如何创办读书会--这才是需要的

如何创办读书会--这才是需要的

Peer pressure gets a bad reputation, but when it comes to filling your life with more knowledge and books, it can be a real helper. I'm talking about the purest form of peer pressure you could possibly opt into: book clubs.

同辈压力名声不好，但当它让你的生活充满更多的知识和书籍时，它可以成为一个真正的帮手。我说的是你可能选择的最纯粹的同辈压力:读书俱乐部。

Of course, not all book clubs are the same, and there are a lot of different ways to do them, so there are no hard and fast rules. But if you're wondering how to start a group that thrives, we do have some ideas.

当然，不是所有的读书会都是一样的，有很多不同的方式去做，所以没有硬性的规则。但如果你想知道如何建立一个蓬勃发展的团队，我们确实有一些想法。

I spoke to Alisha Ramos, who runs the book club for her online community and newsletter, Girls' Night In, to find out about some of the best practices that can make your book club really succeed.

我采访了艾丽莎·拉莫斯，她经营着自己的在线社区和时事通讯“女孩之夜”(Girls‘Night In)的读书俱乐部，以了解一些能让你的读书俱乐部真正成功的最佳实践。

1. Make scheduling really easy

让计划变得简单

Ramos' advice is that it's really important to make sure that scheduling is consistent and easy. "Stick to a monthly recurring schedule so that every month it's super predictable when book clubs are happening," she says.

拉莫斯的建议是，确保日程安排的一致性和简单性非常重要。她说：“坚持每月重复的时间表，这样每个月都能很好地预测读书会的举行时间。”

You can all pull out your calendars and figure out a date that works for the next book club at the end of a meeting, or if you wanted to, you could use a tool like a Doodle pollin a follow-up email that makes scheduling much, much easier. Consistency in meeting times is important in this case, too, so that the book club has momentum.

你可以在会议结束后拿出你的日历，找出下一个书友会的日期，或者如果你愿意，你可以使用涂鸦投票这样的工具，在后续的电子邮件中，让日程安排变得更加容易。在这种情况下，会议时间的一致性也很重要，这样书友会才有动力。

2. Set an intention

设立一个目标

It might seem like if you're in a book club, you're there to just read more books. But Ramos' second piece of advice is to set an intention for your book club so that everyone who attends really understands why they're there and what they're doing.

如果你参加了一个读书俱乐部，你可能只是想多读些书。但是拉莫斯的第二条建议是为你的读书俱乐部设定一个目标，这样每个参加读书俱乐部的人都能真正理解他们为什么在那里，他们在做什么。

Ask yourself: Is this about meeting new people? If so, maybe folks can bring a new person to the book club at each meeting.

问问你自己:这是为了结识新朋友吗?如果是这样的话，也许人们可以在每次会议上带一个新的人来读书俱乐部。

Or you could make the intention to expand your knowledge about a particular thing, to try a new type of book or to read more widely than you may have previously. So if you want to read more books by women of color, explore comic books or learn about the history of music in the 20th century, use the intention for your book club as an organizing principle.

或者你可以打算扩展你对特定事物的知识，尝试一种新类型的书，或者比以前阅读更广泛。因此，如果你想要阅读更多有色人种女性的书籍，探索漫画书，或者了解20世纪的音乐史，你可以将读书俱乐部的宗旨作为组织原则。

3. Pick the right book — and agree on it

选一本合适的书，然后达成一致

Picking a book that not everybody is interested in or that people aren't on board with can be a death knell for any book club. So Ramos says you need to have a strategy for picking the book and really make sure that there's consensus about how it's chosen.

挑选一本并非每个人都感兴趣或人们不喜欢的书，可能会给任何读书俱乐部敲响丧钟。因此，拉莫斯说，你需要有一个挑选书的策略，并真正确保在如何选择这本书的问题上达成共识。

And don't be afraid to pick something controversial — Ramos says that some of the books they've chosen at Girls' Night In have been pretty divisive. "It creates really great discussion because people like to do a little bit of debate," she says.

不要害怕选择一些有争议的书——拉莫斯说他们在《女孩之夜》中选择的一些书很有争议。她说:“这确实引发了很棒的讨论，因为人们喜欢做一点辩论。”

4. Provide context

(为书)提供背景

For each meeting, somebody — maybe the host or the person who suggested the book — should do some research on the book's world to set the scene.

每一次会议，都应该有人--也许是主持人或者推荐这本书的人--对这本书的世界做一些研究，以设定场景。

"I think that's a really good tip, especially if you're not loving or jibing with the book, just to gain a little bit more context from the author herself or himself about where they're coming from," Ramos says.

拉莫斯说:“我认为这是一个很好的建议，尤其是如果你不喜欢这本书，或者你不喜欢这本书，那么你可以从作者本人那里获得更多的信息，了解这些信息的来源。”

So if you're the one hosting a particular book club meeting, you can do some reading on the historical context of the book or listen to some interviews with the book's author.

所以，如果你是主持一个很特别的图书俱乐部会议的人，你可以阅读一些关于这本书的历史背景，或者听一些对这本书的作者的采访。