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November Spotlight

November 01, 2016 Spotlight Book Groups

November’s Spotlight is Be Nice and Read a Book!

We are a group of six best friends (including one mother-daughter) that decided to start a book club in March, 2016. Our book club meetings have become the highlight of our month.

We love taking our monthly photo and try to be as creative as we can. LOL! In addition to our monthly meetings we have an annual overnight book club retreat, a tea, a picnic potluck, a dress up dinner party, a Halloween spaghetti dinner, and a Christmas Party. We use any excuse we can to get together and discuss our books. 

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October Spotlight

September 30, 2016 Spotlight Book Groups

October’s Spotlight is The Loose Ladies Club!

Our group is called Loose Ladies. There are 7 women in the group and we take turns hosting a lunch, selecting a book and leading the discussion. Our group has met now for 3 years. We read classics, mysteries, bestsellers and the recommendations from Reading Group Choices which is an invaluable tool. I also won an audio book from Reading Group Choices Everybody Rise which our group has shared and thoroughly enjoyed.

This is a post made to Facebook after our last meeting: “Finally book club with the author.

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September Spotlight

September 22, 2016 Spotlight Book Groups

September’s Spotlight is The Grant Book Club!

The Grant Book Club began meeting in the library just 3 years ago. We grew from a beginning of 6 to the 10 regulars we are today. Our group of ladies is multi-generational bringing a wealth of experiences and reading choices to the table. Monthly books range from current bestsellers to time worn classics. We have read Wuthering Heights and A Light Between Oceans, Ernest Hemingway and Fannie Flagg and much in-between.

Last fall we gathered for a murder mystery dinner party at a member’s home where everyone was assigned a character ahead of time.

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August Spotlight

August 01, 2016 Spotlight Book Groups

August’s Spotlight is The Red Tent Book Club!

We are The Red Tent Book Club. We are named after the first book we read for discussion. We’ve been together for 14 years. We started as a bunch of new moms who had quit our jobs to stay home with our new babies, but we desperately needed to have some girlfriend night out time. Now most of our kids are in high school and we’re back at work, but we still get together every month to discuss a book and catch up on each other’s busy lives.

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July Spotlight

July 01, 2016 Spotlight Book Groups

July’s Spotlight is Sweet Connections

I am a part of the best group of ladies that meets on the shores of Lake Superior. When we started the Sweet Connections book club in 2004, we wanted to invite ladies interested in reading a similar genre of books, or at least women willing to read something out of their comfort zone. We also enjoy similar interests outside of our book club activities. We spend an hour talking about the book, but afterwards our discussion over coffee and dessert is equally important as we share the recent events from our lives.

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June Spotlight

June 01, 2016 Spotlight Book Groups

June’s Spotlight is So Many Books, So Little Time

So Many Books, So Little Time Book Club meets monthly in our small town of Mt. Airy, NC (better know as Mayberry). We began meeting in March 2013 and have eight members. We are a group of retired educators and one honorary educator (a fabulous parent volunteer for many years) from two different school systems. Each of us knew someone in the group; none of us knew everyone, but we have become connected through books! We challenge each other to read outside of our comfort zone (or out of the rut we were in),

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