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Originally Posted by issybird
Money is so personal, more personal than sex or religion or politics. People shouldn't feel compelled to explain or defend how much they spend on ebooks.
Before this can of worms was opened, people seemed to take a "win some, lose some" attitude and participate or not on that basis. Now lines have been drawn.
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I find the contentiousness and the drawn lines very disturbing. MR and this book club have widened my knowledge and introduced me to many books I would otherwise never have known about. It has become a refuge in a contentious world. I’ve come to love you wise and gentle people who have enriched my world.
Why must we seek to control how anyone votes or how much anyone spends? Why must we lament past selections? It’s a book club that I would not have supposed to be a likely arena for power struggles and control issues. If a month’s selection doesn’t work for us, why can’t we all just let it go. This month I’m reading the selection of the literary book club and have already read a runner-up to the current selection of this club. I don’t care what anyone else does. In the immortal words of the late Rodney King: Can’t we all just get along?