Twitter Book Club. It's back. (#BGBookClub)

Last year I had an idea that I should try to do a @biggreenbooks Twitter Book Club.

And it was a load of fun.

It was a really simple concept.

 

1.       Choose a book to read via a twitter poll

2.       Read it.

3.       Talk about it (this is the important bit)

4.       Give it marks out of 10

And it all went really well with some great chats about some rather marvellous books. Then stuff (stuff) happened and it kind of ground to a halt.

 

But, it’s time to ungrind, because, whilst stuff is still happening, it seems likely that stuff is going to be happening for the foreseeable future, and i'm tired of letting stuff get in the way.

So.

Welcome back to the Twitter Book Club

It’s now the end of August and we’ll need time to read the book so need to have some time to choose and read the book, so let's set a date in early October to discuss the book.

I have chosen Monday October 5th. Book chat will start at midday.

 

I’ll set up a DM (direct message) group, so that people who’ve read the book and want to talk about it can chat about it on Twitter, without filling up their timeline.

 

If you’d like to join this group group, send me a message using this hashtag #BGBookClub

You can send it to me any time between now and October 5th. I'll add you to the group.

We can, of course chat about the book on normal Twitter, using the same hashtag.

 

Most book groups meet for a couple of hours, but the lovely thing about Twitter Book Club was that people were able to chat about the book over a couple of days, so you won't have to be around on October 5th, you can catch up later and still get involved. Also unlike normal Book Clubs, nobody can look at you disapprovingly as you snaffle the last glass of wine in the bottle.

 

After the discussion, we will give marks out of 10 by Thursday 8th October and the results will be announced on Friday 9th.

I am a bookshop. I would like you to buy the book from me. So once the book has been chosen, I’ll let you know how to do this. This is not obligatory, obvs. The important thing for me, is that as many people who want to, get the chance to be involved.

Right.

First thing we need to do is choose a book.

I’m about to put a poll up on Twitter, but the choice for the first book is between these four titles.

1.       Mr Loverman – Bernadine Evaristo

2.       The Mothers – Brit Bennett

3.       My Sister the Serial Killer – Oyinkan Braithwaite

4.       Nickel Boys – Colson Whitehead

 

This poll will be up for 24 hours. Please vote and share as the more people who know about it, the better it’ll be!
 
If you have any other ideas, i'd be delighted to hear them. I have a plan to turn this into a Zoom book club, but let’s not run before we can walk eh?
 
Hope this all sounds good.