Tea and Tales with Cate and Allison discussion

Hello everyone!

I hope you're having a beautiful Sunday, wherever you are! Cate and I appreciate all of you who have given feedback about this group and its format. Thank you for opening up to us and sharing your hopes and vision for this group. We are so thankful that we can have an honest discussion with all of you about how to make this group the best that it can be.

Since we are still a fairly small group, we will continue to have one official book each month, which is chosen by all of you (so don't forget to leave suggestions and vote in the polls!). Cate and I will also continue to host the ongoing buddy reads, including Middlemarch, The Diviners and Lair of Dreams, The Night Circus, and a soon-to-be-added buddy read for Miss Peregrine's for those who wish to read and discuss the rest of the series.

We recognize that not everyone will want to read whatever book is chosen each month. We want to encourage you to always keep an open mind - part of the fun of book club is reading things that are outside of your wheelhouse, and you may discover some awesome new books this way! But we also want to accommodate those of you who want to read something else.

So, if there's a runner-up from the polls or another random book that you want to read with the group, please post here! Cate or I will then create a discussion thread for you book, and you can invite other people to join you. How you organize things is totally up to you. You can do it more like a buddy read or you can have a more organized and structured discussion. Whatever you want!

We look forward to hearing what books you want to read and discuss!

Happy reading!

Allison & Cate

Thank you Alison and Cate for all the organizational work that you do!

Ditto what Lisa said.

Thanks so much ladies! Glad to have you a part of our little book club. :)

Hello everyone!

Is anyone interested in reading, We Need To Talk About Jake?

Janay

Is anyone interested in reading, The Age of Innocence, My Antonia, The Paperman or any other books in your huge TBR pile? Thanks!

Janay

Jalawa,

I'd love to read The Age of Innocent and My Antonia with you. Both of those have been on my TBR list for a while! Since they are classics, I'm sure we'd find other who would like to join as well! :)

My Antonia is pretty short and quite good. I'd love to re-read it with you both, Jalawa and Catie!

That sounds great! You guys can let me know which book you'd like to read and when, and we can go from there. Thanks! I'm sure it'll be fun. I'm sure you're (book)ed up for this month so let me know what's best for the two of you. I'm always open to reading and discussing a good book.

That sounds great! You guys can let me know which book you'd like to read and when, and we can go from there. Thanks! I'm sure it'll be fun. I'm sure you're (book)ed up for this month so let me know what's best for the two of you. I'm always open to reading and discussing a good book.

Thank you Allison and Cate for all of your hard work with the group. It is something that I really enjoy and look forward to! :)