I am a huge fan of book clubs. I love to read. I love to be around other people that love to read. And I love to read books that I never would have read otherwise.
I have attended dozens of book club meetings. However, I have never organized or led my own book club.
I am an officer for my school's skeptics/freethinkers group. I decided that this would be a good group for me to lead a book club with. I like being around other freethinkers and atheists, most of whom enjoy reading. So I organized a book club meeting through facebook. Today was the day of our first meeting.
Result: I think it went well. We met in a common gathering space in one of the buildings. I thought this was a good idea at the time, but I soon realized that I should try to secure a classroom for us to use. However, we did possibly gain a new member who overheard us discussing religion and atheism. I read Chapter 1 beforehand and had several discussion points to use from the chapter. Seven other people showed up, which is a pretty good number for a book club meeting. We had enough to talk about for the hour that I had allotted for the book club meeting.
Overall, I think it was a good meeting :-) And I am proud of myself for taking the leadership role with this! :-)
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