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Dear Reader,
Remember to keep the book club fun. Read guilt-free! If you get way too busy, go on vacation, or don't like the book for the week--hit that delete key. Time is precious. Please don't feel obligated to read something that isn't a good match for you. Over 367,000 people read at the book club every day, so it's difficult to pick a winner for everyone, every week. And that's one of the reasons I offer "extras" at the book club.
You'll find the "extras" after my column. Every Monday and Thursday there's AuthorBuzz, and this week, on Friday, you'll find International Thriller Writers "Big Thrill" and also this week, you can sample the bonus book, No! I Don't Want to Join a Book Club by Virginia Ironsides. (Virginia lives in England, but she was sitting at my dining room table last week signing 15 of her books for readers.) To sample Virginia's book and enter the drawing, go to: http://tinyurl.com/5lcvha
Hopefully you'll find plenty of "extras" that you enjoy and you'll be a happy book club reader. I aim to please!
From my Email Bag:
"Suzanne, you always say if a book's not a fit, don't read it. Well, I took it a step further. I was really busy last week so I just deleted the emails each day! And I almost missed your book selling and losing your cat. So my new deal is to always read 'dear reader' and then delete the email if I'm too busy!"--Jeanne Thompson
"In the tradition of Suzanne Beecher, that's you! I sent an email to our local library to celebrate National Library Week and told them to be on the look-out for a small surprise coming up their way--chocolate chip cookies--I delivered them to two libraries. And to Marj who always has a large smile on her face when she is dealing with customers at the Sunset Library in Chandler, AZ."--Therese
"Dear Suzanne, in true 'Suzanne-fashion' I baked some chocolate chip cookies for [National Library Week]. The librarians were surprised and it felt good to do something nice for some wonderful people that work with one of my favorite things...books."--Jess Peterson
"Inspired by your idea to bake for librarians this week, my son and I made chocolate chip cookies this morning and took them to our local branch with a Thank You card. The librarians were so surprised and so grateful. They looked like little children on Christmas morning! I can't believe I never thought of doing that for them before. Thanks for the inspiration!"--Nicole Powers
"Suzanne, after your reminder last year [about National Library Week] my husband and I took a large bag of goodies to our favorite librarians in Vancouver Washington. Madeline and Patsy always greet us with a smile and have our reserved books waiting for us and we appreciate those two more than we can express. They mentioned it was the first time anyone had ever thanked them for being librarians--this year--they were thrilled again! Thank you Suzanne for our read along each day, it is through the book club that we get most of our ideas for check-out books. Of course the best part of our daily reads are your columns, I think we were sisters in another life."--Carol Johnson
Thanks for reading with me. It's so good to read with friends.
Suzanne Beecher
Suzanne@DearReader.com
http://www.DearReader.com
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