(This is a sponsored post and you can skip it if you are very against sponsored posts but maybe not if you like to read books because this was seriously the best book I read this summer and you should definitely add it to your Goodreads list)
Let me tell you a story about book clubs. One time my best friend decided to join a book club. She had just moved to a new town and thought it would be a good way to make some friends. And it totally would be. Except for that when she got her first invitation with all of the details she learned that the book they were reading that month was a New York Times Best Seller. It was also totally one of the 50 Shades books.
I don’t know about you but I feel as though it would be super awkward to meet people for the very first time whilst discussing the themes of that type of book. I am blushing writing this. So my advice about starting a successful book club would be to choose books that you can discuss over coffee with your girlfriends without blushing. I recommend starting out with something with a bit tamer.
I also recommend serving petit fours, because I really like those. I would definitely come to your book club if I knew it was going to include non-blushing books and petit fours.
(Although the girls and I never actually have petit fours, we typically pick up a package of chocolate peanut butter cupcakes from Trader Joes and so that will also serve you well. But if you want to invite me to your book club, I might bring petit fours is what I am saying.)
Anyhow, my latest book club read is Little Mercies by Heather Gudenkauf. I had never actually read any of her work before but when the publisher offered to send me a copy for book club purposes I said yes because I thought it sounded really good and y’all, it was. I have read a lot of fiction this summer and this was absolutely the best. It is a bit heavy hitting with it’s themes but really well written and incredibly engaging.
I immediately downloaded the prequel, Little Lies, to my kindle upon finishing it but I haven’t finished that one yet on account of how I was letting Scarlette read books on her TOTALLY PARENTAL CONTROL PASSWORD PROTECTED toddler app on my kindle and yet she somehow managed to do this to it:
In case you were wondering no, it was not at all easy for me to figure out how in the world to get the settings back to English. I have no idea how she managed to do this. It takes me like, five minutes to get past all of the parental controls to log out of her account on there and I set the thing up.
So anyhow, if you are a book lover like me and your idea of a great Friday night is sitting around drinking coffee moscato and eating chocolate and talking books with your girlfriends, I highly recommend Little Mercies as a book club read.
You can download the free Book Club Kit here (I really enjoy when authors include discussion prompts for book clubs. Mostly because otherwise I tend to get off track and start talking about random things like the strange encounter I had at the park this week or my deep love of the Britney Spears anthology.)
And if, like me, you sometimes can’t make it to a physical book club on account of how your husband’s work schedule is bizarre and ever-changing and you have a three year old and bedtimes to do and stuff, join an online book club! I find it totally suits me to chat about what I’m reading in a private facebook book while in my pajamas. Mostly because then I don’t have to share my petit fours.
(Disclosure: This post was sponsored by Harlequin, who sent me this book which is totally not a romance novel. All words and pictures and opinions are my own, which I should think is quite obvious as maybe I talked too much about books that make me blush.)
