"Divergent" {by Veronica Roth} Couples Book Club Ideas

AUGUST COUPLES BOOK CLUB:

For this month's book we picked Veronica Roth's new dystopian book, "Divergent" which is an action packed page turner from start to finish. (At least, that's what I thought about it but I'm excited to see our official book club review of the book will say!)
Having the guys join our meeting this month made for some really interesting discussions and I think most of us walked away feeling like we really got into the "nitty gritty" of Roth's writing and the world of Divergent.

PART I:

TRANSITIONING FROM "STIFF" TO DAUNTLESS

Kellie Hall was the moderator for this book and she really went above and beyond to make it special!
Right when we walked into her house she had this great faction ceremony table set up complete with different Divergent tattoos we could pick from to wear!

YES, I AM DAUNTLESS ENOUGH, ARE YOU?

Do you like my Tris inspired tattoo?
Check out Eric's AWESOME Erudite tatt!

PART II:
LET'S EAT!

Here's part of the group eating our delicious dinner of Hamburgers with ALL the accompanying sides. (Thanks again to everyone who helped by bringing food.)

(If you've read Divergent you'll understand why we picked hamburgers as our main dish!)
*Sorry there aren't any food pictures, I completely forgot to snap a couple in all the commotion!

Here are some more lovely book clubbers enjoying their meal and delightful conversation.
{Bryce+Mandi}                                           {Eliza+Jude}

Some of my favorite girls...
{Kitch, Bethany, Elisabeth and me}

Owwww, owwww....look at this watering hole of handsome men!

Thanks to all the guys for supporting your girls and book club by coming to our meeting, we LOVED having you and hope to see you again at our next couples book club in 2012!
(Mistborn is going to make a great book club!)

Here's a group shot of all the lovely ladies!
*I think our boys are pretty lucky...we are a bunch of cuties! ;)

PART III

THE DISCUSSION:

Kellie started off the night with a TOUGH quiz that sent every ones minds to work!

(I thought I knew the book pretty well but that quiz was brutal!)

There were three winners:

Eric was the big first place winner with 42 points (if I remember correctly) which was a GREAT score considering how tough Kellie's quiz was!

He won a basket of goodies along with a special leather bound edition of The Interview with the Vampire Chronicles, just in time for Halloween!

Karen won second place landing her a basket of goodies along with next years couples book club book, 'Mistborn."
Lucky Shalease took home the third place prize winning yet again! Shalease always does her homework before she comes to book club and apparently it pays off! ;)

 

Here's a few things from the book we discussed:

-We talked that Veronica Roth has sold the rights for Divergent to become a movie to Summit Entertainment and its in the early stages of development already!

DIVERGENT DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:

-Why do you think that the Factions can’t seem to get along? Do you they have wondered too far from their manifestos?

-Could you choose as Tris did to leave your Family to join another Faction that you are more suited for?

-Which Faction would you choose and is it the same as the Faction you got on your Aptitude Test?

-What did you think of Tris and Four's relationship? What did you like about it or what bothered you?

-We talked about Tris's fears, the fear landscape before asking the group, "What do you think your fears would be?"

-What do you think of the world that Divergent is set in, does it seem believable to you?

- On Pg 128 of Divergent we find out that there is a lock on the outside of the fence that's being guarded. Why is the lock on the outside and why are they keeping everyone locked in?

-There are a lot of characters that die in this book, did it bother you or just add to the story?

-What do you think happened to the society for them to be where they are now? How did it all begin?

PART IV

THE TAKE HOME:

Kellie and I worked together creating these themed take home bags for each couple to remember the evening.

Inside each bag was:

1. Veronica Roth's 'official' Divergent playlist (LOVE!)

2. Some more faction tattoos (which I may have put on the next day)

3. Three origami crows (symbolic of overcoming our own fears)

4. And, a large syringe full of orange liquid in case anyone wanted to try out their own fear landscape! (No thanks.)

Here's a picture of the cover I created for the playlist.

THANK YOU SO MUCH KELLIE FOR HOSTING OUR FABULOUS COUPLES BOOK CLUB!!
You are the BEST book club VP anyone could ever ask for! ;)
XoXo, Kelly

All of the printables and PowerPoint we used from our Divergent book club can be found HERE

If you would like a copy of the entire faction manifesto that I spent hours creating just for YOU then you can find that HERE