What’s the best way to get closer to a celebrity? Find if they own a book club!
The combination of a celebrity and books, popularized by the amazing Oprah, has taken various forms - like celeb podcasts, vlogs, Facebook groups, etc. Some simply post on social networks like Instagram/LinkedIn/Twitter about their current reads and recommendations.
What an honour it must be for a newbie author to have their books recommended by these stars, as it certainly adds to the buzz around the book. Let us know your favourite celebrity book club in comments. If you haven’t joined yet, we have helped you by dedicating this newsletter to explore this part of the reading culture.
BioScope Thursdays
Every Thursday, 9 PM, we will be screening some interesting short films/videos/talks across the world, especially book adapted ones. This is followed by an intellectual discussion on 3 points from the video.
We will be screening a TED Talk - The surprising science of happiness by Dan Gilbert
Dan Gilbert, author of "Stumbling on Happiness," challenges the idea that we'll be miserable if we don't get what we want. Our "psychological immune system" lets us feel truly happy even when things don't go as planned.
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Our campus ambassador program has started off and we have amazing sessions planned by the young blood in the field of technology, Sci-Fi, public speaking, etc!
Check out the upcoming sessions in ‘Find a Room’ tab.
Message us on Instagram or email hello@merrative.com if you would like to:
- discuss any book, article, film, web series
- host an interview with bookstores or authors
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We have declared the winners for our #readeroftheyear contest - Nazarin, Divyangi and Agnes have shared some genuine and brilliant book recommendations that you would like to pick up!
They win Amazon vouchers worth INR 500 - thank you, everyone, for participating and happy reading!
Books:
Check out winner profiles of Nazarin, Agnes and Divyangi for their recommended reads!
Articles:
- Stanford prison experiment - by Pups
- The weird world of LinkedIn - by Harshala
- The Sinulog Festival in Cebu, Philippines - by Vinn
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Elizabeth writes an article on - Top celebrity book clubs you need to join right now!
Here’s Elizabeth covering for us some of the amazing bookclubs started by bookish celebrities. Includes Oprah (of course), Emma Watson, Jimmy Fallon and Instagram star with group joining links. If you have suggestions, do let us know, we will add them!
If you have a general opinion on what you read or if topics like reading, writing and productivity interest you, then do contribute to our blog as a guest writer. Reply back to this mail for more details.
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Here’s a celebrity having her own celebrity book club with celebrities as guests dissecting an autobiography/memoirs/biography every week. Chelsea Devantez (writer, comedian, and filmmaker) believes that the memoirs they discuss are not only wildly entertaining and salacious, but there’s something to learn from them, too.
Click here to check out her podcast episodes
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Oh yes, if you did not know already, YouTube has its own BookTube series (duh with the name)! It has popular YouTube stars having a gala time with some of the most brilliant authors on this planet. Dive deeper into books with this star-studded booktube, we have tagged the complete list!
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