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Educate Yourself Book Club started in November 2020, during the pandemic, in an effort to read books with social justice themes, and to learn more about those themes together.
Five years later, we now focus less on specific themes, and more on reading books by authors from marginalised communities as a way to support them, and to keep learning.
At some point at the end of 2022, with a few meet ups cancelled for lack of attendance, we wondered if it was worth carrying on with the book club. Somehow, that exact same month the book club picked up, and since 2023 we have had a regular influx of readers.
We love seeing a full house, and we love that we continue to be given a chance to discuss these books with you every other month.
It’s a joy, and a privilege, and we’re so glad we get to count 5 years of it!
Five years doing this, with more or fewer readers around me, deserves a little celebration!
It comes a little later than we had first planned, but we find it is a great way to start the year together!
For this meet up we have something different in the cards: we will be doing a BYOB (Bring Your Own Book) + a Book Swap!
Bring Your Own Book
This is going to be very similar to a book club session, but instead of talking about the same book together, we will all have the opportunity to bring a book to talk about with the group.
If you have a favourite book you’d love to recommend, or if you feel like talking about your current read, bring them along!
Without spoilers, it will be a bit of a book club remix, talking about our favourite books – or simply showing off what we are reading at the moment.
Book Swap
Do you own any book(s) that you aren’t going to read, or have read and don’t want to keep? Then this is the time to pass them on to someone who wants to take them from your hands, and give those books a new life!
You don’t need to wrap up the books; just bring them along and I will put them on display, then one by one you will have the chance to pick one book that catches your attention and take it home with you at no cost, while your books will also be available as a choice to other readers.
Because books deserve to be read, and offered a second chance to be loved.
If you don’t own any books to swap, that is absolutely fine! I am going to be distributing book swap numbers at the start of the event to those who have books to swap so they can have a go first at choosing from the books available. Once everyone with a book to swap has had a go, those who didn’t bring a book will have a chance to choose one book as well.
The point of the book swap is for as many books as possible to find a new home.
Because this is an event, we ask that you get a FREE ticket via this link.
We have limited seating, and without a ticket we can’t guarantee you a seat.
Coffee, tea, water, and snacks are on us! And there are going to be a couple of fun surprises for you all! 🙂
I know that providing accessibility should be a given, but unfortunately we are a bit constrained, as the best spot to hold these meetings is up a flight of stairs with no lift, and the toilet is down a flight of stairs.
If you need accommodation, please let us know so that we can change things around a bit to make it possible.
