Hey everyone! The time has finally come for us to announce our ‘super secret project’ I’d mentioned here! 
I’ve always had a spot in my heart for reading. I was read to extensively as a child (Dr Seuss and Richard Scarry were my favorites) and started really getting into reading when I got to college. It was necessary, in college, with all the required text book reading. Now, I have the desire to read, but don’t make it a priority over dancing with Sophie, snuggling with Jeffrey, house keeping and crafting.
For the past few months, my friend Lisa, has been sharing tweetviews, which are short and sweet reviews of books she’s recently read. We’d been reading some of the same books and I loved having little chats with her of our thoughts. She suggested starting a book club, of which I couldn’t refuse!
@Shelly_Bergman let’s start a book club! Maybe @SSBEblog would be interested 🙂
— Lisa (@lisacng) October 3, 2014
Lisa and I are excited today to finally reveal the idea we’ve been working on for months — a book club. Obviously, a book club isn’t a new idea to the internet but it’s certainly new to our blogs. While it’s great to share a summary of what we’ve read from month to month, we’re looking forward to having more in-depth discussion of a single book. So here’s how we think it’s going to work.
- We’ll announce a book in the middle of the month. So, today we’ll announce January’s book since it’s mid-December.
- At the end of the following month, Lisa and I will post separate discussion questions on our blogs. We can discuss them in the comment section, and or there will be a link-up for those who want to share their own reviews. So, we’ll be discussing January’s book at the end of January.
- Feel free to visit both blogs (Expandng and DIY Mama) for two different discussions of the book.
We decided to call our book club Page Turners. Here’s our graphic in case you want to share it on a post or your blog.
So without further ado, here’s our first book: Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert.
Hope you’ll be joining us while we read Eat, Pray, Love and discussing it January 30th!
EXCITING!
I’m in!! I’ll be ready for January discussions.
Woot woot!
YES!!
I’m so excited about this! I’ve been wanting something like this, but could never find the right group, or enough peeps to start my own. And now 2 of my favorite bloggers are starting it for me! Woohoo!
Full disclosure, I’ve read this book before. But I loved it so I will totes read it again and link up with y’all at the end of January!
*happy dancing*
So excited to have ya! No problem-o on having already read it because we figured lots of people already did and it’d be easy for them to jump into discussion & maybe have momentum to read Feb’s book too! Again, excited to have ya!
Perfect!! I’m going to start reading it next week because I’m almost finished with my current book! I’m excited to discuss it at the end of Jan!
I have been so out of the game! LOL! If I can get to our library, I will grab a copy and I will be in! What a great idea! Have a great weekend, Shelly!
It’s a really fast read, in my opinion Stacey! We’re announcing the second book in a couple weeks (to make sure everyone has time to get it) so if you can’t find EPL this time around, you can always join next month! I hope you’re able to find a copy because I’m really enjoying the book! It’s encouraged me to start meditating again.