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I want to start a book club at Barnes and Noble?

And Offers — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:40:17 +0000

I want to start a book club at Barnes and Noble, but I am not sure how to approach them. Would they let me do something like that, once a month meet for an hour with cookies and a book discussion. It would be for teenagers. Would they let me hang up flyers? How do I ask? PLEASE HELP! All answers are greatly appreciated! Thank you SO much and God bless you all!

The best thing to do is to go to your local B&N and ask for the manager. Make your proposal.

Your proposal might be boosted if you could say you already had N students interested in attending.

At least our local B&N – they are very nice and supportive of the homeschool community. I even got a teacher discount card as a homeschool teacher.

The worst that will happen is they will politely say no. But, I bet they will say yes. It is good for their business.

how do i start a book club? any tips?

And Offers — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 05:36:05 +0000

i’m 16 and i really want to start a book club, but i have a few questions before i make it happen:

1) is it better to start a book club in the summer (at a local book store) or should i start one during the school year (at my school)?
2) how do i get the funds to buy the books that we read? are there any places willing to donate to book clubs?
3) what are some books that boys and girls would be interested in reading?
4) how do i get people interested in joining?

any other tips are greatly appreciated! =]

Yeah, I would start it at school
Have everyone buy their own copy
Vampirates, Missing Persons series, Stephen King
Cool flyers

What is a good book for a book club to read?

And Offers — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 23:51:15 +0000

Me and my friends are starting book club. What are some good books you can think of that are not too difficult to read, and easy to discuss in a group? Preferably not cliched teen reads about rich, spoiled, private school girls – ex. Gossip Girl, The Clique, It Girl.

The first book my book club read was "The Five People You Meet in Heaven." We had a really good discussion on it, because we could all talk about the different people we thought would make up our five.

Usually we let each person in the group take turns picking. That way everyone gets to choose an author or genre that they KNOW they like and one and everyone else gets to read something they might not have normally picked for themselves.

Have fun with it. I love it!

How to start a Book Club?

And Offers — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 19:54:08 +0000

I’ve been hearing all kinds of good things about the book "A New Earth" and I think it would be a lot of fun (not to mention interesting) to get a few people together to read it together and discuss it. I’m just not sure where I should start as far as putting together a group of people for it. Any ideas?

well me n my friends started a book club we started together as friends but slowly after we read a book that book became popular cause they seen me n my friends have it i guess they thought since a lot of other ppl had that book it was cool so after we seen ppl like that we slowly started askin ppl to join

I would like to start a Jane Austen book club.?

And Offers — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 21:58:14 +0000

I think that it would be great to start a book club, through pen pals. Read a book every 2 weeks or so and talk about it, and then watch the movies. For the ones that there are mmovies for. I saw the previews for the movie coming out and thought it would be a great idea. Where are all the JA Fans!!!??

Let me know. I love Jane Austen!

check my email.

Darlene

How can I start a book club for my school?

And Offers — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 15:59:32 +0000

My friends and I are very interested in the new twilight books…
wondering how to start a organized discussion?

A lot of book editions contain a discussion group reading in the back as an Appendix. If your edition does not have one, you could think up questions from the novel that you could discuss and dissect.

As for actually starting a club, you would have to speak with whomever is in charge of the extra curriculars at your school. If you need a teacher’s supervision for the use of a classroom, either after school, before or at lunch, might I suggest an English or Drama teacher? Any teacher could enjoy a book club, but the standard idea is that you could "assign" a book to read for the month and then have a good discussion about the books after reading them.

If you wanted to just have a discussion about Twilight, you could get supervision from a teacher and post a sign that advertises a "Book Talk" where you would invite others who have read and loved (or hated) the book to come and speak about the finer points of it.

If you don’t want to go that far, you could have an impromptu night at your home with your friends where you can all discuss the book. Everyone has a different favourite scene, character or quote… You could get everybody to do something for it- bring a themed dish, draw a little handout, make a collage, write how you would have the scene, dress as a character, etc.. With a little hard work and perseverance, you could have a great discussion going, you just have to think up some great, open-ended questions to debate!

Good luck, and happy reading!

Hey! I want to start a book club! interested?

And Offers — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 19:14:11 +0000

I want to start an emailing book club for people who are around 14 (like me)! Anyone interested? I like a veriety of books so they all wouldn’t be the same genre! Answer this question and email me if you’re interested! Thanks!
I think eleven or twelev would be the cut off…sound good?

id love to but it kinda depends on the book….lol but sure!

I want to start a book club but don’t know how to spread the word?

