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

[poppyseedheart]

Yay book club!!!

1. My TBR is long as hell and ever growing. I'd actually be curious to hear what genres people like to read, because I read widely but tend to zero in on litfic. If folks were hoping to do more SFF instead I am happy to adjust expectations haha.

Some titles on my list, by genre
Litfic: Young Mungo (Douglas Stuart), The Late Americans (Brandon Taylor), How Much of These Hills Is Gold (C. Pam Zhang), Rouge (Mona Awad), I Have Some Questions For You (Rebecca Makkai), Beloved (Toni Morrison), Time Shelter (Georgi Gospodinov), Y/N (Esther Yi)
SFF: Black Sun (Rebecca Roanhorse), The Wolf and the Woodsman (Ava Reid), The Darkness Between Us (Elliot Schrefer),
Romance: Book Lovers (Emily Henry), Stars in Your Eyes (Kacen Callender), Before I Let Go (Kennedy Ryan)
Horror: Bad Cree (Jessica Johns), Hell Followed With Us (Andrew Joseph White)

2. I'm actually team check in at the end because I tend to read sporadically but in big chunks, so I struggle to read towards specific checkpoints because I tend to blow past them. That said, I'm fine with whatever! Happy to have milestones and just only talk about the book up to that point if I've gotten further too.

3. I love discussion questions!!!!!!!!!!!

[latespring]

I'm pretty flexible with whatever we read! also I spot Beloved on there, and I keep meaning to read that! (I theoretically read it in high school, but mostly did not.) Hell Followed With Us was really rewarding, it was the book that got me back into reading

and excellent that's great to know! It seems like the vibe so far is leaning in favor of milestones.