Rhia
June 21st, 2007, 03:18 AM
Reading is cool, right? And after you've finished reading a really cool book, you want to talk about it, right? And it's always nice to be introduced to new reading material, right? And what's an awesome way to read new books and talk about them with people? A bookclub!
They way I'm kind of thinking this would work is that we all suggest a book and then vote for what we'd most like to read and discuss. How long we'd take to read a book and whether we'd break it up into chunks (We'll read to chapter 10 by Date and then take a break for a while to discuss it on the forums and then read to chapter 20 by Date...) would depend on the book. Like we'd probably takemuch longer to read Lord of the Rings than we would The Secrect Life of Bees, because LotR is at least four time as long.
I'd like to get a lot of variety in what we're reading and to make pretty much everything fair game for suggesting, with just a few guidelines:
Suggestions need to be something it's pretty easy to get a from a library, so a brand new, just released book is out (especially something like HP7 that has a five year long waiting list to get a book), as is something that's ages out of print (unless it's up on Project Gutenburg). Basically, books need to be fairly easily accessible.
Be open to new stuff. This goes along with wanting to get a lot of variety in what we're reading. I love it if we could discuss stuff that ranges from Beowulf or Gilgamesh or the Tale of Lord Genji to Stephen King and modern mystery novels. Even stuff like comics or manga would be cool, if we can find stuff that's stand alone and wouldn't require hunting down and reading ten issues or books. At the same time, if you can't get into something, no shame in saying "Sorry gang, I have to sit this one out." Discussing something you're not interested in is no fun. And that's another reason why I'd like it if we can switch up genres and styles, so that people won't be left going "You know, I'd love to join the bookclub, they look like fun. But all they're doing is reading Victorian Lit/Terry Pratchett/The entire Wheel of Time series."
Speaking of the Wheel of Time series, if we're going to suggest books from a series, they need to be books that can stand alone and that we won't have to a) do a lot of background reading on for it make sense or b) read a whole bunch of books after it for it to make sense/have some type of resolution.
And that's all I've got! Thoughts? Ideas? Suggestions? Anyone want to nominate a book?
They way I'm kind of thinking this would work is that we all suggest a book and then vote for what we'd most like to read and discuss. How long we'd take to read a book and whether we'd break it up into chunks (We'll read to chapter 10 by Date and then take a break for a while to discuss it on the forums and then read to chapter 20 by Date...) would depend on the book. Like we'd probably takemuch longer to read Lord of the Rings than we would The Secrect Life of Bees, because LotR is at least four time as long.
I'd like to get a lot of variety in what we're reading and to make pretty much everything fair game for suggesting, with just a few guidelines:
Suggestions need to be something it's pretty easy to get a from a library, so a brand new, just released book is out (especially something like HP7 that has a five year long waiting list to get a book), as is something that's ages out of print (unless it's up on Project Gutenburg). Basically, books need to be fairly easily accessible.
Be open to new stuff. This goes along with wanting to get a lot of variety in what we're reading. I love it if we could discuss stuff that ranges from Beowulf or Gilgamesh or the Tale of Lord Genji to Stephen King and modern mystery novels. Even stuff like comics or manga would be cool, if we can find stuff that's stand alone and wouldn't require hunting down and reading ten issues or books. At the same time, if you can't get into something, no shame in saying "Sorry gang, I have to sit this one out." Discussing something you're not interested in is no fun. And that's another reason why I'd like it if we can switch up genres and styles, so that people won't be left going "You know, I'd love to join the bookclub, they look like fun. But all they're doing is reading Victorian Lit/Terry Pratchett/The entire Wheel of Time series."
Speaking of the Wheel of Time series, if we're going to suggest books from a series, they need to be books that can stand alone and that we won't have to a) do a lot of background reading on for it make sense or b) read a whole bunch of books after it for it to make sense/have some type of resolution.
And that's all I've got! Thoughts? Ideas? Suggestions? Anyone want to nominate a book?