Virtual Silent Book Club - Welcome to Introvert Happy Hour
Stay home, read books
While we are all adjusting to the new abnormal, we're grateful to our local organizers who have been continuing to host online meetups. Our volunteers have hosted more than 50 virtual Silent Book Clubs since March, a remarkable example of how this community shines, even in dark times.
These virtual meetups have helped (forced!) us find time to focus on reading, which has been a challenge otherwise. We always feel better after connecting with other readers around the world—and completing a few chapters of an in-progress book.
If you missed our first Meet the Author event with Angie Kim, best-selling author of Miracle Creek, you can catch the recording on YouTube and find a reader Q&A with Angie on our blog. We have more authors on deck, so keep your eye out for an invitation coming your way soon.
We are grateful to all of you who are doing your part to stay home and help others in need. Whether you're supporting local bookstores, volunteering to feed workers on the frontlines, or donating your time, money, sewing skills, or blood, we see you and we thank you for joining us in banding together to help our communities get through this crisis.
Take care,
Guinevere & Laura
P.S. Mother's Day in the US is next Sunday, May 10. Don't forget! If you need a gift idea, we're giving away a one-year subscription to Sips by, a tea service delivered to your door each month.
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Here are some highlights of what we've been reading online.
The little book sellers that could The Washington Post
Favorite Zoom pastime: spying on famous people's bookshelves The New York Times
Casting the perfect adaptation of Jane Austen's Emma Jezebel
Social Distancing Book Clubs Time
Amazon workers strike for basic protections as company profits from Covid-19 The Washington Post
A short history of mystery and some indubitably great reads Bookbar blog
Getting through it together, one book at a time bookgaga
What to read this month, based on your sign lithub
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