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“And I just want a million dollars…!”
Funny story, last week I posted about maybe starting an in-person book club. I was only kinda joking, but guess what?!
Yup, there’s a book club.
I asked around and ended up getting a handful of people who are interested, and that makes me so happy! It’s just getting started and our first meeting is going to be at the end of the month, so who knows what’s going to happen and if it will work out long term, but I really hope it does!
So I spent the first part of the week setting up a couple of platforms for our new bookclub, for book picks and voting on our first book, getting to know each other, and so on. I’m nervous and excited for our first meeting! It’s totally still open to new members, if you happen to live or know anyone who lives in Calgary! Just letting you all know it’s an open invitation!
As for everything else, I’m running behind and trying to catch up. I didn’t read a lot, but I managed to finish Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries, and I loved it! I’m still working on Stiletto, the second book in the Checquy Files series by Daniel O’Malley. I haven’t gotten much else done this week, unfortunately. The new month caught me by surprise, January went by so fast! How was January for you?
Last Week on The Blog
- Top Ten Tuesday | New-To-Me Authors Discovered in 2023
- Monthly Wrap Up | January 2024
- Book Review | Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
This Week
I’m sure I can finish Stiletto this week, and I have Children of Virtue and Vengeance by Tomi Adeyemi up next on audiobook. On e-book, I’ve got Death by Dumpling by Vivien Chien, and I’ve got Legends and Lattes as a physical copy from the library. I am looking forward to all of them!
How was your week? I hope you had a great week last week, and I hope you have a great one again this week!
I’m glad you’ve found some interest in a book club. Hope it works out well for you. (And loved the Friends reference!)
I’m so glad you got the reference!
Good luck with the book club! I joined one of those last year and really like it. We’ve mostly moved our discussions to Facebook because it’s hard to find meeting times that work for everybody.
I get that. I’ve been in online book clubs and I love the convenience, but I feel like I need to get out of the house once in a while and meet some people in real life!
I was in an in person book club for years, but then I got so busy with my blog I didn’t have time to squeeze in the book club book, so I dropped out. But the rest of the girls are still going strong. It was a lot of fun!
I’m glad you enjoyed it while you went!
That is so cool about the book club! I hope it goes well.
It’s so funny you said January went by fast because everyone says the month drags where I am. It does feel that way in some ways but what is weird where I live is that February seems to drag on and I think that’s because it’s so cold and snowy the whole month.
Hope you have a great week!
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I don’t know. It’s weird because I’m really feeling that “the days are long but the years are short” feeling. Maybe it’s because I wanted to do so much in January and didn’t manage to, so I wasn’t ready for the month to end!
Yay for starting a book club!! I hope it ends up being fabulous!! Have a great week!
Thank you! I hope you have a great week too!
That’s great about your book club. It will take patience for it to catch on with people usually. We really share some reading tastes because I am reading or have read many of the same books.
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Thank you for the encouragement, I am a bit nervous with it being a new book club and wondering if it will work out, but I’m going to let it happen and enjoy the ride either way. I love that we have some of the same reading tastes! I always fangirl when I see someone else reading a book I loved!
Yay! Book clubs are awesome. I’ve been going to my book club since 2011. I love it. I hope yours turns out well and that it keeps going to years to come. 😀
Wow, since 2011 is a long time! That’s amazing! I hope mine can do as well as yours have. Thank you!
I hope your book club venture turns out well! Good luck!
Glad you finished Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries. I’m looking forward to reading book two.
Thank you!
I’m looking forward to reading book 2 too! I hope we’ll both enjoy it!
Ooh, hope the book club is fun! Very curious what you end up reading with them. 😀
Our first book is Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt! I’m excited!
That’s so awesome about the book club! Enjoy it. Here’s my SP: https://bonniereadsandwrites.com/2024/02/04/sunday-post-making-memories/
Thank you!
Congratulations on launching a bookclub, I wish you much success with it!
Have a wonderful week
Thank you! I hope you have a wonderful week too!
Yay for starting your own book club! I hope it works out and you have a great first meeting. I am so glad you loved Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries! I hope you enjoy your reading and have a great week!
Thank you! I hope the same for you!
Sounds like a busy and exciting time for you! I have recently finished Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands and think that I slightly preferred that over the first one!
I hope you enjoy your upcoming books and good luck with your first meeting!!
Have a good week!
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Good to know you liked the second Emily Wilde book more! Gives me a lot to look forward to! Have a good week!
I’m to independently minded to read what everyone else reads in a book club. I will read the same book with my mom but that it.
Have a great week.
I understand that. I’d be happy with one other person to read with! Hope you have a great week too!
Good luck with the book club!
Thank you!
That’s so exciting your book club is coming along after posting about it last week how there was no bookclub! I hope it will go well and that your first meeting is a fun one 🙂
Thank you! I’m excited about it too. I hope it goes well!