I'm coming up to my first anniversary, having sneaked in for the last couple of books of the old club, and that's turned into rather more books than I expected. Participating has done awful things to my TBR (as informal as it is), things are bad enough that I'm considering joining the addict thread!
But I must say that joining the club as breathed new life into my reading habits, so much more diverse now than I have been for some years. I've read less overall, but much more of my reading has been new stuff, which is exactly what I wanted! A lot of this new stuff I'm reading has appeared not directly from the book club but just because I'm looking more widely now than I had been for a long time.
So I'm ready to celebrate an anniversary of book clubs at MR. It's been good for me and I'm just a new-comer.
I wonder what happened to PsyDocJoanne that got the ball rolling at the start? She seemed to disappear before the first book discussion really got going. Best wishes, wherever you are.