You're listening to the Beautiful Mess podcast. Today we're going to share the benefits of being part of a local book club and creative ideas for starting your own book club if that's something you're interested in doing.

We get a lot of questions about how to make adult friends and hands down a book club is the best way to get

started. At the end of this episode, we're also going to share the hills we would gladly die on.

I'm excited for that. So I'm so excited about this episode because when I moved back to our

hometown, Emma was encouraging me to join this group. And it's technically a book club. We're going to

call it a book club for the purposes of this episode, but we'll also explain the other,

the other that goes on. Mostly when the book's good, it's a book club. And when everyone doesn't

get into the book, then it's not a book club. And that, you know, it ebbs and flows. Yeah. And I think that that's really good. And I heard this advice from one of my other friends when I was struggling, when I moved to the suburb and I was struggling with kind of like feeling like I didn't have any friend group friends. Yeah. She was like join a book club. And yeah, like I think it's just like such a great way to find

people who at least share one interest with you. And there are different sorts of clubs. We're

going to talk through that too. But first I thought we would share kind of like about our book club and

like how it's benefited our lives.

Um, so you start with that because you were in it way before me.

Yeah.

And I'm trying to remember how I got invited or how I kind of knew they had it.

I really don't remember.

I'd have to ask someone else. I have a notoriously bad memory.

But I've been it for many, many years now.

And it's a lot of women my age, five years in both directions. Yeah. And over the course of the whole time I've been in it, the majority of the time we've done nonfiction books. So things that are, they don't call it self-help anymore. What do we call it? Personal development. A lot of personal development books. development books done a little bit of fiction here

and there i don't feel like that's as much of a fit in this particular group although i generally

think fiction's actually the way to go one ever reads the fiction books which is kind of funny yeah

and tell them what we're currently doing we just started a new one one. Oh yeah, we just started the artist way.

And that's like the artist's way, if you don't know, is a 12-week program, like a kind of like a, it's kind of a creative course. So I think that's actually going to be like the best fit we've ever done because the most people seem to be interested in it so far. We'll see. Sorry. I think the artist way is incredible and I'm so

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