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Summary
The creator explains the structure and traditions of her successful book club to provide inspiration for viewers. She highlights specific activities like hosting, themed decorations, and using a slideshow to facilitate discussion.
Structure
1Introduction to the book club concept
2Logistics of group size and meeting frequency
3Hosting responsibilities and theme ideas
4Using a slideshow for discussion
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Fun activities like celebrity casting and movie outings
6Planning and book selection process
Product placement
Canva is mentioned as the tool used to create the book club slideshow.
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how we do bookclub! 📚📖🍷
1. keep it small & committed
2. meet once or twice a month - split the book in half about one book per month
3. switch who hosts host provides dinner
*bonus: host decorates to theme of book or holiday
4. have questions/conversation starters about the book prepared
5. celebrity cast the characters
*bonus: go see the books when they become movies
6. every meeting, you pick the day of the next meeting and define what chapters you are reading next
7. vote on new book & change genres
this is your sign to do a bookclub this year!
Transcript
Single greatest thing I did this year was stick to my book club with my friends. And we have been asked how we structure it. Here's how we do our book club. There is a pretty small group of us, like six or seven, and all of us are very committed. That's super important. Everyone's gotta be in it. We meet either twice a month or once a month and we split a book into two meetings. So we should be and have been tracking on reading a book per month. We switch off who hosts every month, and the host is responsible for dinner. Some people go all out, some people get pizza. It doesn't matter. You're hosting, you kind of make the theme towards the book that we're reading, or if it aligns with a holiday, they'll do, like, a holiday. One of our friends does a slideshow. Again, totally optional, but it does help focus everyone. And the slideshow is like made on Canva, we airplay it on the TV and it asks questions about the book, um, and the chapters we read, and it helps create, a group dialogue. My absolute favourite thing that we have done is we cast who the characters are as celebrities, and everyone kind of, like, votes. If a book that we read is a movie or is going to be a movie, we will do, like, a book club group outing and go see the movie. Every time we meet, we open up our calendars and we pick the next day that we are going to meet. We pick what chapter we're reading to at that meeting for the next time. Lastly, when we select a new book, we usually all will come with different ideas of what we wanna read. We read the description and then we kind of do a vote on what we want the next book to be. We typically do switch genres so that we're reading a wide range of different kinds of books. We have met for a whole year and it has seriously changed our lives. It has created community. It's given us a new hobby. I wasn't a big, like, fiction reader, and now I am. It's given us, like, something to do on weekdays. That's another tidbit. We always meet on a weekday. It's the best. So happy book clubbing.
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