Since I've moved to downtown Chicago I've wanted to start a book club. A good chunk of my best friends live in Chicago, and I've made some new one's along the way, and I thought having a monthly "club" of some sort would be a fun way to get girl time in and pretend that we are adults.
So, finally, after 13 months of thinking about it, I sent out a mass email and we got a book club started. The book was Girls in White Dresses by Jennifer Close
A lot of other bloggers had recommended the book and so I thought it would be a good coming of age, if you will.
side note [I wasn't an enormous fan of the book. It's cute, and it's funny at parts, but I didn't fall in love with any of the characters and found myself lost a few times, curious of what the point was.]
The book club was slated for last Wednesday, so come the Monday before, I was a busy bee getting ready for it.
I wanted to keep the night casual and easy, so I only gussied up a few fun things.
I made discussion questions with Halloween scapbook paper that turned out really cute. For some reason, my picture wont upload, but I'll try to get it up later.
I would recommend printing out discussion ?'s to beginner book club members because it does keep your group talking about the book.
I made a banana bread, veggie platter, and some chips and guac and dressed up the table with some of my fall decor.![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7fQ0HT8luUBJ-pzSO6qgtTwmrYf02-Zf9wBtBPbMHBMNk2WLvoGRfoG8qm5Ljm4v4NBeIzKM-XlkEMZD7n9qJPuRth8iDQMHeLT7x4F7pM6oq_HXAHm63ovk4S9c9rFUeyltr_fFwsb0/s640/fall+054.jpg)
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Each of the guests brought a plate to share and before we knew it our night was over.
It was a great way to have friends from different circles meet and mingle, and I hope we keep this book club in tact for years to come.
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Our next book is The Book Thief Markus Zusak, which I've heard good things about.
I love to read, and I've always thought it would be great to start or join a book club one day! Looks like your first one went fantastic!
ReplyDeleteThis looks so fun! I've always wanted to join a book club =)
ReplyDeleteTess this looks like so much fun!!! haha I wanna join the club :-) Sure wish I lived closer. Would you recommend this book?
ReplyDeleteLooks fun!
ReplyDeleteThis looks great! :) So fun.
ReplyDeleteWhat a fun idea!!
ReplyDeleteNevermind the fact that I've ALWAYS wanted to do a book club and I'm insanely jealous of you for actually starting one... Your apartment is so cozy!! Is that creepy to say? haha
ReplyDeleteI love my book club. Probably because we drink more wine than we do talk about the books, ha!
ReplyDeleteThe Book Thief is realllly good!
I want to come over :( So fun!
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