Book Club Fun for Everyone

Written by CAROLINE NICHOLSON

In Da (Book) Club

Hillary Moore Christy is a founding member of a book club uniquely named “Da Book Club” often referred to as just DBC.

She says the 12 members all met and got together about eight years ago. “We meet every other month and talk about a book," she says. "It’s just intentional friendship and camaraderie and community; that was our goal from the beginning. We met all different ways. Some of us met through work and some of us came from church..”

The members all take turns hosting the group. But when it comes to picking out which book to read, DBC has a unique way.

“We wanted to encourage each other to read different genres and different things. So, we have a jar where we put strips of paper with our recommendations on what the next month’s book should be,” says Christy. “At the end of each meeting, we draw our next book out of the jar.”

This means that as a group, the DBC has read a wide variety of books, many of which they never would have read or even heard of if it wasn’t for the book club.

What started as a way for them to build friendships and bond over their shared love of books has grown beyond any of their wildest dreams. The group now takes annual vacations together.

This tradition started about five years ago; they’ve been to the mountains, to Savannah, and to the beach. These trips are ways for them to bond with one another, but it’s also a time to get away from the responsibilities of everyday life.

“It’s fun, and there are lots of secrets to share,” Christy confesses. “We cry a lot, but we laugh a whole lot more.”

ReSisters Book Club

In 2019, fueled by a desire to discuss her favorite thing, books, with some of her favorite people, Katie Kinney Anderson started the ReSisters Book Club. In the beginning, the book club started as a way to explore books focused mainly on women and the issues they face. Since then, the group’s reads have evolved, but their purpose remains the same.

Anderson answered the following questions about the ReSisters Book Club:

Q: How would you describe the club and its members?

A: It's a big group of friends that started talking about books and decided to make it official and create a book club. All of the members are really into reading and committed to talking about what they read and sharing their thoughts.

Q: What type of books does the ReSisters Book Club read?

A: We started with books that had women as the primary characters and that focused on issues women face, but since then we have branched out into all different genres. Now, we just read whatever is

A Mutually Beneficial Relationship

With so many book clubs in the Coweta area, a mutually beneficial relationship has formed between the clubs and the local bookstores.

Theresa Decker, the owner of Senoia’s Book Love, started a book club at her shop this year called the Explore the Genres Book Club. She started this club because she says every bookshop should have a book club. But beyond having its own book club, the shop also hosts book clubs and offers a discount to all clubs that register through the shop.

Owner of the Newnan Book Company, Laura Meredith also started a book club while opening her