What I Learned by Coordinating Suri Membaca
Bismillah, Since last October, I have been coordinating a monthly book circle for women. Suri Membaca is actually an advocating movement to encourage more women to read even after their university years, being a career women or as a housewife. This movement is started earlier last year in Klang Valley areas by Kak Nurul Suhadah Shuib and team. Definitely, this is a teamwork effort since it is impossible to run a book circle only by myself. Luckily I met Kak Kamariyah, another booklover staying in Perlis. So we met and discussed about books and also how to run our first book circle in the northern states! 1) It is 'kind of' easy to start a venture, but more challenging to sustain Our first ever book circle was held at Blackwood Arau and we got 7 attendees who shared books of many wonderful genres. Even Maisarah came down all the way from Penang. Since it was the first time we ever gathered, the choleric-melancholic side of me imagined every possible o...