This Penguin Random House Book Club Kit is such a great idea. However, this one was just too short in my opinion.
This kit consists of:
- a list of inventive, poignant questions; I love how thought provoking and open they are, welcoming many different points of view in your group
- quotes about The Great Gatsby
- fun facts - some were fun.

There was just something missing to make a solid kit for my book club. Photos, some DIY, recipes, playlist, etc. would have been welcome. Even better, I would love to see some instructions for throwing a theme-inspired "party" for the meeting!

The Great Gatsby is one of my favourite books ever, and as such, I have spent a lot of time reading and analyzing it (apart from studying it at university). And so, I loved the question that made me reflect about things that I had never consider and also keep thinking about other theories that I had on my own (like question number 3, I will be reading Keath Fraser and Edward Wasiolek's essays).

The Fascinating facts were also very interesting, I am glad I got to know new things I did not know about this novel that I love so dearly. Although a fun fact I missed seeing is how the author stole parts from Zeldas's (his wife) diary to inclde in his novel... but that is an issue for another day!

Amazing inspiring and thought provoking questions that are PERFECT for any book club meeting. Highly highly recommend. I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.

I have always loved this classic, The Great Gatsby. I am continuing to ponder the d meaning and this book club kit helps with the discussion guide. It would be so nice if a “ book club kit” was standard because it can be difficult to create detailed discussion questions during book club (with/without an adult beverage in hand). Thank you for this book club kit!

I loved getting to look through this fun Book Club Kit for The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald.
This is one of my favorite books and I recently reread it in celebration of Gatsby entering the public domain.
It's a great title for book clubs- even if it's one most people have read for school there's so much to discuss and it begs to be read again.
The packet is beautiful with artwork that compliments the book's new cover art.
It includes great discussion questions, trivia about the classic, as well as quotes about the book from other notable authors.
Thanks to Penguin Random House Library Resources and NetGalley for the advance copy.

This is a great resource for a book club or as a way to help further your understanding of a book. I will definitely be using this when I read the book.

Book Club Kit: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a fun addition once you've read The Great Gatsby to further engage in the story. This kit includes discussion questions to consider with a book club or individually, praise for the book throughout the years, and fascinating facts about the novel. This is the perfect kit to enhance the reader's overall experience.

I found this super helpful after I finished the novel.

I received this book free from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Ah, The Great Gatsby. Love it or hate it, 2021 will be the year it starts living its best life since it has just entered the public domain. I can't wait to see how various publishers update its tired (if iconic) cover to make it appeal to a broader, younger audience.

With that in mind, the assemblage of a new Book Club Kit seems quite timely. This particular six-page low-frills guide includes:

- Discussion Questions, such as, "Which character strikes you as the most contemporary? The most old fashioned? Why?" (Fairly standard and academic)
- "Love for Gatsby Throughout the Years," which is just a list of quotes from various authors like, "I'm a devoted rereader of The Great Gatsby -- I'm never going to get tired of it" by Ann Patchett. (Not honestly sure how this would help a book club discussion.)
- Fascinating Facts about the novel, e.g. "Fitzgerald's editor Maxwell Perkins also brought Ernest Hemingway to prominence, publishing The Sun Also Rises in 1926." (Not all that fascinating, IMO.)

Ultimately this collection is pretty dry and won't really help a book club host more than a few minutes with Google would. A Great Gatsby meeting/party begs for 1920s theme suggestions, food and recipes, and decor/fashion ideas. If the goal is to capture the interest of potential new readers of the classic, it might help to provide some content that could be a little more accessible and fun for the standard book club reader.

This will be useful for reading groups and book clubs as The Great Gatsby is a novel we're considering doing a reading series around featuring some of the new Gatsby-related titles coming out this year--thanks to the publisher for making it available!

Pros: I have never read/used a book club kit before, so I was very interested to see what it included. Now that The Great Gatsby is in the public domain, I suspect there will be many retellings of it, often paired with the original. Such a book club guide will come in handy. The discussion questions got me thinking as I read them, and I especially enjoyed the fascinating facts. This guide made me want to reread The Great Gatsby.

Cons: None really. I'm not sure what readers might expect from such a guide, so it's possible they might be looking for more discussion questions. However, ten questions is generally more than sufficient for a book club meeting.