{"id":414,"date":"2018-01-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/china.chinaacheru.com\/wp\/2018\/01\/07\/what-on-earth-is-a-book-reading-party\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T14:29:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T14:29:20","slug":"what-on-earth-is-a-book-reading-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinaacheru.com\/staging\/what-on-earth-is-a-book-reading-party\/","title":{"rendered":"What on earth is a book reading party?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t<\/span>\"Picture\"<\/a>Lisetta Woluchem and the author, Stanley Jack<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n


By Lisetta Woluchem (Chinaacheru.com)<\/strong>
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No experience is ever wasted. An experience, once gotten goes a long way sometime in future.
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I’m what you’ll call a collector, but while most people collect antiques, I collect books. I’m interested in anything that’s not my text book. I can stay awake all night reading a novel. I’m studious like that.\u00a0
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One day, I went to see a friend, who’s also an ardent and vast reader, and he gave me some books, amongst which was Good To Go.<\/em><\/strong>
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Good to Go <\/em><\/strong>is a book written by a certain, Stanley Jack. I had never heard of him before that day, but it was a book so I thought I would give it a shot.
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I flipped through a few pages, had a faint idea of what the book was all about, but decided to keep it until I’d read a couple from my already long pile of unread books.
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But on July 22nd, I got a call from this person asking that I go attend a book reading party the next day.
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What on is a book reading party?<\/strong>
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A book reading party? What in God’s name was that? I had never heard of it, talk more of attending one.
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I went to see him, and he gave me a brief rundown of what to expect at a book party with some advice that I read a thing or two from the book.
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Even though every fibre of my being wanted me to scream NO! I didn’t because I wanted to attend and see what it was like.
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First of all, I viewed it as an opportunity, and then an experience.
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I also didn’t have any reasonable thing to do on Saturday, so what the hell, right?
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Attending the book reading party
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The book party was slated for noon and being one with an illness of late coming, I had to go with a friend that was supposed to ‘keep me in check’.
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We did everything on time, but thanks to traffic, we got to Bookville by Mummy B road, in Port Harcourt, the venue of the event at ten minutes past noon.
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Bookville is a bookshop, so you can imagine my surprise when I got there and saw about thirty chairs with some already occupied.
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I didn’t say a word, I wrote my name in a register and took my seat.
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We waited until 1pm, and finally this ‘party’ started.
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As with almost every gathering in Nigeria, it started with an opening prayer, and guests were introduced.
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I heard I was coming for a book reading party and a lot of pictures went through my mind.
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In my mind’s eye there was going to be a DJ, perhaps dancers and all that. The only imagination I got right was the presence of an MC and a comedian.
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The editor of the book, Stanley Jack was called upon to give a brief summary of the book.
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The comedian took to the stage and cracked people up a bit. After all it is said that all work and no play….
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The author was then introduced and called upon to introduce his book.
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After that, it was time for contributions and questions.
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My reading the book actually paid off because I had a couple of questions to ask, and I also had the privilege of having the author himself answer my questions.
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I felt important to be in such an educative gathering. In all my imaginations, never had I thought that I’ll get to view a book from the eyes of the author!
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A guest in the gathering made a few contributions, and I couldn’t agree more that Good To Go<\/em><\/strong> is a book everybody must read.
It gives you a better view of everything and life in general. It broadens your knowledge of education and throws better light to the ever increasing hype of going to school.
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Time up! All due protocols had been observed, and the closing prayer had been said. It was time for autographs.
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I have tons of books, but none that’s been autographed by the author himself.
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I still can’t decipher why it’s called a book reading party, but whatever the reason might be, there’s actually a need for it.
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Maybe, the fact that there was a comedian cracking people up, or the fact that there was small chops and drinks. I really do not know.
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However, I know I achieved a lot on Saturday, July 23, 2016.
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Apart from having my book signed by an actual author, or getting to view a book from the eyes of the writer, it actually felt good to be in a gathering of intellectuals.
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After attending the book reading party, I got to learn anew that an experience is actually a tool to help one through life.<\/font><\/div>\n
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