Welcome Folks!
This is the beginning of a new endevour for a group of avid readers who have been doing something along these lines for a few years now.
Brief Bio: Once upon a time, about five years ago, a group of girls started university. Little did they know it then, but they were all destined to become friends and fall prey to a dangerous addiction - reading intelligent books. As the friendship grew with time, they shared their addiction by recommending books to each other, and then talking about the books. This was no Oprah Book Club, as the reviews often involved swearing and telling each other off for picking stupid books in addition to the more accepted custom of sharing favourite passages and talking about character development. It grew to become a bookshare, where the girls would send a copy of the book from person to person, with each person endevouring to supply at least one "must-read" each summer.
Now that all these girls had graduated from their undergraduates degrees and had become women in their own right, they were finding it harder to keep up the UnBookClub. They no longer lived in the same idyllic university town! They valiantly marched on, now sending books through mail and exchanging books whenever they met. When the news came that one of their number would be leaving the country for an exotic teaching job, new distress broke out. As efficient as the postal service tries to be within Canada, these women knew that international book sending was beyond acceptable. Also, travelling to see each other simply to say that they did or didn't like the book was ludicrious.
A new plan was born. Having previously used Blogger for a group journal, they decided to try something new. They would use the internet to share their addiction with each other so they wouldn't feel so separated by time and space.
This blog is by invitation only, and comments are only for members. If you like books, pick up anything that we've recommended - we're all Honours English majors, so I think that makes us professional readers.
Welcome to Book Snobs.
Brief Bio: Once upon a time, about five years ago, a group of girls started university. Little did they know it then, but they were all destined to become friends and fall prey to a dangerous addiction - reading intelligent books. As the friendship grew with time, they shared their addiction by recommending books to each other, and then talking about the books. This was no Oprah Book Club, as the reviews often involved swearing and telling each other off for picking stupid books in addition to the more accepted custom of sharing favourite passages and talking about character development. It grew to become a bookshare, where the girls would send a copy of the book from person to person, with each person endevouring to supply at least one "must-read" each summer.
Now that all these girls had graduated from their undergraduates degrees and had become women in their own right, they were finding it harder to keep up the UnBookClub. They no longer lived in the same idyllic university town! They valiantly marched on, now sending books through mail and exchanging books whenever they met. When the news came that one of their number would be leaving the country for an exotic teaching job, new distress broke out. As efficient as the postal service tries to be within Canada, these women knew that international book sending was beyond acceptable. Also, travelling to see each other simply to say that they did or didn't like the book was ludicrious.
A new plan was born. Having previously used Blogger for a group journal, they decided to try something new. They would use the internet to share their addiction with each other so they wouldn't feel so separated by time and space.
This blog is by invitation only, and comments are only for members. If you like books, pick up anything that we've recommended - we're all Honours English majors, so I think that makes us professional readers.
Welcome to Book Snobs.
posted by Linz at 2:06 AM
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