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In The Club

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READING A BOOK A WEEK is nothing unusual for the members of the Girly Book Club. With more than 100,000 members worldwide, the Torontoborn group is the largest network of book clubs hosting in-person meetings in the world. While the club votes monthly for one title that every member will read (the March pick was Christina Dalcher’s dystopian scifi novel Vox), members often share their favourites beyond these official GBC picks. “It’s like microinfluencing,” says GBC founder Erin Woodward.

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