200 Chapters and Counting...
200 Chapters and Counting...
Happy 02/02/2020! Other than it being the first palindrome day in 909 years, we had another reason to celebrate. This month we welcomed our 200th chapter to Silent Book Club! When we launched our website in 2016 we joked that our mission was to fill every bar in the country with readers. We had no idea that we should have set our sights higher. Continents higher. Book lovers now gather in 27 countries around the world to read together in public, and new chapters join the club every week.
As literary kismet would have it, the 200th chapter to register on our website was located in Guernsey, as in, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. Fortunately, as this is Silent Book Club, no pie-baking is required for their first meetup on February 16. We're not that kind of book club. Thank god.
We hope that your 2020 will be filled with books and friends and time to enjoy them both.
Gratefully yours,
Guinevere & Laura
Chapter Spotlight: Fort Wayne Congrats to the Fort Wayne, Indiana chapter of Silent Book Club, which celebrated its one-year anniversary this month. Follow on Instagram, or join them on Facebook!
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BOOKMARKS
Here are some highlights of what we've been reading online.
The ZORA Canon: The 100 greatest books ever written by African American women ZORA
Say Less, Feel More: The New Communication Minimalism Psychology Today
The Best Middle East books of the year (2019) Middle East Eye
Where is the diversity in publishing? The Open Book Blog
3 Things I Learned From Attending A Silent Book Club The Incessant Bookworm
American Dirt: Dignity & Equity Medium
Grade 11 students in Ottawa are ditching Shakespeare for Canada's Indigenous authors Ottawa Citizen
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