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Book Club Kit: Untamed is one of a new series of brochures and supporting materials available for fiction and nonfiction titles from Penguin Random House Librarian Resources. Released 11th Feb 2021 by Penguin Random House, this entry is filled with interesting background history to enhance the personal or book-club reading experience for Glennon Doyle's memoir, which was published in March 2020. This brochure is 6 pages long and includes book discussion questions and some guided discussion exercises for group discussion.

I enjoy the extra resources and enhancements the larger publishing houses are able to employ to support their publications. I also appreciate that most library systems can provide quite a lot of extra support and guidance to their patrons and groups. These materials would be appropriate for online/remote discussion groups, formal education (modern history, sociology, culture, politics, gender/diversity studies, and allied subjects), and for enhancing personal reading of this memoir.

Four stars. Compact, succinct, and with beautiful typesetting and simple graphics. It does -not- include the original book, just the discussion and support materials (which are very abbreviated and no-frills). Available free from the publisher's website.

Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.

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So many cute ideas for a book club! Also, the discussion questions will add such depth to the story!

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Probably the weakest of the book club kits PRH has provided on NetGalley recently. Nothing additional added other than the questions. I do appreciate that they were broken down by their corresponding part of the book, but the questions posed didn’t make me want to read Untamed and I feel it was a lacking kit overall.

Thanks NetGalley and Penguin Random House for the opportunity to review.

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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.

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Thanks to the publisher for providing this book club kit! I found this to be very useful to have. I think the suggested questions are thought provoking and they’re nicely separated into parts (part 1 questions, part 2 questions...).

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This book club kit is a valuable companion to the book. The questions in it are great for book clubs, but also for your own personal journaling. There are some very meaningful questions in this kit. I hope it will become a standard to create and provide book club kits with every book. To strengthen community and to deepen your reading journey. I'm glad I received this as an ARC.

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My book club read Untamed a few months ago and this discussion quite would have been golden to have! I enjoyed reading and reflecting on the questions it poses us to ponder. Thank you for this. I may need to revisit this book club discussion with my other members.

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This discussion guide is a great resource for a book club. I will be interested in using this for when I read the book.

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