Welby Neighborhood Book Club Bylaws
General
Information
1.
Book reviews will generally be held the third week of
each month on a Wednesday evening at 7:00 p.m.
2.
Book reviews may be held at a location specified by the
hostess for the month. Consider home, church, library, out-of-doors, parks,
etc.
3.
There will be one business meeting each year to elect a
new book club specialist and to finalize the Book Club Wish List for the coming
year. At this meeting sisters will sign up for the month and the book they
would like to host.
4.
Books need to be returned to the library prior to the
due date (if you would like more time with the book, call the hostess and ask
her if she will renew the book for you. This is usually possible if the book is
not a New Release). If you keep a book past its due date, please take the book
to the library clerk at the front desk at the Bingham Creek Library to pay the
fine on your book. Lost books will also need to be paid for out of your own
expense account.
5.
Attendees do not necessarily need to have completed the
book being reviewed in order to attend Book Club and participate in the
discussion.
6.
All sisters in the ward and neighborhood are invited to
attend and may invite guests from time to time as desired.
7.
Books to be reviewed during the current year will have
been previously selected by those who frequently attend book review. Books to
be reviewed will have a G or a PG rating.
Our literature does not have a rating system so we will refer to the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) ratings and replace the words referring to film with the word "book". Here are the definitions of G and PG ratings:
ReplyDeleteG – General Audiences. All ages admitted.
Contains nothing in theme, language, nudity, sex, violence or other matters that would offend parents whose younger children read the material. Some snippets of conversation may go beyond polite conversation but they are common everyday expressions. No stronger words are present in G-rated books. Violence is minimal. No nudity, sex scenes or drug use are present in the book.
PG – Parental Guidance Suggested. Some material may not be suitable for children.
A PG book should be investigated by parents before they let their younger children read the book. The PG rating indicates that parents may consider some material unsuitable for their children, and parents should make that decision. The more mature themes in some PG-rated books may call for parental guidance. There may be some profanity and some depictions of violence or brief nudity. But these elements are not deemed so intense as to require that parents be strongly cautioned beyond the suggestion of parental guidance. There is no drug use content in a PG-rated book.