I love having this book club and I'm so proud of us for keeping it going for over a year now!! I was in D.C. last weekend with Debbie and Kim, and we were discussing our love for the book club. However, we have two suggestions that might make it even better (maybe there were more, but I can only remember two).
Suggestion #1: More discussion of the books. Obviously, our separation makes it difficult to discuss the books, but we are all smart people and I'm sure we can think of some solutions. Some ideas are a conference call, having the host (person who chose the book) post questions throughout the month or maybe at the end of the month and we can all respond to them, ????? I'm sure there are lot of other things but I can't think of any right now. Do you guys have any suggestions? My preference would be to NOT do a conference call. I used to think that was a good idea, but we live in a total of three different time zones and it gets complicated. I also like to be forced to write my thoughts. Not being a student anymore, I have found that my writing skills are suffering and I'd appreciate the opportunity to work on them.
Suggestions #2: It would be nice if we chose books at least one month in advance so we have time to either buy it or check it out from the library. I think this will increase the likelihood that we all finish the book by the end of the month. An example of this would be announcing December's book on Nov. 1st.
What do you all think of these ideas? Does anyone have anything else they would like to change or add? Who is choosing the book for December? I think it is Anjanette's turn, if she is still participating. How do you spell her name? I know I always get it wrong.
2 comments:
Maybe we can try to do a conference call 2-3 times a year, but I agree that writing our thoughts would probably be more feasible.
I believe we discussed having the person who chose the book, writing a question, having people respond in the comments, and then writing another question to have people respond to.
I think you got the spelling right...
I love the suggestions.
Another idea could be a group chat in gmail, but that's kind of the same thing as a conference call and has the same time zone problem.
I really like the discussion questions idea and I also like the idea of having it towards the end of the month, unless they are like a study question that wouldn't ruin the plot.
I have more thoughts, but my brain just stopped. More later...
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