Throwback Thursday September 23, 2021

 

This is a note to self to register for the fall season of my book group.  Old cartoon!

 

 

Promoting Your Book Discussion Group in the Twin Cities

I have always wanted our library to have a page on our web site providing information about local book discussion groups.  As with many things this is apparently not possible.

 In answer to a recent question "Where and how can I promote my book group?"

Meetups.com has a nice page for book groups.  There may be a membership and or charge but people can search by geographical area and type of group so it is a nice resource.

Start a Facebook Group page.

Start a Blogger Blog for your group.

Contact your community newspaper to see if they will accept announcements for your next meeting and selection.  Usually they want notice two weeks in advance.

As always, I'm a huge fan of the online Patch newspapers which do a great job with up to date nicely wriiten articles about virtually everything going on in the community.

See if your church or city hall allows bulletin board flyers.

Talking about Mysteries

I attended my first ever book discussion group this morning. We had a small but very lively group. We agreed to read a variety of mystery subgenres, and that we would rotate into the mystery mix novels of suspense as well.

We wanted to be able to read older classic titles and authors as well as newer titles and authors. The older authors can be a problem just because often it is difficult to find multiple copies of them for a whole group to read.

In cases like these we will read any book we can find by that author for the discussion, and we will discuss their work more generally and look for common themes and perhaps methods of presenting and solving crimes.

I've agreed to do the author background, discussions and read-alikes.

This will be alot of fun, and I'm glad I chose mysteries as my first experience with book groups.

These are our first selections:

February

Daughter of Time/Josephine Tey

March

Murder in the Vicarage/Agatha Christie (Note the group is meeting Tuesday March 17th instead of Tuesday March 10th this month.)

April

Any book by A. A. Fair

May

The Devil's Teardrop/Jeffrey Deaver

June

Woman in White/Wilkie Collins