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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I've not yet read the Stabenow book, but I've read some and none of them were standalone except the first one. After that, nope. This one is also not standalone. But, the real question, is is it self-contained?
This post by DiapDealer explains standalone and self-contained very well. Standalone is used incorrectly for this book.
As for the Aaronovitch book, it was nominated because the previous month the book club read the first book in the series and that would have been a perfect time to read the second book. I am reading the second book and it does help to have read the first book. Aaronovitch does not recap. |
DiapDealer I hope will forgive me if I say he proposed an explanation that works for him. I think it's a very woman-or-man-for-herself/himself kind of thing. I'm fine with Stabenow as a standalone, and who's to say who's right?
As for Aaronovitch, I personally would be opposed to reading any series in sequence in the book club; I'd recommend starting a thread like the Jim Butcher thread for such discussions. It would be a long two months without a change for someone who didn't like a series and there are a lot of different books out there. But ultimately the voters/discussers get to decide.