Finding a Great Book to Read Just Got Easier
So many books, so little time. For all those busy people, the Pember Library has a new service sponsored by the Friends of the Pember Library: an Online Book Club that delivers books electronically. Each day, Monday through Friday, the library e-mails subscribers a portion of a book that takes about 5-minutes to read. They’re able to read two or three chapters from a book during the week. If they like a book, they can check it out of the library.
Each week the library features new books, so if the current book is not one that interests you, the editor/moderator, Suzanne Beecher, encourages you to “hit the delete key without guilt”. Suzanne also has a personal message at the beginning of the read every day. It is like getting a note from a close friend every day.
There’s a book club for just about everyone, including: fiction, non-fiction, romance, mystery, science fiction, audio, business, pre-publication (be the first to see these soon-to-be-released books), teen, good news, and thriller. Now you can discover great books, even if you’re too busy to visit the library.
On Mondays and Thursdays, Suzanne, your book club editor, offers a link to AuthorBuzz, where she introduces you to three or four authors and their books. Suzanne also holds giveaways where you can win funny or cool prizes–and once a month, Suzanne bakes homemade chocolate chip cookies for the winners of her monthly Chocolate Chip Cookie giveaway. This new service makes it easy for people to get back into the habit of reading. It only takes 5-minutes a day and it’s fun.
Currently subscribers are reading the following books:
Furious Improvisation by Susan Quinn, nonfiction;
Suspicious Minds by Christy Barritt, good news;
Boot Camp by Todd Strasser, teen;
Daemon by Daniel Suarez, fiction;
Habit: The 95% of Behavior Marketers Ignore by Neale Martin, business;
The Rebel and the Lady by Kathryn Albright, romance;
What Lies in Shadow by Tina Wainscott, mystery.
Next week the following books are featured:
Write It When I’m Gone by Thomas M. DeFrank, nonfiction;
Don’t Let Me Go by David W. Pierce, good news;
Lost on Planet China by J. Maarten Troost, audio;
Triskellion by Will Peterson, teen;
The Wednesday Letters by Jason F. Wright, fiction;
Create Marketplace Disruption by Adam Hartung, business;
High Noon by Nora Roberts, romance;
Chambers of Death by Priscilla Royal, pre-pub;
Scone Cold Dead by Kaitlyn Dunnett, mystery;
Invincible (Star Wars Legacy of the Force) by Troy Denning, sci-fi;
The Illumination by Jill Gregory & Karen Tintori, thriller.
You can sign up for the service at the library or on our web site. Click on the box at the left that says Online Book Clubs.
The online book clubs are a fun and stress free way to read. And, as Suzanne always ends her columns, “It’s so good to read with friends.”