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Hi!
Would you like to join our Book Club? We did Book Club last year and it was really great. Sometimes we think we are too busy to read. Or we just read blogs. Our Book Club is all about reading a book over a couple of months : no pressure, no rules. You can read one book, or both. It is even for busy people. We choose one classic and one contemporary fiction title : you register here (below) and then you pop over to the Forum if you want to discuss the book you chose to read... or anything else really!
For September and October we are going to read ::
Classic :: Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery
Contemporary :: The World Beneath by Cate Kennedy
If you are a renegade, you can choose your OWN book and read by yourself. Maybe you would like to share your thoughts on the renegade title over at the Forum too?! Just start yourself a thread with the book title in it!
If you read for 5 or 10 minutes a day, you could read a book in two months, right?
I think that it's really important to read fiction, peeps. Fiction opens up all sorts of new trains of thought, new points of view, new thought processes that the real world may not. Fiction can remind you of important relationships, buried feelings and dreams. Fiction can help you be a MUCH better writer and a MUCH better person.
I chose these books because I have not read them. Anne of Green Gables is a favourite to many, and I do not know why I have not read it! So I will. If you have read it, perhaps you could re-read it... or read another of Lucy Maud's titles?
I am going to read Cate Kennedy's book too. The book was sent to me yonks ago by one of my sponsors Scribe Publishing and I slotted it into my bookshelf and forgot about it. When I was trawling through recommended titles yesterday, Cate Kennedy's book came up a lot, so I dusted it off again. 'The World Beneath' has recently won or been short listed for a slew of literary awards. It's set in Australia, and I'm really loving reading and watching Australian stories at the moment. If you are not local you can buy it here for under $20 with free shipping. (Or here : if Book Depository is sold out : but no free shipping here :( )If you are local it will be in your favourite bookstore, or indeed online.
So! There we go! Are you in?!
NB :: You don't need to have a blog to join us :: just add your Facebook or Twitter link... or even just your name in the comments section
xx Pip
