Hit your reading goals for 2023 with the Concordia Book Club
Are you a bookworm and don’t know what book on your TBR list to attack first? I have a perfect solution for you: Concordia’s very own book club.
Journalism student Alexandra Blackie started the Concordia Book Club this winter semester and is looking forward to welcoming many new students to the club.
Blackie wanted to join a book club when she started university in September, but the only book-related club was Concordia’s comic book club. “No hate to the comic book club but that’s not really my niche,” she said jokingly.
The lack of an actual book club was Blackie’s motivation to kickstart the initiative and form Concordia’s official book club.
“It did take a little bit of a long time for it to get started. There were a lot of back and forth emails with the CSU,” Blackie explained.
Blackie wanted to create a social space that did not feel like school. She wanted a space where book-lovers could come together to read novels that are either popular right now or ones that not a lot of people know about.
In this club, Blackie doesn’t dictate the books that the club members have to read.
“I don’t actually choose the books, I gave them a stack for the first meeting that they chose from. We just go through a TBR jar. Everyone sent me titles that they want to read and we go from there,” Blackie said.
In terms of how the club functions, Blackie came to a mutual agreement with the other club members that they would read one book for the entire month. At the end of the month, the club regroups in a meeting.
“We picked our first book at our first meeting over Zoom out of a pile that they chose from. For the next book that we read, we are going to pick from a TBR jar,” Blackie explained.
This month’s read is The Guest List by Lucy Foley.
The club currently has 22 members. As the weather warms up, Blackie hopes to host in-person events like picnics where the club can discuss their current reads.
For interested participants, you can go through the CSU active club portal and email [email protected].
