Book Club Challenge Issued By XXXXXX in Milwaukee, WI (Our Book Club Name?)
Dear Fellow Book Club Members,
Why do you read? Why do you belong to a book cub?
For us, it encourages us to read books we would otherwise ignore. It stretches our world to explore other cultures. It opens us to ideas we may not have discovered on our own. It allows us to enjoy the company of friends who share the importance and impact of the written word.
Imagine your life without books.
Imagine a community where girls are not afforded educational opportunities.
Imagine how the world might change if we all help to change these inequities.
We recently read the national bestseller Half The Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas Kristoff and Sheryl WuDunn. It made a huge impression on us. So we offer a challenge to your book club.
Read and discuss Half The Sky at one of your book club meetings in 2013.
Donate to one of the organizations highlighted in the book or to a non-profit in your community that targets support for girls/women.
E-mail us to let us know you read the book and how it affected your club’s members. Tell us if you made a donation and which organization you chose. We would like to keep records and share them with the authors in 2014. (We will not share any personal information - just statistics detailing the results of this challenge!)
Pass this letter on to other book clubs and to anyone you know who loves to read.
We are dropping a pebble in a pond…watching the ripples move outward, reaching the farthest corners of the pond. With today’s social inter-connectedness we are hopeful about how far this will reach and how much good it will generate.
Educate a woman….Change a neighborhood…. Strengthen a community…. Build a better world!
Please join us and actively demonstrate the power of women and the influence of the book club!
Sincerely
Eileen Olen
Linn Woodard
Milwaukee Book Club Members
email: bookclubpower@gmail.com
blog: bookclubpower@blogspot.com
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