Twitter Book Club

Recently I had the idea that maybe I should try to do a @biggreenbooks Twitter Book Club.

Book Clubs at the Big Green Bookshop were really great.

The concept;

• Agree a book you're going to all read. 
• Buy it. 
• Read it. 
• Talk about it. (this is the important bit)
• Give it marks out of 10

So a couple of weeks ago I asked what people thought the first Twitter Book Club book should be. 

And here is the result. 

The winner is Circe by Madeline Miller. 

So, how does @biggreenbooks Twitter Book Club work?

Here's what I thought. 

We need to have some time to read the book, so let's set a date in early July to discuss the book. 

I have chosen Friday July 5th. Book chat will start at midday.

We can discuss the book on twitter without annoying everyone else who isn't involved. 

So I can set up a DM (direct message) group, so that nobody else has to put up with our book chat. 

If you want to join this group, send me a message using this hashtag #BGBookCirce 

You can send it to me any time between now and then. I'll add you to the group.

We can, of course still discuss it on normal Twitter, using the same hashtag. 

Most book groups meet for a couple of hours, but the beauty of #BGBookCirce is that the conversation can continue longer (you don't have to be around on July 5th, but you can catch up later and still get involved).

After the discussion, we will give marks out of 10 by Monday 8th July and the results will be announced on Tuesday 9th  July. 

I am a bookshop. I would like you to buy the book from me. So, if you'd like to get involved, please paypal £8.99 to biggreenbookshop@hotmail.com, using family and friends and then send me a DM, letting me know your address.

Alternatively, you can buy it from the website (it's £9.99 on there, cos paypal take a quid if you buy it this way and i'm not charging P+P). Link HERE.

I will do a new shortlist for August's book just before the meeting, so that if you want to join in again, you'll know what the next book is. 

If you have any other ideas, i'd be delighted to hear them. This is all new to me, so I want to get it right. 

Hope this all sounds good.