Panda with issues...
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I was reading a book last night, and, as usual, remembered quite how much I enjoy reading books.
I was wondering if people would be interested in an online 'book club', where we take it in turns to suggest a book to read, and then do the usual discussions afterwards, maybe one a month, or one every two months? I don't know how quickly people get through books, I suspect I get through them rather more rapidly than others, so I'm willing to be flexible on the deadline length.
I think it's probably likely that we share similar interests and taste in books, but that we've probably not always read exactly the same books as each other.
I guess that as some basic rules, I'd suggest fiction only, with a page limit set around 400-500, no books in the middle of an ongoing series. No mammoth slogs and no 'short essays of samuel peeps' or anything like that. Preferably stuff that people may not have read, so no suggestions of Lord of the Rings, the Hobbit, Harry Potter, the da Vinci Code etc (threw up a little in my mouth at the thought of Dan Brown). I guess I'd also prefer not to be suggeted 'Halo - Master Chief masters reading, and chiefing' and other such spin offs, though would be willing to take a vote if people REALLY DESPERATELY wanted to read that stuff.
Obviously this would require some commitment, but it may require no more commitment in time than you already spend reading books.
Is there any interest at all?
I was wondering if people would be interested in an online 'book club', where we take it in turns to suggest a book to read, and then do the usual discussions afterwards, maybe one a month, or one every two months? I don't know how quickly people get through books, I suspect I get through them rather more rapidly than others, so I'm willing to be flexible on the deadline length.
I think it's probably likely that we share similar interests and taste in books, but that we've probably not always read exactly the same books as each other.
I guess that as some basic rules, I'd suggest fiction only, with a page limit set around 400-500, no books in the middle of an ongoing series. No mammoth slogs and no 'short essays of samuel peeps' or anything like that. Preferably stuff that people may not have read, so no suggestions of Lord of the Rings, the Hobbit, Harry Potter, the da Vinci Code etc (threw up a little in my mouth at the thought of Dan Brown). I guess I'd also prefer not to be suggeted 'Halo - Master Chief masters reading, and chiefing' and other such spin offs, though would be willing to take a vote if people REALLY DESPERATELY wanted to read that stuff.
Obviously this would require some commitment, but it may require no more commitment in time than you already spend reading books.
Is there any interest at all?
