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Originally Posted by hildea
[...] If the main problem with the previous clubs were time consuming nomination & voting, I guess that should be simplified? For instance one suggestion per person, and all suggestions end up in the poll (ie. no need to second a nomination)?[...]
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I appreciate the big *if* that I highlighted above, because the selection and nomination process - when I have been able to find time for it - was actually a big part of the enjoyment for me, and often quite productive in terms of turning up new reads (both what I found for myself when researching the themes, and what I found when investigating other people's nominations - or even just books other people mentioned but did not nominate for one reason or another).
The main prompt for me joining the club (right at the end of the MRBC as it turns out, but that was just coincidence) was to try and shake myself out of a reading rut and make myself look at more new stuff (I'd gotten quite addicted to re-reading because there's nothing quite like comfort food), so the idea of bypassing or abbreviating the nomination process doesn't sit that well with me (even though I have admitted not having the time for it right now). I wanted to highlight with this post that not everyone finds nomination to be a PITA, quite the reverse.
That said, and as I mentioned earlier, I do also consider the sharing of interpretations to be a critical part of the club. I remember some strong conversations in the NLBC (eg: about whether the protagonist jumped or whether she was pushed) that I thought that were really interesting, both the different interpretations and the strength of feeling for them. And for all the compliments I've been offering the Literary club, the discussions there have been almost too cursory/polite for my tastes, making the book selection the biggest part of the interest for me ... but maybe I should not have admitted that.
