Starting a Book Club?

A book club can be a great way to get residents together. They can meet new people who have a similar interest. The fun thing about a book club is that the residents can choose the book. They meet in the clubhouse once a week and you provide the coffee and treats! Start by advertising. Send out fliers to each apartment asking for volunteers to be your core group. Once you have two or three volunteers you can begin to decide what book to read. If they are not sure or do not really know where to start pull up the best sellers list and make a choice from there. You can also follow Oprah’s book club. Each person would be responsible for purchasing their own copy. Depending on how much interest you have in the book club you may want to have more than one book club meeting on different days. The suggested amount of members for a book club is ten to twelve people however don’t feel discouraged if you don’t have that many to start. Once you have the members set up and the books purchased you can decide on what day and time to meet. Make sure to set ground rules in the first meeting and pick a host or hostess to help set up and serve the snacks. This makes the meetings fun and keeps things moving. Also have the hostess in charge of choosing a list of questions for the meeting. Some questions may be things like 1. who was your favorite character? 2. What character did you like the least? Ask each member to invite friends from outside the community. Purchase bookmarks with your logo on them and give them away at the meetings. Post on Facebook and start a discussion there as well. People may be interested in posting comments on Facebook instead of coming in person. Reach out in many different avenues to get as many people involved as you can. Invite new authors to do a book signing. You may want to pick a book for your book club by the author that is doing the book signing. You can also get the kids involved and have a book club just for them as well. Happy Reading!