How does a book club operate?

I'm sure there's more to a book club than just reading books, but what?



Thinking of setting up a book club in my area, and want to do it just right.



is it realistic to ask members of the book club to read a novel in 2 weeks?



any other ideas, suggestions or tipes would be appreciated, thanks.How does a book club operate?
Usually the purpose of a book club is to read a book and then discuss it. One book a month is fairly common. One every 2 weeks seems a bit unrealistic, unless the members are mostly retired people without many other claims on their time.

Here are some suggestions as to how to get a book club started and run it successfully:

http://www.book-clubs-resource.com/runni鈥?/a>
There is another kind of a book club. This is the commercial book club like Book of the Month Club and The Literary Guild. For many years, these commercial book clubs eclipsed the local reading club, which never quite died out, of course.

A member of commercial book club usually received an expensive book premium or a book for a very low price for joining, and agreed to purchase a minimum number of books during the year. The monthly selection was a special book club edition of a current book, produced in such a large printing that the club couldafford to give its membrs a special price. This kind of a book club has been around since 1927. In recent years, its importance in book publishing has declined, or has taken a new turn, as with Oprah's Book Club.



Historically, the commercial book club was a spinoff of the old neighborhood book club or book circle, which started in Germany and Austria after the First World War, when there were few books to be had and neighbors banded together to share them and share their reading experiences.

So I guess we've now come back to Square One.



There is a website you might want to look at that has ideas about starting up, operating, and keeping a book club or reading circle running.How does a book club operate?
Usually book clubs meet once a month. Not everyone can read quickly with the comprehension needed for book discussion. I had a writer's group meet in my home once a month for a couple of years, and-- though it was different in that we read pieces we'd written out loud and commented after each reading, both constructive criticism and how/where to place a finished piece-- it's still somewhat similar.



For that group I provided snacks and drinks, my neighbor always set up a vase of fresh flowers (no, not always. In the winter I built a fire...), and each person was encouraged to take part however they wanted to. One was an artist, pencil sketches, very good, and would draw portraits of someone present and usually give it to him or her, if she felt it was good enough. Some wrote poetry, others prose; there was fiction and nonfiction. No young/restless/sleepy children were allowed, however.



The best part about that group was that nearly 100% of the regulars had something published by the end of that couple of years. A very nice thing to have happen.



I simply advertised I was starting the group in the larger local paper, and put up notes at the library and at a nearby university. That's all it took as far as start-up went. The group was elastic in that 'everyone' wasn't there every month, but 'everyone' did come back at one point or another. We had an 'end' party when we felt finished, and that was that.

Told you all this just in case it helps you set up your book club.

Luck.
My old elementary school used to have a book club every month. For many, that was the perfect timing, because otherwise, they wouldn't had finished the book. There would be time talking about the theme, the characters, and the plot.How does a book club operate?
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