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Originally Posted by kansaskyle
More info on finding/creating questions
What I felt was missing in the MR club was any worthwhile discussion for those that read the book. I looked over the discussion thread again for the book I read here on MR, and the majority of posts were people saying they liked/disliked the book. There wasn't much actual discussion. I did try to to spark some back-and-forth with a couple questions, but the one respondent didn't feel like it was his or her right to speculate. I felt like that was actually part of what we as readers can explore and discuss in a book club.
Many books and clubs have a set of questions they post about the book to generate discussion. Here is an external link for The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society book, which includes 15 suggested questions for book club discussion.
If the author/publisher don't have a ready made list, someone would need to generate a set of questions to the book, or we could always default to some generic questions like the 40 suggested here.
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You've given me a lot to think about. Basically, I agree with your conclusion, but perhaps not what lead up to it nor for the best way of coping.
I agree that, especially lately, discussions such as they've been have been at a level of why the reader liked or disliked a book, although on rereading the
Cold Day discussion, I thought it went deeper than that and was in fact pretty successful. I think book choice is a major element here; sometimes there's not that much to be said.
I like the idea of discussion questions, especially if the nominator or someone else so motivated could pose a couple. I'm a bit leery of canned questions and I have to add that I hope we don't end up with typically popular book club choices, for many reasons.