Book Club Thoughts

[latespring]

Hello everyone! Several friends indicated an interest in a bookclub, so I put together this space to potentially host one. I'd like to aim for something slower and asynchronous, as I think it'd be nearly impossible to host any live discussions and coordinating schedules for anything quick would be messy.

1. Are there any books you're interested in reading? I'll compile suggestions and make another post about that.
2. What kind of timeline would work best for you? (Reading over the span of a couple months and coming back at the end of that? Checking in every couple weeks at a book milestone? Something else?)
3. How structured would you like discussions to be? (Ie: would having a couple guiding questions be helpful or annoying? I think individuals submitting questions for an end of book discussion could be fun!)
4. Anything else?

This community will remain open for anyone who'd like to join now or later!

Comments

[bookishdagger]

Thanks for setting this up, I’m excited for this :)

1. I have a lot of books I’m interested in reading!! Off the top of my head/from my Goodreads want to read: Parable of the Sower, Klara and the Sun, and Black Cake are books I’ve wanted to read but honestly there are a lot of books that I haven’t read and would like to and I’m sure many of them would be recommended by other people here!
2. I’d like having milestones personally so I know roughly what pace I should be reading at though I wouldn’t mind discussing a book all at once
3. I think it would be nice to have starter questions that we don’t necessarily have to stick to, just to provoke discussion. I also like the idea of individually-submitted questions!

[latespring]

oooh I've also had Klara and the Sun on my radar!

and good to know! I also think we wouldn't necessarily need to stick super close to any questions, but they'd be nice for something to start with

[kpopwinemom]

Klara and the Sun was one of my boss's favorite novels but it didn't stick out to me at all...I thought it was essentially the same novel as Never Let Me Go, which I liked better? (Not to come in and immediately be negative!)

Black Cake is also on my to read list!