AWU Bookgroup

Why join the bookgroup?

                   You can get more out of your reading.
                   You can make new friends.
                   Stretch your horizons.
                   Have fun!

We meet up for a chat about what books we are reading, there is a message board in the forum for you to to leave messages about what books you're all reading, leaving some recommendations for the rest of us.

Some books will have a profound effect on us and some will be less enjoyable, the point of the group is to meet like minded bookworms who may inspire you to pick up a book that you may never of heard of before. To expand our minds and meet new friends along the way. It can include fictional
books and non fictional books, what ever you want! If you've read a great book (or a terrible book) and want to let us all know about it, let us know by accessing the Bookgroup message board and leave a message telling us all about it or come along to the next bookgroup chat session.

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Balance your books!!

We all like to see books printed on recycled paper, or at least FSC-approved paper. But unfortunately, many of the books that we read are printed on paper that comes from less than sustainable sources. In fact, over 20-million trees are cut down annually to make virgin paper for books printed in the US alone. Now there is a way for you to balance out the damage caused to forests by the books that you read. Eco-Libris has partnered with Sustainable Harvest International, Ripple Africa
and The Alliance for International Reforestation, to plant trees
to replace those cut down to print the books that you read.
The process of balancing your books is very simple. On the
Eco-Libris homepage
select the number of books you want to balance, then pay
online, and you will receive a little sticker for each book
that you’ve balanced saying “One Tree Planted for this Book.”
You can display this sticker on the book cover of the book you’ve
balanced. While it’s not the solution to the problem, planting trees
does help reduce climate change and conserve soil and water in
areas where deforestation is a real problem.