel Fantasy! 4 Oct 8 2007, 6:44 PM EDT by emilyrhodel
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I love fantasy! I even have my novel [The Goddess Realm] coming out next summer. It a fantasy!
cAN THOSE OF YOU WHO READ THIS JOIN THIS WIKKI?

http://goddessrealm.wetpaint.com
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Sikimi Fantasy 0 Sep 9 2007, 10:06 PM EDT by Sikimi
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It would be fun to participate in a fantasy book club.

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