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Book Club Ideas for The Night Circus

October 19, 2016 By Jessica Filed Under: Book Club 2 Comments

Night Circus Book Club Ideas

If you're looking for an amazing book club read that's perfect for October, you should pick up The Night Circus (affiliate link).  Here's a few things that we did at our Night Circus Book Club. Decor We were greeted with this chalkboard sign with a quote straight from the book Then we saw a table full of food with ... Read More »

 Posted on: October 19, 2016 8:15 am By Jessica Filed Under: Book Club | Tagged With: Book Club
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Book Club Ideas for The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton

February 19, 2016 By Jessica Filed Under: Book Club 5 Comments

Last November, we read The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton for book club.  Our lovely host decided to do a tea party since this book was set in the WWII and proper society was important in the book. Plus, tea party! It was so fun!  Here are some pictures of what we ate and at the end ... Read More »

 Posted on: February 19, 2016 8:10 am By Jessica Filed Under: Book Club | Tagged With: Book Club
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Wonder Book Club Ideas for Grown-ups

October 26, 2015 By Jessica Filed Under: Book Club 4 Comments

October is Choose Kind month.  I found so many great resources online for discussing this book in classrooms with kids.  But I wanted to put together some things we did for my book club of "grown-ups."  This was a great book club pick.  Don't pass it up because it's written for kids.  Here's some things ... Read More »

 Posted on: October 26, 2015 7:02 pm By Jessica Filed Under: Book Club | Tagged With: Book Club
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Tips for Hosting a Book Club

March 10, 2015 By Jessica Filed Under: Book Club 19 Comments

I love our book club.   But running a book club is something this introverted girl had never done and I ran into a few challenges that I didn't expect.  I wanted to talk about how our book club changed and evolved into the amazing and fun group it is now and share with you ... Read More »

 Posted on: March 10, 2015 8:49 am By Jessica Filed Under: Book Club | Tagged With: Book Club
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Book Club Christmas Party

December 17, 2014 By Jessica Filed Under: Book Club 7 Comments

You may not know this but I host a book club in my neighborhood.  We had an awesome Christmas book exchange on December 2. I wanted to blog about it in case anyone wants some fun ideas for their book club. There was tons of food. Thank you Brit for modeling the food for us :)   There ... Read More »

 Posted on: December 17, 2014 8:00 am By Jessica Filed Under: Book Club | Tagged With: Book Club
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