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How
does the Odyssey Bookshop Support Community
Book Groups?
Book
Group Discounts
The
Odyssey offers 20% off book group selections, if you order five or more
per title at least two weeks in advance of the date you need them, to
be picked up by one person. To participate in
this discount program, you must register your group with the Odyssey.
Click here for a simple online
registration form. The
best way to place a book group discount order is using our online request. You may also call the store with the necessary information. When the books
come in, we’ll call the contact person and place the books behind the
counter to be picked up. Please give us plenty of time, so we can have the books available
– most groups like to have the books in hand a full month before the
meeting at which they’ll be discussed.
Meet
the Author
Would
your group like to
invite a favorite author to visit your book
group, in person or by telephone? Or having dinner together after a
reading? These events can
sometimes be arranged, especially when authors live locally, or are
visiting the area on book tour. They can add a wonderful personal context
to the book discussion.
June Book Group Gathering
Every
June, the Odyssey Bookshop hosts a Book Group Gathering for all book
groups in the Pioneer Valley. This includes recommendations from Odyssey
staff and publishers’ representatives, short readings from local
authors, refreshments, and a chance to talk informally about the joys of
reading together. We hope you’ll join us in June 2008.
Save this
date: the Book
Group Gathering is
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
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The
joy of book
groups:
A message from Elli
Hello!
My name is Elli Meeropol and I’m the book group coordinator at the
Odyssey Bookshop.
Gathering
in small groups to talk about books draws us together in very powerful
ways. We learn to understand books from the rich perspective of other
readers. And book groups are so much fun.
My
job is help your group –
with discounted books, resources, book selection ideas, or inviting an author to
meet with your group.
We
try to maintain an up-to-date list of book groups in the Valley (which is
sort of like herding cats). In response to your telephone calls and emails
asking for help in locating book groups in the area that welcome new
members,
Book Group Central
will open soon at this web site.
If you would like your book group contact information to be listed here, please contact
me at the email address below.
Since
so many readers also write of fiction, the Odyssey now offers writing
workshops. The first three sessions have been very satisfying and we
will probably start with new groups in the fall. If you are interested
in being contacted when the next
workshop forms, please email me.
Elli
Meeropol
odysseybookgrp@gmail.com
Is your book
group looking for ideas for thoughtful and insightful books to generate
wonderful discussions? Check out
the Odyssey Bookshop recommendations for book club selections here.
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