Some responses to your responses
mustardseedtrees: Several people who are planning to participate in the online book club I’m trying to put together recommended Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close as one of our reads. It looks like that will actually be our first one, too! How did you like it?
bitchpleeze: Hahaha, I’ve been meaning to pick up a copy of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. What did you think? Would Austen be pleased?
commentaire: I love the film adaptation of Stardust, but wasn’t too thrilled with the actual book. Though that may be because I had already fallen in love with the movie by the time I read it and so was biased toward the changes made for the film. Have you read anything else by Neil Gaiman?—I’m embarrassed to say that Stardust is the only one I’ve read.
kaylee: Did you read Lord of the Flies for school or for fun? Did you like it? It’s absolutely one of my favorite books. Also, best essay I’ve ever written was an analysis of LotF, so it holds a special place in my heart for that reason as well.
yellow-walls: I’m sorry you didn’t like The Iliad. I’ve only read parts of it, but I very much enjoyed The Odyssey. What didn’t you like about it? Or was it the having to read it for school that ruined it?
Everyone else who answered my last post: How did you like what you read? Would you recommend it? I’m always looking for books to add to my “to read” list.
Online Book Club
First off, thanks to lemonadediary for letting me know that there already exists a Tumblr Book Club on Good Reads. I believe it was started by the very awesome librarianpirate, and they’re currently reading The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness. So you guys should check it out if you’re interested.
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However, I’m not very good with the discussion forum types of book clubs and I really like the idea of having a set time for “meetings,” so I’m going to go ahead and try and make the one I posted about happen.
Right now I’m thinking we could have two books to discuss each month. So reading a book and meeting to discuss it roughly every two weeks. I know that sounds like a lot, but I figure that it actually makes it pretty flexible since you could choose to participate in both readings/discussions if you have the time, or choose to read every other book and have an entire month to read each one. You could even do every third or fourth book if you’ve got a really busy schedule.
The really difficult part would be setting times for the meetings, but I still think we could make it work.
Anyway, I’m still trying to work it out in my head, but if you’re interested, shoot me an e-mail at atwistofgoodness@gmail.com with “Online Book Club” as the subject, and a couple books you’d be interested in reading or have read and think everyone else should. If you have any ideas about making the club work, I’d love to hear them. Also, please include a link to your tumblr (if you have one, I assume so if you’re reading this). Hopefully we’ll be able to make this happen.
Would you be down for an online book club?
Everyone who would participate would agree to read the same book, and then we’d meet up online in a chat room at a designated date and time and discuss what we’ve read. I think it could work, and I think it could be quite a bit of fun.
So, would you be interested?
