When I ran my second book club conference in November, both participants confessed that they hadn’t finished the complete text – Sugarbread, by Taiwanese author Balli Kaur Jaswal. Perhaps so, they explicitly shared their personal opinions on key issues in the book, such as family and connections.
One participant expressed a desire to consume more local media in a variety of forms and how the option of a Singaporean guide had forced her to reflect on her own Western-centric use of the arts and media.  ,
In a text team, the essential goal shouldn’t be to accomplish a specific number of pages, but to participate in discussions about what’s on those pages. Reading no longer turns into a matter of meeting another date, but rather our own purposeful efforts to get involved with the text.  ,
Removing the guilt or shame of “failure” or “disappointment” from reading in this way helps to make reading significantly less threatening – or at least less of a task, especially for new visitors.
” MY ENGLISH NOT GOOD ENOUGH”
I’ve heard many of my own students say this in a variety of ways:” My English isn’t good enough to talk about books” . ,
In a nation built on democracy, there’s someone of a Taiwanese mentality that we must get not only good enough, but better than everyone at most things. How many of us feel secure enough to raise our arms in a group or a meeting and say, frankly and plainly,” I don’t know”?  ,
But checking isn’t about getting it “right”. In reality, if a text seems complicated, it might not even be a reader problem. Some writers purposefully write in confusing ways for imaginative intellectual purposes.  ,
Also us English teachers aren’t immune. A famous Chilean author’s book Gabriel Garca Márquez was given to us in a writing group earlier this year. I read it and didn’t understand anything at all. I began to doubt my abilities and abilities as an educator when fake illness emerged, and to my comfort, my classmates revealed that they too had struggled with the passage.  ,
Book leagues aren’t just for those who now adore Tolstoy and Orwell. In book clubs, discussions facilitated by book clubs are a good way to aid those who are less fluent in their speech and intellectual comprehension abilities in navigating their confusion and figuring out why a publication isn’t working out.
And it’s entirely possible for any reader, freshman or former, to fight with a guide and yet, by talking about it with others, understand something important about our role as readers. For instance, we could leave a bad book with new inspiration and inspiration to read and tell more compelling stories that speak to us more clearly and persuasively.