1. Activate your inner movie (or book) critic

A book club is a reading group who read and talk about books based on a topic or an agreed-upon reading list.

The book club can meet monthly. That will give members enough time to read the book, think about key ideas, and prepare for the meeting.

If you can, spend your lunchtime doing more than just eating. That could mean walking, reading a book, or even watching a movie.

The goal is to get away from your desk, preferably out in the fresh air, and focus on something other than your work during your lunch.

• The book became the greatest science fiction novels of all time and sold millions of copies.
• Dune’s official Hollywood debut happened in 1984, but it was a cheesy movie (with Sting in a codpiece) that was ridiculed. The grander, epic-scale movie was planned but never got made.
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