Actual Book Club?

[ladymoreta]

Awesome, thanks!

[PrincessFiona]

I don't use goodreads, tbh. I joined awhile back and it automatically added all of my FB friends. I haven't been back to GoodReads since the day I joined. I just dont' have time to go to multiple places. I can honestly barely keep up with iMSN and FB. Why is it that we didn't just do it here? Sigh.

[WolfpackWife]

Kris, I'm fine with keeping it wherever the majority would like it! I just happened to be messing around on iMSN and Goodreads simultaneously last night and made the group. I definitely don't want to encourage people to pick up more social media accounts, I just felt like Goodreads would be a more concise place to consider using for this purpose...which is not to say we wouldn't/couldn't also have discussions here. I just like how Goodreads provides links, reviews, synopsis, etc. about books that are posted and it's just easier to keep track of what I've read and want to read - plus I love comparing book selections to others on there as well. Definitely no hard feelings if you don't want to go down the GR path...and my feelings won't be hurt if the group dead ends. It's just there if we want it!

[spotty_dog]

I've been thinking about it and if a group here in the forums was marginally likely to work, the group on Goodreads seems doomed to fail. It's fun to join up, like flashing a gang sign or something. But I only go on Goodreads when I have a book I want to remember reading and have a record later of when I read it. I have no need for another social site.

Ennyhoo. I still think if there's going to be a book selection it should be in a poll right here. We can nail down the nitty-gritty of where we talk about it later.

[ladymoreta]

Maybe one of these: http://apps.npr.org/best-books-2013?

[spotty_dog]

Or one of the National Book Award winners for fiction? http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2013.html

I have a book by Jhumpa Lahiri on my shelf right now actually, waiting to be read.

[WolfpackWife]

SD, I've got several Lahiri books on my shelf as well. I've also heard that Donna Tartt's "The Goldfinch" is excellent. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...-the-goldfinch

[Ladybug]

If we plan out 6 months at a time then peeps can join in when they like the book. I think when one person has to plan month-to-month it's more likely to peeter out, hence my photography flop. Too many organizers is hard to coordinate too. Simple and preplanned without additional work for anyone would be most likely to succeed IMO.

[MrsK]

Or one of the National Book Award winners for fiction? http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2013.html

I have a book by Jhumpa Lahiri on my shelf right now actually, waiting to be read.

You usually can't go wrong with national book award winners.

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[Cleave]

I always mean to read the book assigned to a club and then somehow don't. And I love to read and to read books someone else recommends. SOmething about the deadline always gets to me I think.

[MAPPLEBUM]

Jhumpa Lahiri would be a good recommendation...not to stop you but I do believe I've read just about everything she's published.

Though I do think Goodreads is more conducive to this kind of activity for simplicity sake we can leave it here. I think the best way for this to work is for people to submit 1 book recommendation to me through a private message and once I have, what? 10-15? I'll submit them on this thread and people can respond with a list of their top 5. Winners are chosen for the next five months and then I'll create a new thread titled by the book and month.

Any fiction/nonfiction genres welcome but lets stick to what I said previously, nothing too smutty, political, or religious.

Sound good?

[Ladybug]

Sounds great! Thanks for offering to organize this

[L.Jane]

mapple- thanks for taking this on... I don't know how to do it, but sooner texan has often created polls on here so that people can vote and you don't have to read through a billion posts with their votes. That might be an easier way if you can get ST to tell you how to do it.

[ladymoreta]

Sounds great! Thank you!

[BonBon]

Sounds good to me, too!