I'm going to compile a short list of options for an inaugural book club "meeting" for OCTOBER. It will be season/holiday appropriate. There will be a poll open for TWO (2) days!! I'm making it short so we can all go about obtaining the book and start our reading. I will announce the "meeting" date once we get past choosing a book to read.
I suggest the following rules and guidelines:
1. The person who chooses the book (or in this case, organizes the voting of choosing the book) will be the host.
2. The host is in charge of the following things:
a. choosing the book
b. choosing the date of the discussion/meeting
c. getting the discussion going with the first post on the chosen date - this means you should choose a date where you can post in the morning (or late the evening before) so as to give everyone time to get in comments and/or follow-up posts.
3. The discussion on the book will stay "open" and going for 24 hours. This should account for our different schedules and time zones.
4. The discussion will be in the form of comments responding to the original post and/or follow up posts. I will make sure to invite everyone participating to the blog so you have permission to post.
5. This pretty much goes without saying since we all basically read the same books, but I feel the need to include a rule of giving a general "rating" of the book you choose and perhaps a link or summary of the description of the book so people can decide whether or not they want to participate that month. This could just be a link to the book on the B&N website - but it's nice to know a little about what we will be reading.
Okay. That's what I've thought of. Thoughts, input, changes? Anything to add? Look for that poll sometime next week!! :)
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I think it sounds great! I'm excited! So we'll just take turns being the host, right? And we'll do... one a month? I think it sounds lovely. And we should probably just do like a one to five scale or something, or stars or thumbs or whatever. And maybe when you're hosting you can include it in the title of the post, and then everyone who's responding can just put it in their comment. I'm excited to get started!
A scale on how you like the book? like during the discussion? i like that idea. maybe i could average out the scale and keep that in the side bar as we go along?
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