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New Book Club Anyone?

39 replies

gormers · 09/03/2011 12:02

Hello!

Wondering if anyone fancied getting a new group off the ground, it looks like all others are full right now.

Let me know if you fancy it and once we've got a few members we can get a group and and running.

OP posts:
Buffty · 09/03/2011 21:39

Hi Gormers,

I'd like to join :)

piebald · 10/03/2011 10:13

I think i would but am not quite sure how it works

maypole1 · 15/03/2011 17:33

me too please

dashboard · 13/04/2011 18:53

Hi, I'm interested but maybe am too late for this one?

goodbyemrschips · 13/04/2011 19:03

im interested....how does it work?

weedle · 17/04/2011 22:17

Me too.. interested but don't know how it works :)

queenbathsheba · 17/04/2011 22:19

Hello me too please but don't know how it works

Buffty · 18/04/2011 09:09

The book clubs usually work by setting up a list of 12 people and a choose a date for posting. Each person then chooses one book and posts it on to the next person on the list so everyone should receive a new book. Every month you then send on the book you've read that month to the same person you posted your first book to. So after 12 months everyone should have read all 12 books. :)

What kind of books does everyone like reading? I'm not really very fussy except I don't ever really read any science fiction.

queenbathsheba · 18/04/2011 14:54

That sounds good Buffy. I have read some SciFi but only old stuff and the must reads!
I'll read anything, I even read the labels on cereal packets unless the kids wrestle the packet off me.
I like history, fact or fiction, poetry, humour ( I could do with something that would make me giggle) I tend to read in subjects rather than author so I'm open to new ideas and I am way out of touch with new fiction and authors so I'd love to read someone elses reccomendation, esp if it's contemporary lit or even just a laugh a minute chick flit.

weedle · 18/04/2011 15:12

Sound good to me! (Urgh but that means I've got to brave the post office doesn't it?!)

Can I ask we have no surviving child abuse books? (Child called IT /Daddy No etc etc) Obviously I don't mind missing out a month but would prefer to be skipped if there's one in circulation. Conversely I've read some pretty hard hitting stuff from the library recently and really enjoyed them but they wouldn't come under that catagory if that makes sense? (And I've not upset/offended anyone Blush

piebald · 18/04/2011 20:09

I think Gormers who started this post has jumped ship! Shall we try it anyway? I agree with weedle, I will read most things but I really dont want to read what i have heard on here i think described as 'mis lit'
I read a real mish mash of books , tend not to be too heavy , dont think my concentration is up to it any more

piebald · 18/04/2011 20:12

Are you out there Gormers , do you still want to do it or have you regretted posting that?

Buffty · 19/04/2011 08:12

While we wait to see who's still around and if anymore people want to join is it worth us thinking of which books we might send? Just thinking that we don't want to be sending books that other people have read.

weedle · 19/04/2011 13:09

Sounds like a plan. Are we nominating books we've read and therefore rate or going for one we like the sound of? I used to go to a book group and you weren't allowed to suggest anything you'd read. Was tricky!

Has anyone PM'd gormers? I'm happy to just didn't want the poor thing to be bombarded!

queenbathsheba · 19/04/2011 21:07

Hello everyone, If we are sending books on, should they be books we have already read.

piebald · 19/04/2011 22:27

Well the book i would like to recomend is one i have read.

piebald · 19/04/2011 22:29

JUst noticed Weedles post about PMing Gormers-i didnt know you could do that , havent been on here very long

weedle · 22/04/2011 20:50

Bumping to see if anyone else fancies joining us? [bugrin]

chwedl · 23/04/2011 14:45

Hi there, thanks for the message Weedle, very much appreciated that you came and found little me! I'd love to join if you'll have me!!! I don't like science fiction either, but otherwise am open to pretty much anything!

chwedl · 23/04/2011 14:46

Anyone got any books in mind yet?

BitterChocolateEggScoffer · 23/04/2011 14:49

Is there room for one more?

weedle · 24/04/2011 23:08

Hi everyone, thanks to those who replied to my messages - hopefully I can answer your questions. But I will warn you that I've not done this before, so if you know better please tell me!

From what I can gather is most of the book swap groups have 12 members, each member nominates a book and posts it on to the next person in the list. So 1st posts to 2nd, 2nd to 3rd and 12th to 1st etc. We have a month to read the book and then post it on to the same person so after a year every member has read all the books.

We then have a thread for each book so people can give their opinion on each book as they read them.

We'll agree a list of 'no go' genres - for example I don't want to read childhood abuse memoirs or 'mis-lit' as it's known. Anything not on the list is fine, a mix of genres etc is positively encouraged [bugrin]

I personally have no preference as to whether people send a book that they have previously read or just one that they like the look of.

The people who have expressed an interest are below:

dashboard

piebald

goodbyemrschips

queenbathsheba

maypole1

chwedl

BitterChocolateEggScoffer

weedle

So obviously we're up to 8 members - shall we say we'll set a deadline of 1st of May for confirmation of new members and book details? That way we'll know where we're headed so we can get started asap?

Hopefully as we add our 'no go genres' and book choices it'll bump this so it stays in our 'threads I'm on' section and people know we're looking for new members.

Also, if I've stepped on any toes or am talking rubbish just shout! [bugrin]

Just got to decide what book I'd like to send...

Buffty · 26/04/2011 07:30

Don't forget me! :)

weedle · 26/04/2011 17:49

Yay!

So that's 9 Grin

Any ideas of books?

piebald · 26/04/2011 20:43

Do we wait to the end of the year to discuss the books-THere is no way i wil beable to remember anything, i struggle to remember books at the end of them let alone months later