Its Summer – Time for Book Club! A Guest Post from Julia Thomas We welcome Julia Thomas, author of THE ENGLISH BOYS and her latest release PENHALE WOOD, to Midnight Inks blog today! Julia shares the beauty of book clubs, especially during these sweltering summer months. Like a lot of authors, I not only write, I love to read, too. Several years ago, long before I finished my first book, I started a book club with several friends at work. I didnt know any of them particularly well, but over time, weve bonded in special ways, discovering books that have made us laugh, cry, and grow along the way. Its morphed into something very different from our first formal book club, where we sat rigidly in a circle of chairs and discussed Julie and Julia by Julie Powell, taking turns as we went around the circle to contribute one polite thought about the book club guide questions asked. That group of women is unrecognizable from the group of friends who gather in each others kitchens today, pouring