ARRT Book Club Study Notes: The Song of Achilles and General 2020 Book Discussion Thoughts

In May, I participated in the first ever virtual ARRT Book Club Study. We read The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller. 

You can click here to read the notes of our discussion [which we did over zoom].

And then you can click here to read the notes on the Leadership Topic of Leading Virtual Book Discussions. 

But beyond these specific notes, I also wanted to use this post to remind you all of this free resource, the resources those of us who participate in the ARRT Book Club Study create for all to use.

The meetings, the participation in the live discussions, this is only open to members, but our notes on both the books themselves and the conversations we have about how we can lead discussions better are all here in the archive, for free, to anyone who wants to access them.

There is a lot of good info here. You can use the notes to assess if a book will work for your group by seeing the notes from an example discussion. You can use the questions we asked for your discussion. And you can use the list of training topics to work on your own leadership skills.

I also wanted to remind you that I have updated my popular Recharge Your Book Club presentation. Book Clubs are one example of a library program that has stayed fairly the same even during closures because the technology can handle a discussion of fewer than 20 people easily [more than that doesn't work in person or in a Zoom].

Overall this post is a compilation of reminders to not forget about our good, old reliable but also fun and engaging friend, the book discussion.

Lots of things have had to change over the last few months, but there are some things that can stay almost exactly the same, and there is a lot of comfort, for everyone [you and your patrons] in that.