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I like the idea of genre based. The problem I found sometimes with New Leaf was that some books nominated didn't fit the topic but were allowed anyway. TBH, it's unfair to vote and then not participate. The thing is, your vote could be the one to cause a specific book to win when maybe a different book would have won in a run-off vote. So I do think you should vote if you plan to participate. If something happens where you cannot participate, then just say you cannot participate. |
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Oh yes, doorstopper classics are still an option! I'm still back on the first page of posts responding lol and hadn't got yet to responding to the every-three-months (would that be called tri-monthly?) classics idea, which is also great.
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That's an intriguing idea. I'm not sure who I'd told but I had been planning on asking CRussel about the possibility of both the lit and New Leaf book clubs going to alternate bi-monthly schedules so that anyone could participate more in both if they wanted as well as giving me and him intermittent breaks from running the clubs, but in a twist of fate he announced the New Leaf club would be closing down just before I had a chance to bring it up. C'est la vie!
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It sounds like a great idea. Who would want to run it? I wouldn't mind doing it if no one else was interested, but I'm totally fine and dandy just being a participant and it seems like who originally discussed it should get first dibs. |
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But what about having more genres? Just having classics might not be appealing to enough people.
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04-20-2021, 08:13 AM | #52 |
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There seems to be sufficient interest to give this a flutter, or the discussion wouldn’t have got this far. It’s going to be classics only. Public domain, so no problems with price or availability. Participate or not, although it’s to be hoped people will.
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Otherwise, it seems to me that a book will end up being discussed for maybe two weeks, tops, then everyone will go silent for 10 weeks till the next book. And if someone skips a book, it's a 22-week gap. If the hope is to keep the club as a going concern, it needs to become a habit, and can you develop a habit with such long gaps? |
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I'm good with science fiction, fantasy, mystery, thriller, and fiction. It depends on the book in question. But if we do it so we have a book each month, we have a better change (IMHO) of reading something that will be of interest (I hope) to enough people. So if one month is a bust to you because you don't want to read the book chosen, maybe the next month will work out. I think that if we limit this to just classics, we might alienate some. I'm trying to be as inclusive as possible. |
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This is the sort of reason why just classic is not a good idea. That's why I want to have the other moths be other types of books so a book like this can be read and discussed. |
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Why try to put too much into a single club? I think issybird's quarterly classics discussion sounds like a good idea. I think if we had another quarterly or bi-monthly club for other books that would be fine. There have been 2 book clubs running for most of the last 10 years. People will be free to participate in any, all, or none of the available discussions based on their interests.
Keeping things separate puts less overhead on whoever is leading the group(s), so hopefully less stress. This also let's more people try different roles in different groups. Maybe issybird leads a classic's group but only wants to participate in another from time to time. I know people who are leading feel pressure to read or at least try every selection. So having more than one group will relieve some of that pressure. |
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