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Start a Book Club for Singles

There are hundreds of reasons to start a book club and one of those reasons may be to join singles together in a common interest other than being single.

For many years I was a member of a business owners book club, which in itself was exclusive. A singles book club, which sounds exclusive, makes perfectly good sense if a group of single individuals want to share their life perspectives after reading books.

Singles don’t all think alike, of course, they do have unique aspects to how they view the world just as married people share unique aspects in how they view the world. If you are thinking of joining some single friends together to discuss your views on selected books, go for it! Reading books together will provide another commonality.

If you want to get together and discuss how and why you are single, that’s your choice, however, to start a book club for singles, you may want to select books that will serve to enlighten you and support you on your single status. Two books come to mind and they are quite different from each other. The first book will certainly be more appealing to women yet men will find a lot of information that will help them be or continue to be a quality guy.

The first book I recommend is by Dr. Kenneth Ryan and is called Finding Your Prince in a Sea of Toads. I am not supposing that your single friends all want to find a prince but it will shed light on male and female interactions in the dating world. Dr. Ryan’s book gets superb reviews and discusses subject matter that is typically only discussed among close friends. I wish this book had been available when I was single! I wouldn’t have … well, nevermind.

The second book is wrapped more around achieving or maintaining good health: Honest Eating: How to Love Food, Love Yourself & Love Life. It’s written by Jane McClaren, a single woman who cleared many hurdles before she became healthy and stable. She’s on the road giving presentations and talks all across America about how easy it really is to eat and behave your way into a healthy lifestyle.

These two books could be great ways to start a book club for singles!

Green Theme for Starting Book Clubs

I often hear “How many trees did we cut down for that book” but never thought about the answer. Perhaps I didn’t care enough. If you care enough about being a good Earth Citizen by sparing trees and preserving our natural resources and are interested in starting a book club, it would make sense for you to start a Green Book Club .

Your green theme can take three forms, or any combination thereof.

1. You can focus your books only on works that discuss ways to preserve and replenish the environment. Your selections may revolve around solar energy, wind power, water conservancy, potable water creation for third world countries, recycling items and methodologies, waste reduction, cleaner air, alternative energy sources, green buildings, innovation with hybrid vehicles. The list can be lengthy.

2. Or you can read books that are only printed on recycled materials. Publishers are getting wiser about using recycled paper products but not fast enough. The recycled paper concept has been around and available for decades yet most publishers still use new, fresh paper for their book products. Some of the big publishing agencies such as Simon & Schuster, Penguin and Random House are putting special teams on the task of identifying recycled materials that would make sense for their business.

3. Your book club can avoid buying printed books altogether. You have so many options. The best option of course is the famous Kindle.

You can click here to buy a Kindle at Amazon.com. The prices are coming down a whole lot. A recent review in Consumers Report gave the Kindle rave reviews, even above Apple’s iPad. My husband recently gave me a Kindle 6” for my birthday and I am nuts about it! Other ways of sticking to your Green Theme is to only allow books that come from libraries or second hand stores, which are excellent ways to recycle books. Your club can rent books from a variety of online sources. One we have supported has been Booksfree.com. Another way to avoid buying new books is to only purchase audio formatted books. Audible.com is our preferred choice for audio books but many companies are trying to join that band wagon.

Good luck moving forward on your Green light. Starting book clubs around your ideals and passions are very satisfying.