By now most of you know that we here at Fic Fare & Swoony Boys Podcast spent the last week together at BEA.  One thing that always happens when we’re together,  whether we’re talking via email or skype or in person, is thinking of ways to do things better and ways to get more people involved in our love of books.Â
This post is just to let you know about some of the things that we talked about and the changes you will see coming in the near future!Â
Spotlight Sunday – This was something we started because we were hoping to foster a bit more conversation on the blog with everyone… unfortunately that really hasn’t been the case 🙂 Basically we sort of felt like we were talking to ourselves, and to be perfectly honest, we all do that a lot already. Â
So, for right now, Spotlight Sunday is being shelved as a regular feature, but may make some random appearances as we find there are things we want to talk with you all about. Â
NOW – that doesn’t mean we don’t want to hear from you all… in fact, we are hoping you’ll let us know what you want to talk about in the future!!Â
Readalongs –  I know we already do a monthly read-along, but lately we haven’t really had much participation and with summer around the corner, we know everyone is busy so during our brainstorming we thought ‘What if we do it more like a book-club’.Â
What does that mean?  Well, starting after our June Read-along of If I Stay, we are thinking that we will give everyone a month to read a specific book and then we’ll pick a date (one day) where we’ll be on twitter/facebook discussing, talking about our favorite parts and favorite quotes and we’ll probably even have some trivia and prizes as well as our usual giveaway! We will designate a hashtag so everyone can follow along and this way, we’re hoping to encourage more participation with less commitment of  time.  You can read at whatever pace you like (hopefully 30 days is enough time to get the book choice read) and not be stressed that you may not be keeping up with those who read faster.
So… what do you think? Does this sound like something you’d be interested in participating in instead of a monthly official read-along? Â If so, make sure you join our Goodreads Group so that you don’t miss details and dates!Â
I’m also including a link to a form if you have any book suggestions and we’ll try and get things rolling on this soon! #virtualbookclub
I’m also including a link to a form if you have any book suggestions and we’ll try and get things rolling on this soon! #virtualbookclub
Recommend Us A Book!!Â
So we also want to take a moment to announce what our first Virtual Book Club Read will be….
So we also want to take a moment to announce what our first Virtual Book Club Read will be….
Two misfits.
One extraordinary love.
One extraordinary love.
Eleanor
… Red hair, wrong clothes. Standing behind him until he turns his head. Lying beside him until he wakes up. Making everyone else seem drabber and flatter and never good enough…Eleanor.Park… He knows she’ll love a song before he plays it for her. He laughs at her jokes before she ever gets to the punch line. There’s a place on his chest, just below his throat, that makes her want to keep promises…Park.
Set over the course of one school year, this is the story of two star-crossed sixteen-year-olds—smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try.
You can grab your own Book Club image to post on your blog here! 
So… Let us know your thoughts on all these changes! Will you be joining us for book club? We hope so!! Leave us some comments!Â
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