Walking book clubs,knitting book clubs ... readers aren’t convinced with just chatting over a bottle of wine anymore, they want something differentEvery month, or I lead a group for a walk across Hampstead Heath while we talk about a book. Emily’s Walking Book Club works on the premise that it is easiest to talk to someone when you fall in step with one another,side-by-side. I’m convinced that the movement of our limbs aids the movement of our thoughts, and the fresh air and beautiful views attend too.
Somewhere between 10 and 40 of us gather to walk and talk. I wonder what our collective noun would be – a series of walking book clubbers? An edition, or a print elope? Crucially,we can all talk at once, as the group fragments into twos, and threes and fours to allow myriad (a very large number) conversations. We periodically regroup to recap,read aloud and launch into a new topic. This means that no single reader can dominate and, whether there’s a clash of personalities, and it’s easy to avoid one another.
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Source: theguardian.com