I’m just wondering what people think, although this hasn’t actually happened yet and what I’ve been told could be incorrect.
I’ve been in an informal book club based at my gym (national chain) since it started up two years ago by another member. The gym themselves have no involvement whatsoever.
A woman came along to a session (held 10am once a month) a few months ago and we’ve not seen her since, aside from around the gym. One of the gym staff attends and has just told me that this woman told her that she is going to take over hosting the group, the WhatsApp group, and as she has a lot of time on her hands she will be making it a formal group.
Apparently she was not impressed that we spend about 15-20 mins discussing that month’s book and the rest of the time chatting over coffee. We take it in turns to choose the next book. I must impress that this is a very informal group, everyone seems happy and they keep coming back.
If this was me I’d come along for a few months and basically ‘read the room’, maybe bring some book questions along and suggest we look at and discuss some and see what the reactions are etc?
We are so informal we don’t even have a host as such, I took over as admin of the WhatsApp when the original founder moved away. We have our next meeting this week and I’m just wondering how to respond if this woman does try to take over and dictate how we are run. I don’t think the other members will be thrilled somehow.