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How to Start a Book Club - Lauren and the Books

This past Monday was my turn to host our Bupper Club. Our Bupper group has been just a handful of us for a few years so we decided to extend an invitation to new friends! Each of us invited a friend to join and I have to say…it seemed like a success. Disclaimer: I might have gone a little overboard trying to impress our new Bupper members. I must say…the reviews were definitely mixed. The One and Only takes place in the small college town of Walker, Texas.

The perfect book club is made up of three key things: a great reading selection, yummy snacks, and a lively discussion. The first two things are easy to accomplish — just read anything by Gillian Flynn and have a good variety of cheese available — but getting a good dialogue going may be harder than you think, which is why you need a list of general book club questions that will work for any discussion. When the conversation starts to lull, these questions can bring it back to life. Book clubs are often seen as simple social get together, a challenging way to read more books, or an excuse to drink wine on a weeknight as if you needed one, right? Sure, book clubs are a great way to meet new friends, get together with old ones, and up your monthly reading quota, but they're also a place where book-lovers can come together and discuss, dissect, and disagree over every little detail of a book. They're a space meant for lively arguments over plot twists, character flaws, and alternative endings. They're like your high school English class, only this time, you read and actually liked the book you're talking about, which makes the whole thing much more fun.