The book club has already startet.
You can find the discussion here.
Application deadline: Tuesday, 07/05/23
Duration: 3 weeks: 14/05-05/06/24
Win 1 of 20 reading copies
✨ In dieser Leserunde wird der Roman in der Originalsprache Englisch gelesen und die Diskussionsrunde im Book Circle findet in englischer Sprache statt.
The book you need to read this spring: It’s a shimmering and joyful novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common. Stranded in Waning Bay, Michigan, Daphne ends up rooming with Miles, the ex-boyfriend of Petra, who is now dating Daphnes’ ex-boyfriend. Despite their differences, they form an unlikely friendship and concoct a plan involving misleading photos of their adventures.
For this book club we’re giving away 20 free reading copies of the novel, in cooperation with Penguin Random House. As a special, we are giving away “Funny Story” branded merchandise: 10 tote bags and 10 t-shirts among all participants!
How to participate 🌠
You’d like to read along and discuss the novel with other readers? Fill in this form and enter your postal address to apply for the book club to win one of the 20 free copies. By confirming the completed form you’re automatically in the run for a space in the book club.
How the book club works 📖
The number of participants is limited to 20 people. Participants will be selected at random. After the application deadline, the winners will be announced in a comment in this thread and will receive an email with further information.
All confirmed participants will receive a free copy of Funny Story. We’ll read and discuss the novel together. The exchange will take place in writing, in this forum discussion thread. After completing the book, all participants will write their personal review of the book here in the community.
Conditions of participation ✏
Residence and valid postal address in Switzerland.
Time to read the book during the specified period and to actively participate in the discussion, in English.
Writing a personal review of the book at the end of the reading group on bookcircle.ch.
Agreement that the feedback from readers and the reading group will be shared with the publisher and may be used by the publisher for advertising purposes.
More about the book 📖
About the author
Emily Henry is the #1 New York Times and #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Happy Place, Book Lovers and Beach Read. She lives and writes in the American Midwest.