Do you like to read but have no place to do it? Do you like sharing different book suggestions? Try joining the Reader’s Guild club! Reading Guild is a club for students who like to read or suggest books to each other. The club is run by Mr. Cox and is held every Wednesday after school from 3 to 4. The club is for students who enjoy reading or getting ideas for a good book. 

We interviewed Mr.Cox, the club sponsor, to ask about Readers Guild to see how he feels about it. “I started this club when I got here in 2005, so that’s about 13 years. It’s something I’ve done here at Coronado and Mitchell when I taught there.”  This club has been happening at Coronado for a very long time and I personally think that if something is around for so long, it will be more likely that people will join it.

“I believe that every high school needs something that only focuses on good literature, good books and reading for kids.” Every high school needs something only about reading and books for those kids who prefer to read than watch T.V. or go on the internet, because when you’re reading, nothing else matters except for what you’re reading about. It helps kids have fun and learn at the same time. I personally think reading is fun because you can imagine what the characters look like, their personality, etc. “I’ve used a majority of my library funds to create a huge collection of great fiction and nonfiction books, We’ve spent a lot of money for these books and my job is to suggest them to kids because they aren’t doing any good just sitting there on the shelves.” If nobody ever tells anybody about these books, they just sit there on the shelf without anyone touching them and nobody ever notices them. Suggesting books to someone is a great way to get them out of their favorite genre and get into new ones.

“My favorite part about this club is probably the diversity my members bring to it. I have weakness in the reading, because I like to read fantasy. And I don’t read much teen romance, but teens will bring in a lot of it such as John Green, which I’ve read and love. I don’t know the genre very well, so it helps when they bring in some John Green book and are like ‘this book is great’ and I’ll read it and once I know the book and have read it, I can convince you to read it.”

If Mr. Cox reads the books that students are reading, than he can recommend them to other students. “It helps if you come to me with a book, and say ‘great book’, because I can add and build to my collection,” he explained. “It gives me some more suggestions and ideas for books that myself and others would be interested in reading.”

Hopefully it gets students to read different books than they are used to. “I never read teen drama much but kids would always tell me ‘you gotta read this’. When kids talk about different books to read it makes you think, ‘oh look there’s a nonfiction book that I would read,’ and then you do it. You don’t know if you like non fiction until you read it. Any kid could become a reader if they find a book they like. When you’re forced to read a book it makes it worse”.

Mr. Cox strongly suggests joining the club to anyone interested. “There’s a bunch of cool kids, always talking random cool books, great suggestions for books. Kids like to read. They appreciate reading a book as opposed to getting blasted by a TV. TVs just sit there hammering commercials. I’m violently opposed to wasting my life watching commercials”.

Readers Guild sounds like an amazing club to join! If you enjoy reading, then join the Readers Guild club today!

Remember, Read to live, Live to read.