And Offers — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 17:29:42 +0000

I am looking to start a book club and was wondering how I could get it out there through the internet. I don’t want to go give local flyers to the library because I live in such a small town that noone new would come and I mainly want to meet new people. so if you could help me out by giving me some website I could go to that I could post it on I’d be extremely greatful. Thanks!

myspace facebook twitter– just add hundreds or ppl and bulletin it and message/comment it-

and pass some flyers too- you never know

how do i go about starting a book club i always wanted to start one?

And Offers — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 00:37:05 +0000

tryin to start a book club any ideas please only helpful idead no joking around you guys

Okay, look around you. Who do you know who likes to read as much as you do? If you don’t know anyone, ask your librarian if she could help you out. Maybe you could post a notice on a bulletin board at your school.
If you belong to any clubs, like girl scouts or something associated with your church or temple, maybe someone there would be interested.
Good luck and keep trying. Book clubs are a fun way to get to discuss the books you’ve read, and to recommend them to others.

I want to start a book club at my school how to begin?

And Offers — Sat, 29 May 2010 08:01:21 +0000

I love to read and i want to share my books with others how can i convince my teachers and principal that having a book club is a good idea and where could i order the books from and how could i get the money?
oh i want to do this at my middle scholl for seventh and eighth graders

Not sure where you go to school, but generally you don’t need the school’s permission to have a book club, unless you want to do it during the school day. You can register as a club (you generally do need a faculty advisor, try one of the English teachers) and then sign up to use a classroom after school (like all the other clubs/organizations do), or you can hold the book club at someone’s house, after school or on a weekend.

What kind of books do you want to share with your friends?
I ask because there are all sorts of books online for free nowadays, as well as what your public and school libraries have. (Keep in mind that many libraries can do an interlibrary loan as well.) Readers can also share books, if someone is done with their copy before the group meets.

You don’t necessarily need to provide the books for the group to read, as long as you can see that multiple copies of the book are available through those three sources.

You should sit down and think through some of the structure the book club will have – How often will you meet? Will you discuss a new book each time, or a set of chapters in a longer book? Will you structure it with some kind of questions to go in and start discussions over? (an English teacher can probably help you with some of these.) Who gets to pick the book? Are there rules around picking a book? Length, genre, how old it is and other details are easy enough to decide on. Leave your parameters wide and you’ll get more participation.

You can also start out as a genre book club – you want to share your favorite books with others, right? It’s reasonable to think that other kids want the same thing. So, your first meeting can be a genre like ‘fantasy’ and everyone can come and talk about their favorite books in that genre and share that with the group.

You can do a book/movie club where the group reads a book, then discusses it and watches the movie that was made from the book – watch the movie at a second meeting if you want to split the book discussion from the movie-watching. After the movie, the group can discuss the differences between the book and the movie and whether the changes were good/bad for the storyline or changed it to an entirely different plot entirely. (Jumper by Steven Gould and the movie of the same name is a great example for this.) There are plenty of books that have been made into movies to pick from. If you want to share the cost of the movie rental, ask each person to contribute $1, then rent the movie and spend the difference on popcorn for the movie.

Food and drink make meetings a bit more fun – you can run it ‘potluck’ and ask each person to bring something to share (a bottle of soda, a pkg of cookies, a bag of chips, bottled water, etc.), don’t forget plates/napkins/cups too! Or you can just skip the food/drink entirely and expect people to bring their own. In terms of generating enthusiasm, though, I would suggest that at least your first meeting have some munchies & drinks.

I think your teachers and librarians will be more than happy to help you to come up with ideas of books, discussion questions, and even in helping you with ideas to structure the group, I’m sure that there are things I haven’t even thought of. = )

The kicker will be getting kids to participate – be creative – ask your friends if they are interested – post some flyers around school – etc. You can use a site like Yahoo Groups or, even better, www.GoodReads.com to set up a discussion group online for your group. Then you can link to books and to a ton of other readers who are also bibliophiles and can answer any question you might have. (Keep in mind it is meant to be a site for grown-ups, so book reviews are not censored for children.)

I recently heard there that the classic graphic novel "Watchmen" is currently being made into a movie (think Cold War, nuclear threat and caped crusaders). That would make a cool read/watch event once it is out.

Anyways, good luck with it!

Below are some resources for free e-books:
Project Gutenberg www.gutenberg.org
Baen Free Library www.baen.com/library/defaultTitles.htm
ManyBooks.net http://manybooks.net/
Internet Archive www.archive.org
There are probably more out there…check out google. = )

Also, besides www.GoodReads.com another good site is www.Paperbackswap.com for discussions/questions and to pick up copies of paper books (for the cost of postage, and the willingness to trade some of your own books.)