[sun surfer]

I like the categories now. While changing a few in theory may sound like a good idea, in practise I think it would be a massive and muddled undertaking to put it to nominations and voting.

There is also the prospect in voting of this becoming less than a "general" book club, if the votes should fall a certain way. And then what would you do? Veto the results or certain nominations, or let it stand?

To give an example, we could end up with these categories: post-apocalyptic, dystopian, space opera, time travel, steampunk, magic realism, mythic, paranormal, sword and sorcery, etc., which are not bad categories for a genre club but which would make the general book club not general.

Of course those examples are extreme, but the point is that leaving the categories completely open to voting could result in anything and would have a good chance of having the club lean away from "general" and towards certain genres.

If you are intent on changing some things, I'd rather, after everyone has had their say, you personally decide the categories based on our feedback but also based on still keeping the club very general (and I think that's the way the categories were decided before). But as I said, I'm fine with not changing anything.