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Book Club Kit: Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams

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I loved Queenie when I read it in 2020 - with themes including mental health, MeToo, and Black Lives Matter, it offers a lot for thoughtful discussion. This Book Club Kit provides more to draw from during your next bookish meetup. It features an illuminating interview with the author, Candice Carty-Williams, as well as 14 profound discussion questions. For some literary and social fun, this kit also includes printable bookmarks, a recipe for a Jamaican Bun (which I will be making right away), a recipe for a Prosecco cocktail, and a great playlist of songs Queenie herself would love. There's a fun "Which Corgi Are You?" quiz (I'm a Darcy), and reading recommendations for books similar to Queenie. The kit ends with valuable resources for readers who have gone through anything like Queenie does in the book. This is an excellent addition to Queenie, whether you're in a book club or not.

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I appreciate some thought provoking questions and additional information from the author about Queenie. I liked this book, but it definitely started out slower for me.

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This is a really fun resource for a book group. I loved the recipes, suggested playlists and the quiz, as well as finding the author interview an insightful way of sharing discussion points about the book. It also has enabled me to consider my own thoughts about the book, something I will enjoy sharing when discussing the book with store customers.

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Good book club kit, I don't have much more to comment on this as I mis-read the description and I thought the book was included

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This will be one of the next books of my book club so I'm grateful for this kit.
Already loved the playlist, recipe and I'm super excited to take the quiz soon :)
Also, very nice to see the support resource infos.

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As someone who has tried and failed to create or be apart of MANY book clubs, I absolutely love this kit! This book is one of my top books on my TBR along with a few friends, after showing this to them we have decided to read and discuss together and use this kit to guide us! And all the extra goodies are so cool! I really loved the couple little quizzes for the book club to do and the food recipe. Cannot wait to make it

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Absolutely LOVED this book so getting this book club kit was a no brainer for me! My friends and I loved this! Had a great interview with author, bookmarks, discussion questions, a fun quiz and even books recommended for us to read next. Great way to kick start this book in your book club and get the group engaged! Absolutely loved it all and we had so much fun discussing this book then doing the quiz afterwards! A must have for any book club! Your friends will love it!

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I thoroughly enjoyed reading Queenie a month ago, and this book club kit certainly helps me process my feelings towards the book more. The kit includes an author interview, discussion guide, book marks, fun recipes inspired by the book, a playlist, quiz, and book recs based on the book. I wish kits like this would come with every book purchase!

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I absolutely loved the book Queenie. If you haven't read Queenie I highly recommend that you do.

What is Queenie about?
In the book Queenie we meet Queenie Jenkins who is a 25 year old Jamaican British woman who is living in London. Queenie works at a national newspaper and struggles to straddle the two cultures of her heritage as she doesn't feel that she fits into either and really wants to find a place where she belongs and a place where she can be the true authentic Queenie. Not only that but working at the newspaper makes her compare herself to the white middle class peers that she has to work with and write about. After a break up with her long term boyfriend Queenie seeks comfort in all of the wrong places. Getting herself involved with really comfortable situation and really terrible relationships who continuously keep putting her down and making her question her self worth and let me tell you Queenie really is a true Queen and she deserves so much better. The book makes you think about your own self worth. The self worth about the people around you and letting you know that you deserve to be treated with respect and treated like the queen you truly are.

If you haven't read this book which I really do recommend that you do. Why not read it as part of a reading group. Not part of a reading group. Me neither. But I like to read my books along side a few of my friends and then we can stop and talk about the book as we go along which is really fun.

This book really help you with your discussions in book clubs. It has a great interview with the author. Questions to ask about how you feel about the book, some beautiful bookmarks which you can use while reading this book, recipes for Jamaican Easter spiced buns and pomegranate orange prosecco cocktails which you can have at your book club meeting, an awesome playlist, which has some really awesome artists and songs on it, a fun which Queenie are you quizz, some resources that are helpful if you have been effected by anything that has happened in the book and suggestions on what to read now that this book is finished.

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Another excellent book club resource. I loved the corgi quiz! Such a fun addition and also the suggestion of songs to listen to during your book club meeting were wonderful.

I felt like there were more discussion points in this one which I appreciated and I found the q&a with the author fascinating, especially from a book that deals with such serious themes as Queenie.

All in all, another excellent kit!

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Feels so refreshing reading the author's notes on her book. Very much appreciated. Now I'm going to go and read Queenie again.

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These book club kits are really great resources. As someone who runs a book club with other adults and hopes to start one in her school district, it's nice to have some options and to have things already made to help me set things up. The extra materials are well crafted, and I think they add a special touch.

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I already loved queenie. And I loved this. I think queenie is out book of the month for my book clubs. So I will probably be using this soon :)

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This is a great Book Club Kit! It includes an interview, fun activities, and more. It truly enhances the reading experience and I recommend it for people and book clubs reading Queenie.

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