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[close] Welcome to The Armed Detective Agency! We are a group of individuals gifted with powers who focus on solving crimes which are considered too violent or difficult for the Military to solve themselves. Come join and make your own literary hero!

[close] Welcome to this Buddy-Read Group! The main purpose is if you are planning on reading a book, and want to nominate it for a buddy read, you can do so here :) Mark your books here: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/127422.B_R_Shelf We will then set a date for the book that gets nominated, and you can join into the discussion! There will be a Deciding topic for each book followed by the discussions of the chapters as you read the book. Open a particular discussion of chapters only when you have read those chapters. Once you've read the chapters, you can view the discussion for those and so on. You can nominate books you'd like to Buddy Read. We'll decide 2 or 3 (depending on the number of votes) each month through polls. We also have monthly Reading Sprints, Challenges and other fun discussions :) BR’s have no set date, so relax and make a post! And feel free to invite your friends :) P.S. Thank you to all the active participants:

[close] Group for 1x1 roleplays, 1x1x1's, 1x1x1x1's, and so forth.

[close] Here we go, Nina, may this be an RP full of fun!

[close] A place for group and individual development

[close] This is a group for the MANTEO HIGH SCHOOL BATTLE OF THE BOOKS TEAM

[close] Read for 30 minutes a day; post about it and accumulate points!

[close] We envision the club as an opportunity for us to collectively learn about relevant topics that will challenge our thinking, broaden our perspectives, and influence us as individuals.

[close] Goodreads group for the Pathfinder Elementary book club. A place to track our books that we've read or recommended to eachother!

[close] Reading about evolution, neuroscience, etc.

[close] This is a place to discuss the books featured in the Books Of Your Life with Elizabeth podcast. Everyone is welcome. Please share! Subscribe to the audio podcast: Stitcher · Google Play · Spotify · TuneIn See our book picks: https://www.goodreads.com/group/bookshelf/623569-books-of-your-life-with-elizabeth?view=covers Suggest books: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/list_group/623569-books-of-your-life-with-elizabeth

[close] Welcome to this Buddy-Read Group! The main purpose is if you are planning on reading a book, and want to nominate it for a buddy read, you can do so here :) Mark your books here: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/127422.B_R_Shelf We will then set a date for the book that gets nominated, and you can join into the discussion! There will be a Deciding topic for each book followed by the discussions of the chapters as you read the book. Open a particular discussion of chapters only when you have read those chapters. Once you've read the chapters, you can view the discussion for those and so on. You can nominate books you'd like to Buddy Read. We'll decide 2 or 3 (depending on the number of votes) each month through polls. We also have monthly Reading Sprints, Challenges and other fun discussions :) BR’s have no set date, so relax and make a post! And feel free to invite your friends :) P.S. Thank you to all the active participants:

[close] Yay Postcards! We are an International group of people who love reading and mail. Please join our monthly postcard exchange! Newbies Welcome!

[close] Persephone Books specializes in rediscovering 20th century novels, neglected women writers, twentieth century women writers and out of print books. The full list of books is on their website. Members, feel free to list Persephone books you'd like to read under the discussion "Book selections".

[close] Welcome to the Bee’s Bookshelf, the official book club of the Scripps National Spelling Bee! We are so excited you want to talk about books with us. We will read a new book together every month, and you can find this month’s book on our “currently-reading” shelf. There is no set reading schedule for the month, so read at your own pace and jump into our conversations about the book whenever you’re ready. If you have questions, comments or thoughts to share about a book, please leave a comment or start a discussion in that book’s designated folder. Also, be sure to check out the “Bookshelf Recommendations” folder. This is where our members (aka: you!) can leave recommendations for their favorite books. We may even pick the book you recommend as next month’s read! Happy reading, everyone!

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[close] No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read it!) Goodreads honors wordsmiths: poets and poetry promoted and prompted here. ~~~ "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." -- Carl Sandburg “God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.” —Anne Sexton On Clouds – “…what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about…” —Yevgeny Zamyatin “If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn’t wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.” —Donald Hall “Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.” —Boris Pasternak “Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.” —Charles Simic “Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.” —Gustave Flaubert “Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” —Allen Ginsberg. ~~~~~ Amy King, Moderator Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women’s National Book Association). Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and is co-editing with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology, Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She is also co-editing the anthology, Bettering American Poetry 2015, and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College.

