The Sisterhood of the Travelling Books
May 30, 2007 at 8:32 PM
by Ashleigh
Finally! A solution for all of us who like to read in English, yet live in a country where English literature may be difficult to find, or pricey.
Shelley of At Home in Rome and Jessica of In Search of Dessert, who is also the founder of Readers without Borders have teamed up to bring us The Sisterhood of the Travelling Books.
Not only can you read books for the cost of postage, but you can contribute your own notes and experiences which then get passed onto the next reader.
Just imagine, a virtual bookclub spanning hundreds of different countries ...
I recently did a swap of some magazines with Karen of Bake My Day and I can't tell you how fun it was to receive hers, where she had thoughtfully put little post-it notes in telling me what she thought of some of the things in the mags. It was just like having a coffee and a gossip over a magazine, but more fun because I didn't actually have to talk with my mouth full of croissant.
Maybe The Sisterhood of the Travelling Books can bring some of the best elements of book clubs to us, without us actually having to host a bookclub in our homes (or worry about talking with our mouths full of pastry).
Go on, sign up. You know you want to.
Comments
Thks Ash! We should do it again someday, I've already saved up some more magazines for you!
The bookclub sounds like a lot of fun, may be I can/should participate? (Although I have to confess we don't read much Literature (we do have a lot of thrillers though...)
Er just how many hundreds of countries...? ;)
There are 'only' 194 countries in the world :)
Still awesome idea, sounds like fun.
Ok I take that back,
Since there are:
245 entities considered to be countries (even thought they aren;t technically)...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries
Still that would allow you to swap with hundred*s* of countries. :)
(God I am a geek sometimes)
Cool idea! I might join ~ off to read more about it.
I think this is a really cool idea and I'm definitely going to join. Only problem is that all my books are in storage in the UK at the moment, and I only have one book with me which I'm currently reading. When I'm finished with it, I'll sign up to the book club, so that I can send it on and receive others. Thanks for sharing the site :)
May 30, 2007 10:11 PM