Get ready for #SummerReads!
Reading around the world
Do you have any trips planned in coming months? This summer, your intrepid SBC founders both have travel planned to our home states (Hawaii for Guinevere, Michigan for Laura) and look forward to visiting our old haunts—the libraries, bookstores, beaches, and cafés where we grew up reading.
Going home isn't the most exotic destination, so to compensate we've been exploring the #BookTravel tag in the SBC Facebook group. It covers a lot, from bookstore recommendations to literary landmarks to book lists based on upcoming trips. It's inspiring, to say the least, and vicarious fun for those of us who don't have a whirlwind global tour planned.
Summer is also when many Silent Book Club chapters move outdoors, like the London readers pictured above who met up at Culpeper Community Garden last week. If you're in Salt Lake City, Toronto, Sacramento, or the Netherlands, check the calendar for upcoming meetings al fresco, and share your book travel photos with us on Instagram by tagging them with #SilentBookClub.
Happy travel reading!
Guinevere & Laura
Chapter Spotlight: Manchester, UK Heading to England this summer? Pack your Brit lit and drop in on the Manchester Silent Book Club this Wednesday at Grano café.
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YA spotlight: Two Like Me and You
Your famous girlfriend breaks your heart. How do you win her back? Try to get famous too. Fans of John Green will love this cross-continental coming of age romance.
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🌈 BOOKMARKS
Happy Pride Month! This month we're rounding up the best book lists around the web to help you build your LGBTQ TBR.
10 New LGBTQ Books to Celebrate Pride Month. USA Today
BookRiot's Favorite Queer Books. BookRiot
The Original Cult Classic Lesbian Vampire Story. LitHub
17 LGBTQ-Friendly Books to Read to Your Kids. HuffPost
Essential Queer YA Novels to Add to Your List. Vulture
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