Garden Herb Shop Book Club

Have you ever taken part in a book club before? Do you shudder at the sight of a book, yet at the same time know that you should read more? Or do you love reading avidly but know that you need a little more people-time because your social tenacity is as pale as your sunless skin? Perhaps you already have a good balance of both and would still like to join one but have noticed that there are no book clubs in Canal Winchester!!!

Well fear no more, talk of starting a Garden Herb Shop book club is afoot in the mouths of the staff. As I've written before, the owners of Harvest Moon and The Garden Herb Shop wish that all their customers were self-educating, nutritiously-aware individuals who feed both their bodies and their minds, especially with the right things. With group activities like this as well as the Running Club, this cafe and shop is turning out to be more than just a place of business to its customers. It's a gathering of like-minded people with an interest in what is good and right and natural.

A book club is an excellent way to make connections with fellow bookworms, and make a reading-friend or two. It's a great way to be held accountable to finishing a book, which I understand is difficult for some of us. It will also be a perfect way to increase your learning throughout the summer so that your brain won't feel flabby when the new school-year rolls around. :)

Looking up how a book club runs, the basic structure of it is like so: Each month the group will go through one book together. At the beginning of the month, the group members will purchase their books at The Garden Herb Shop and begin reading it at their convenience. Close to the end of the month, a get-together will take place so that the group can meet up and discuss what they learned from the book, answering questions asked by the book club's facilitator. After the meeting the group will be able to purchase the next month's book which the leader will present. How many months the book club goes, we'll just have to wait and see.

Bertrand Russell once said, "There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it." but I would disagree by confidently stating that there is a third possible motive for reading a book: because you know that you don't know as much as you ought to know.

Let's go clubbing. :)

~The Harvest Crier~