God love Emma Watson. Is there any limit to the number of excellent things she can do?
Her latest venture aims to help you out with that new year's resolution to 'read more' by starting a feminist book club for her and her Twitter followers.
She announced the idea on Wednesday before asking for submissions for names. She was a bit stuck you see, having only 'Emma Watson Book Club' and 'Feminist Book Club' off the top of her own head.
Her followers responded in their droves and eventually, yesterday, she decided on @EmilyFabb's suggestion of 'Our Shared Shelf'. (If you want proof that Emma's followers are just as excellent as Emma herself, Emily is an excellent example; she used all the page views her Twitter profile was getting to encourage people to donate money to the UN Refugee Agency's Winter Appeal).
And, even better - the first book Emma's chosen? None other than feminist tome for 2015, Gloria Steinham's *My Life On The Road *all about her worldly travels from being carted across the States on road trips with her father when she was young to her social activism in India. Our brilliant books writer Alex Heminsley described the book as 'atmospheric, inspiring, and warm hearted.'
According to Emma, the plan for the book club is to choose a book at the beginning of every month then 'discuss the work during the month’s last week (to give everyone time to read it!). I will post some questions/quotes to get things started, but I would love for this to grow into an open discussion with and between you all. Whenever possible I hope to have the author, or another prominent voice on the subject, join the conversation.'
So erm, what are you waiting for? Purchase a copy here and follow Emma Watson on Twitter to join in the discussion during the last week of January.
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.