Book Club Question

Malanee · Post by **Malanee** » Fri Dec 16, 2005 1:39 pm

It seems like participation has dwindled. Is anyone reading The Painted Drum or No Logo? Why or why not?

I'm thinking that mabye I'll start choosing books from the list we compiled and then having you vote on them. If a book doesn't get enough votes, we'll move on to the next randomly selected book.

Does that sound good? Or do you have other ideas about getting the book club going again?

Lady Bug · Post by **Lady Bug** » Fri Dec 16, 2005 1:44 pm

I like that idea! I'm not reading the current books because I'm trying to finish up some personal reading . . . but I'm definitely going to read The Color Purple with the group!

Post by **Spudd** » Fri Dec 16, 2005 1:44 pm

I'm not, because I got confused by the whole "3 books at once" thing and totally dropped out for some reason. But I want to rejoin. I think voting is a good idea - if only one person is interested in reading a certain book, then participation will probably be low! Or, rather than voting, have veto-ing.

We should get a list of everyone who is interested in book club. Then if say 25% of members veto a given book, we would skip that book.

I don't know if these suggestions make sense but they are just what I thought of.

Malanee · Post by **Malanee** » Fri Dec 16, 2005 2:09 pm

Spudd wrote:I'm not, because I got confused by the whole "3 books at once" thing and totally dropped out for some reason. But I want to rejoin. I think voting is a good idea - if only one person is interested in reading a certain book, then participation will probably be low! Or, rather than voting, have veto-ing.

We should get a list of everyone who is interested in book club. Then if say 25% of members veto a given book, we would skip that book.

I don't know if these suggestions make sense but they are just what I thought of.

We don't do 3 books at a time anymore Spudd. Just one per month! I randomly choose the next 3 books we are going to read so that those who order books online through amazon can get free shipping.

I think I'll do a poll with the list of books I've been giving and see how many people want to read each book and only chose those that are the most popular. Does that sound good?

Post by **Spudd** » Fri Dec 16, 2005 2:11 pm

Sounds good!

Marie · Post by **Marie** » Fri Dec 16, 2005 2:14 pm

I've dropped out because I've been really busy and haven't been reading anything. Plus, it seems like very few people want to discuss.

I think a vote is a great idea.

Lady Bug · Post by **Lady Bug** » Fri Dec 16, 2005 3:12 pm

Marie wrote:I've dropped out because I've been really busy and haven't been reading anything. Plus, it seems like very few people want to discuss.
I think a vote is a great idea.

I think this is another problem - I was fairly disappointed with the response to the Kite Runner - especially given what a powerful book it was! I posted some questions and nobody responded

Malanee · Post by **Malanee** » Fri Dec 16, 2005 6:13 pm

Lady Bug wrote:
Marie wrote:I've dropped out because I've been really busy and haven't been reading anything. Plus, it seems like very few people want to discuss.
I think a vote is a great idea.
I think this is another problem - I was fairly disappointed with the response to the Kite Runner - especially given what a powerful book it was! I posted some questions and nobody responded

But LB, didn't you finish it long after everyone else had? I remember we had quite a lively discussion on that book. That was before we switched over to this board.