I’m so excited to be launching the much-anticipated (for me, anyway!) MomAdvice Book Club for our readers. This has been something that we have been talking about through our Facebook community as an opportunity to bring my favorite readers together with great book selections that we can share about and discuss.

Here is what you need to know about this book club!

There Will Be Monthly Selections

Each month I will select a book that we can read together starting this January. I will do my best to give you one month’s advance notice of the next selection to give you plenty of time to purchase, borrow, or download the monthly selection. If I am at all able to get books for you or give them away, I promise to do that.

This Won’t Be Your Average Book Club

For the most part, I am going to try to stay off the path of those bestselling books that have already been heard of and have probably already been read by you. My hope is to highlight those hidden gems of books that you may not have heard of before and embrace debut novelists. The purpose in this is really twofold. By selecting a novel that a first-time novelist is trying to promote or finding books you may not have heard of before, I am hoping that many of these authors will more willing to collaborate with us by providing books and/or participating in a book club discussion with our readers. The second reason is, I truly love finding these types of books to share with you and as an author myself, appreciate promoting someone who is just beginning their career!

I will always read the selection before selecting it because I really want to be assured that I am not wasting your precious reading time. I will be honest with you about the topic-matter. There will be tough books and there will be light books. I will be honest if I feel a novel is graphic in nature, but I will not censor books from making the cut if there are scenes in it like that. I want to pick books that I believe will stick with you and sometimes those scenes will be in there (as they are in this month’s selection). If it isn’t your cup of tea, you can always avoid those types of books.

You Can Always Connect With Me on GoodReads

If your goal is to read more books this year, I highly recommend joining the GoodReads community. I use the app and site daily when deciding what books to read and finding new books to add to my to-be-read pile! You can find me over here and thanks to my author profile, you can also find my blog and stay up to date with what is happening with the site!

When & How Will We Discuss the Books?

The announcement for the books will be made by or before the first of the month. Once the selection has been made, you will have (at least) three weeks to read it. The book discussions will be on the last Tuesday of every month. One week before, should we have an author participating in a discussion, we will ask for reader questions to submit to them. The timeline is tentatively based on if that author can return the questions in that time frame. It is best to join our Facebook community and our newsletter list (new newsletter coming soon!!) to stay up to date on what is happening! Be sure if you sign up for our newsletter that you check your email box for the confirmation link to click through to make sure you are signed up!  Following the conclusion of the discussion, the next book will be announced so you can get your selection.

We will try different ways of meeting up (please leave a comment below if you have a preference). Some questions may be asked on our Facebook page, we might try a Google hangout, or perhaps some other avenues of virtual meet-ups. For this first one, we will keep it simple here on the blog! 

MomAdvice Monthly Selections (updated monthly with an affiliate link)

January- The Paris Architect by Charles Belfoure (announced HERE and book club discussion HERE)

February- A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra (announced HERE and book club discussion HERE)

March- A White Wind Blew by James Markert (announced HERE and book club discussion HERE)

April- The Bear by Claire Cameron (announced HERE)

Summer Selection- Love With a Chance of Drowning by Torre DeRoche

Summer Selection- The Orphans of Race Point by Patry Francis

If you have any questions at all, please leave them below! Happy Reading Friends!

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