Join Patch Editor in Online Book Club

This week, people nationwide began the first few pages of what is to be a shared adventure in the world of books.

The movement of pages is part of a new mostly "virtual" book club started by The Huffington Post. The Huffington Post Books Editor Andrew Losowsky let HuffPo readers in on the club in December, and I'm hoping some local Patch readers will get involved, too.

Here's what Losowsky told readers last month:

The HuffPost Book Club wants to be a part of the way you read books. We invite you to join a special HP Book Club digital community, through your existing Twitter (#HPbookclub), Facebook, Instagr.am, YouTube and Flickr accounts, to share both thoughts and real-world experiences as we read.

In the first year, the Book Club will feature 10 titles, an eclectic selection of prominent names and overlooked authors, spanning a wide variety of publishers and genres. At the culmination of each book, we will announce the next.

We begin with one of the most remarkable pieces of fiction in recent years: The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht.

Youngest winner ever of the Orange Prize for fiction, shortlisted for the National Book Award, named Apple's Fiction Book of the Year, and included in the top books of 2011 lists from Amazon, the New York Times and the Washington Post, it's a brutal and magical story.

I'm about to order my copy, and I hope you order yours and join in. As the group evolves, we'll host online discussions on Patch about the book, and hopefully team up with book clubs and readers in the community for some real-life book club events.

If you plan to start reading and join the group, please e-mail me so I know you're out there, at Lyssa.Beyer@patch.com.

Now, go enjoy the story.