[close] This group is for people who want to participate in the Popsugar reading challenge for 2018. This year the Popsugar website posted a reading challenge that included a list of 40 different ways to choose your next book to read plus an additional 10 for an "advanced challenge". In this group we will follow those lists (whether you do all 50 or stick to 40) to choose books to read for 2018. Starting January 1, 2018 we will compare books, lists and the number of books we've all read from the list. Anyone is welcome in this group so feel free to invite your friends!

[close] The world is made up of two kinds of people, first are those who love classics, the second are those who have not yet read a classic. Be bold and join us as we tackle the classics, New & Old Classics, Long & Short Classics and some that just exhibit potential to become a classic. If you are part of the second group of people, the classic you can love for a lifetime is just pages away. Here in this group you will find members from around the world that are interested and supportive about reading classics, so don’t delay, join today.

[close] A book group devoted to reading and discussing novellas (one a month). Definition of NOVELLA 1) plural novelle : a story with a compact and pointed plot 2) plural usually novellas : a work of fiction intermediate in length and complexity between a short story and a novel A novella is a written, fictional, prose narrative longer than a novelette but shorter than a novel. While there is some disagreement as to what length defines a novella, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Nebula Awards for science fiction define the novella as having a word count between 17,500 and 40,000.[1] Although the novella is a common literary genre in several European languages, it is less common in English. English-speaking readers may be most familiar with the novellas of H. G. Wells, particularly The Time Machine, The Invisible Man and The Island of Doctor Moreau, Henry James’ The Aspern Papers, The Turn of the Screw and Daisy Miller, John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men and Tortilla Flat, Herman Melville's Billy Budd, Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis, Rebcca West’s The Return of the Soldier, Jack London’s The Call of the Wild, Thornton Wilder’s The Bridge of San Luis Rey, George Orwell's Animal Farm, Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's, Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Thomas Mann's Death in Venice, Philip Roth's Goodbye, Columbus and Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. Most of the best-known works of H. P. Lovecraft are novellas, including The Shadow out of Time, The Dunwich Horror and The Shadow Over Innsmouth. Like the English word "novel", the English word "novella" is derived from the Italian word "novella" (plural: "novelle"), for a tale, a piece of news. As the etymology suggests, novellas originally were news of town and country life worth repeating for amusement and edification.

[close] Officially 10k Members Strong & Climbing!! Building and supporting a community of self-published authors dedicated to both sharing experiences and learning as equals. Founded in January 2015, this groups was initially designed as a way for me to support indie authors by reading their work and featuring them on my website. Since then it has evolved into a valuable resource and support system for authors who have or would like to self-publish. With the help of some patient and efficient moderators, Riley Amos Westbrook, BB Wynter, VM Sawh, Christina McMullen, Dwayne Fry, GG Atcheson, Melissa Jensen, Ashley Capes, J. Daniel Layfield, & CB Archer, Support Indie Authors fights to help indie authors rise above the stigma that is self publishing, as well serves to provide a supportive environment for those who want to share experiences, ask for help, and simply find some friends with common goals.

[close] This is the reading club hosted by a group of YA writers called The YA Story Sisters. Once a month we will be reading and discussing one book selected by the group, and when possible there will be a live chat here with the author.

[close] This is the reading club hosted by Colleen Houck, the author of the NYT bestselling series TIGER'S CURSE & the NYT bestselling novel REAWAKENED. Once a month we will be reading and discussing one book that Colleen selects and, if occasion permits, she will host a live chat here with the author of the book.

[close] This global discussion group has been designed to encourage debates about important and underreported issues of our era. All you need is an enquiring mind and a desire to gain or share “underground knowledge”. This is also a place for readers to discuss the controversial topics explored in The Underground Knowledge Series (non-fiction books) by James Morcan & Lance Morcan as well as the Underground Knowledge podcast show.

[close] We offer love, compassion & kindness to create a better world. The moderator proposes books by & about people who have done this profoundly...Martin L. King, Gregory Boyle, Adam Kahane, Gandhi, Burt Berlowe, & our moderator Caroline Cottom. Everyone is welcome to nominate books. Our members are from Nigeria, India, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Philippines, Japan, Tunisia, Morocco, Egypt, Uganda, New Zealand, Australia, Maldives, Canada, U.K., U.S., Netherlands, Ireland, Sweden, Norway, Turkey, Armenia, Albania, Russia, Mexico, Ecuador, Brazil, and more!

[close] A discussion of women in literary science fiction.