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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow, this thread!

I've been in a variety of book clubs for the last 25 years are so. There are some that were very open-door. And there were some longstanding ones where membership was not open. Not only that--it would have been a difficult dynamic for anyone to come into cold!

I really like the idea of helping her start a neighborhood book club, if you have the bandwidth for that. It's not that she wants to join your specific book club... it's that she wants to join a book club, ideally with you. You can make that happen ... as long as you have the time/inclination to do so.

It's also okay to say, "I'm so sorry, the club membership is kind of set as-is, but I will let you know if that changes."
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Agree. It's reasonable for the neighbor to expect that the book club was open to new members since so many are. How was she to know that it wasn't that type of group? There's nothing wrong with asking. If OP feels bad about having to say no, which is fair enough, then she should be more careful about how much she talks about it with others to avoid future uncomfortable situations.[/quote]

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