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Book Club Kit: The Midnight Library

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I received this book from netgalley for an honest review

Omg wow! No wonder everyone keeps talking about it. The world building and characters are flawless.

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This is a book club kit and is perfect as my book club is discussing this book this week! There are 8 questions that are designed to prompt discussion based on the book and then a short Q&A with the author to provide more insight as to his writing process and creation of this book.

I enjoyed the author Q&A (for example, he was going to make the main character male?!) and I think the questions provided are great (although I would have loved to seen the author's answers)!

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The Midnight Library has been on everyone's to-read lists lately, and has been a pretty popular book club pick. This book club kit includes discussion questions and an interview with the author, Matt Haig.

I hoped that this kit would give me different insight into this book, which I found difficult to talk about. The discussion questions included here are mostly personal or philosophical in nature rather than about the novel itself. I could see this kit working well for a book club with people who are comfortable with each other, but wouldn't necessarily recommend it for groups that don't know each other well enough to be vulnerable.

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@Thanks NetGalley for this guide to this great book. It was a wonderful experience.
I give 5 stars to this guide

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This is just a comprehensive kit for book clubs. I was under the impression it was the actual book. I’m a little disappointed because I didn’t read the book so I can not use these kit.

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When my book club decided to read this title, I had heard nothing specific about it, but everyone was telling me that it was a "must read." This book club kit was a great addition to the evening. The questions are thought provoking and in depth, and they touch on more than the superficial aspects of the book. I really enjoyed the information about the author, as well. I recommend this kit to anyone hosting a conversation about this book.

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Great discussion questions to promote thoughtful discussion about the book. I like how there were questions and an author interview.

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Thank you for the opportunity to review this book club kit. I just reviewed a similar kit for Mexican Gothic, another very popular release. And actually, I just finished The Midnight Library last night, so it's fresh in my mind. I think that these kits are really neat! I particularly like the layouts and inclusions of extras with the questions.

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The Book Club Kit is exactly that - a brief guide including great discussion questions and extremely interesting interview with the author. I'm looking forward to using this for our book club!

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I mistakenly thought this was the actual book, The Midnight Library. But lucky for me, The Midnight Library is my book club pick for May. The kit contains eight questions, photo printables, and a Q and A for author Matt Haig. The questions will be great discussion topics for the cub.
I can't wait for May to come around so I can start The Midnight Library and put this kit to use!
This kit could also be used to discuss the book in a smaller group or among a few friends who have read the book.
Many thanks to Penguin Random House Library resources, Matt Haig, and Netgalley for an arc of this kit in exchange for an honest review!

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I absolutely adored the novel “The Midnight Library”. Five Stars!! But this Book Club Kit is unfortunately lacking.

There are 8 questions in the Kit and a small Q&A with the author Matt Haig. The interview with Haig was good and actually brought up some ideas for good discussions at a book club. The questions for the book club were all too personal. “What do you think your?... Your life?... You feel?... Do we learn?... About our lives?” These are not questions I would ask at any of my book clubs. Maybe if I wanted to discuss this with a close friend?

There were no questions in this Kit that I see would bring about good discussion regarding the writing, the characters, the plot... you get the idea.

It doesn’t hurt to have this, but thinking up your own questions and looking around the internet are going to get you a lot further.

Thanks Penguin Random House Library Resources and NetGalley for an ARC copy of this kit in exchange for my honest review.

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Short but engaging book club guide. Only one page of discussion questions (although they were good) and three pages of an author interview; I would have liked to have seen more discussion content. But it was interesting enough that it got me to buy the book, however, so I think it did its job!

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Love the Book Club kit found it very useful and easy to use. This is a great addition to the actual book and you get to understand and dissect the book more. I really enjoyed this book it and highly recommend to those who are fans of the book.n

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I really enjoyed this book club kit. It helped my dig into this lovely book better. The kit comes with 8 questions about the book for book clubs to discuss as well as a couple pages of interview questions with the author Matt Haig, which I loved so much.

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This book was an easy 5 star read for me and a book I constantly recommend. I enjoyed reading book club questions and also some q&a with the author.

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Thank you for sending me the Book Club Kit for The Midnight Library by Matt Haig.

Overall I found this to be a very useful Book Club Kit. I recommend it as inspiration for post-reading discussion.
5 stars

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In the book club guide to How to Stop Time, I really appreciated the interview with the author. The suggested questions to guide a book club discussion were fantastic. This would be useful for my book club and would benefit others when sharing thoughts on this beautiful book.

I received a copy of this book club guide via NetGalley which did not affect the contents of my review. All opinions are honest and my own.

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This Penguin Random House Book Club Kit is such a great idea. It's short and concise, spicing up your book club meeting without making a literal plan or taking up your entire time as a group.

This kit consists of:
- a list of inventive, poignant questions; I love how thought provoking and open they are, welcoming many different points of view in your group - although in the advance reader's copy they are nearly unreadable in yellow.
- an interview with the author.

I loved these two sections, but I thought it was much shorter than other book club kits from this Publisher. I would have liked another creative section - say recipes, a playlist, DIY, etc.

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We are reading The Midnight Library in my book club this months so I was super excited to find this book club kit here. This is a super helpful tool to dive deeper into discussing this book!

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This book club kit could be useful for many book clubs. It made me want to read the book even more. Good discussion questions.

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