What weāre about
Join other book lovers for adventures in reading and real life! LOVE TO READ AND TRY NEW ACTIVITIES?
Join this unique book club where we will casually discuss a book while engaging in an activity or exploring a location inspired by the book! This will be a no-pressure book club. If you don't finish the book or didn't like it, no problem. Please join us anyway for a meal and an event. Weād love to get to know you!
Newsletter/FB group: Meetup isnāt great at sending out notifications, so to stay up to date with the latest book and activity pairings,Ā sign up for the newsletter at https://mailchi.mp/fc5e0725650d/thenoveltourist and join the community on our Facebook group: [https://www.facebook.com/share/z7aGScVNC95MEbi6/ ](https://www.facebook.com/share/z7aGScVNC95MEbi6/)
Audrey, the club founder also posts regularly on books and book pairings on Instagram via @thenoveltourist
This will be a great way to meet fellow book lovers who also want to live a well-read and well-rounded, adventurous life. Most of the activities will take place in and around Cecil and Harford Counties and surrounding areas. Sometimes we will branch out to further areas.
Are you ready for a new book and a new activity? Grab that book (or eBook) and let's go explore together!
Diane and Audrey
Upcoming events (4+)
See all- Meet & Greet - Find Your Next Literary Adventure Friends! š„³šLink visible for attendees
Books? Adventure? Friends? Yes! The Novel Tourist Book Club is a literary community whose š§ adventures are inspired by books!š
If youāre new (or just havenāt joined an event yet), weād love to meet you!
This relaxed online get-together is your chance to meet fellow book lovers, hear about how the club works, and get a sneak peek at whatās coming up.
Iāll put the zoom link up on the day of the event.
š§āš»In the meantime, get inspired on our social:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thenoveltourist
Facebook Community: https://www.facebook.com/thenoveltouristWebsite: https://thenoveltourist.com/
- Suggest šSeptemberās Member Choice š Book! Theme: Fall Harvest ššLink visible for attendees
š Suggest a Book for Septemberās Book Club Theme: Fall Harvest! šš»š
As the air turns crisp and the leaves start to turn, weāre diving into a theme that celebrates the bounty of the season ā Fall Harvest! Think books involving apples, grapes, sunflowers, orchards, vineyards, or anything else that captures the magic of this time of year.
š Now itās your turn to plant the seeds!
Use this Google Form to share your book suggestions that fit the Fall Harvest theme ā whether itās set on a farm, in a vineyard, at a harvest festival, or simply features the beauty of nature and abundance.
Letās find something ripe for discussion! š
After we get your ideas, weāll pick 4 for you to select a winner!
The poll will close on July 26, so donāt delay!
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Each month we put out a call for ideas for one book that will have both an online discussion event as well as an inperson event. After you share your ideas, we'll pick four to put out for vote as the Member Choice Book for the month. After the book is chosenā¦well thatās when the fun begins! Stay tuned for the exciting paired online discussion and in person event!This is not an "event" it is just a post to share the link to suggest the Member Choice Book for this month's theme. But feel free to click "attend" because then Meetup will show this to more people and we'll get lots of great book club book ideas!
šStay connected to other adventurous readers! Join the Novel Tourist online community:
šøInstagram! https://www.instagram.com/thenoveltourist/
šFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheNovelTouristThanks for participating! Reading books and doing stuff together as a book club brings us all so much joy. š¤©
Diane and Audrey
- Julyās Member Choice Book! š Winner! Online Discussion The Boxcar Librarian šLink visible for attendees
Julyās book!!! The clear winner was The Boxcar Librarian as the July member choice book for the theme āTransportation.ā Woot woot!
Inspired by true events, a thrilling Depression-era novel from the author of The Librarian of Burned Books about a womanās quest to uncover a mystery surrounding a local librarian and the Boxcar Libraryāa converted mining train that brought books to isolated rural towns in Montana.
Our online discussion will be the last Monday of July at 7 PM! The event with zoom link will be posted soon!
Stay tuned for the paired inperson adventure related to the book.
This is our online book club discussion night (always the last Monday of each month). Zoom link will be posted on the day of the event.
šNOVEL: The Boxcar Librarian by Brianna Labuskes
Genre: Historical Fiction
Transportation: TrainWhen Works Progress Administration (WPA) editor Millie Lang finds herself on the wrong end of a potential political scandal, sheās shipped off to Montana to work on the stateās American Guide Seriesātravel books intended to put the nationās destitute writers to work.
Millie arrives to an eclectic staff claiming their missed deadlines are due to sabotage, possibly from the stateās powerful Copper Kings who donāt want their long and bloody history with union organizers aired for the rest of the country to read. But Millie begins to suspect that the answer might instead lie with the townās mysterious librarian, Alice Monroe.
More than a decade earlier, Alice Monroe created the Boxcar Library in order to deliver books to isolated mining towns where men longed for entertainment and connection. Alice thought she found the perfect librarian to staff the train car in Colette Durand, a minerās daughter with a shotgun and too many secrets behind her eyes.
Now, no one in Missoula will tell Millie why both Alice and Colette went out on the inaugural journey of the Boxcar Library, but only Alice returned.
The three womenās stories dramatically converge in the search to uncover what someone is so desperately trying to hide: what happened to Colette Durand.
Happy Reading!
Diane and Audrey-------------------The below is silly babble just for the algorithm - no need for book club members to read this!-------------------------------
Reading books everywhere including in cecil county Maryland neighborhoods is such a fun way to make new friends and be social with book loving book club members who like to read and explore urban areas and try new activities such as hiking, reading, craft, hobbies, museums and more! It's especially fun for a book club to go on outdoor and indoor adventures with all the book club friends who like to explore and try new hobbies and discuss books and be always
