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Book club - plans

[diet_poison]

When would folks like to have out August discussion? The 29th is a Monday, a week from today; that or any of the following two days work for me. Sunday the 28th miiight work but I am not really sure. Any preferences? Please comment!

Also: any suggestions/requests for how to format the discussion? I'd like to do whatever is most likely to generate discussion. Does the format affect whether people are likely to participate? Please comment! Feedback always welcome!

Re: Book club - plans

[(Anonymous)]

Sunday plz

Re: Book club - plans

[diet_poison]

I may be unable to do Sunday this month. I'll hopefully know in the next couple of days.

People have spoken up in favor of Sundays before, but the one time we did them it didn't increase turnout at all! We'll have to give it another shot, maybe next month if not this one?

Re: Book club - plans

[(Anonymous)]

Same here. I've read the book - I just need to find the notes I made...

Re: Book club - plans

[shortysc22]

Whatever's easiest for you. I still have to start this book (hopefully tomorrow!) but I'll be attempting this month's book!

Re: Book club - plans

[diet_poison]

It's good - I really, really liked it! I hope you do read it :)

Re: Book club - plans

[shortysc22]

That's good to hear, hopefully it'll be a quick read.

Re: Book club - plans

[diet_poison]

I thought it was a fairly easy read.

Re: Book club - plans

[(Anonymous)]

No preferences. But I'm on the 'wrong' side of the globe anyway, so it doesn't really matter to me. I plan to DNF the book, so I won't be able to join in a proper discusson, but I will come by for a probably not so little rant the following day. Because what I've read so far really annoyed me. :D

As to discussion format, I honestly don't know what you could do differently. I think posting your own thoughts and then see what others thought seems to be the only reasonable way to do it.

I know plenty of popular books/bestsellers have 'official' guidelines and questions meant for bookclubs, but those I've seen were all embarrassingly bad questions and focussed on the least interesting parts of the book, so I'd vote strongly against using those.

I think the turnout at the discussion is mostly affected by the book in question. Popular, better known books will generate a higher number of participants. So I'd be really shocked, if this month's discussion would be as deserted as it was last month for Para Handy.

Re: Book club - plans

[diet_poison]

That is really interesting! I'll be interested to hear what you didn't like about it. I definitely had a few issues with it (the MC started out kind of insufferable for example, though actually one of my favorite things about the book overall was how he changed) but overall I really liked it.

Sadly all of the discussions we've had since I re-started the club have been very small. Last month's was only a little smaller overall, not a whole lot. Hopefully this one will be bigger.