A book club is still a group of people who read and talk about their readings, usually about books of a certain genre that have been previously chosen. Traditional book clubs meet at a venue regularly, usually once a month, to give readers time to finish their books.
Today, it is easy to create an online book club. Literati is a platform that can connect you to the world’s most influential book clubs. There are several benefits you can get from an online book club as a reader or writer. Here are some of the benefits writers can get when they join one.
Meet People
Although most writers like to be
alone, the sad reality is that, as John Donne said, no one is an island. We are all connected, we are social animals, and we need that connection, especially if you plan to sell books. Being a member of a book club places you alongside other book lovers, which means that they are people who, at some point, could buy your book. And not only that, you are going to surround yourself with avid readers, with a good cultural and reader background, so you could find zero readers and good critics – at least objective critics – for your manuscript.
Read More
Joining an online book club commits you to read. You will somehow force yourself to read to meet the times. It will also help motivate you to read when you feel tired, overwhelmed, or not feel like it. Also, if before choosing the book, a list of questions has been shared for discussion, you will train yourself in academic readings, which will allow you to extract diagrams, structures, creation of characters and dialogues, and themes from each reading.
It can also be utilized to diversify your readings. In this case, you may have to step out of your comfort zone and join a book club of some genre that you are not particularly comfortable with.
Dialogue
Talking about a book can help you
understand or discover new readings. Most of the conversations you will find in a book club will revolve around the chosen book. However, more than once, the discussion will change and become more personal.
Some people will find the book’s subject something personal and will develop a different idea based on how they have perceived the reading. These observations can be very enriching for the writer since they can see first-hand how the same reading can mean different things to different people and how the themes develop and affect real life.
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