Book Club Goes Worldwide!

Hello!

Here's the post to discuss as you read Black Water Sister. Unlike for Station Eternity, this will be the only discussion post for the book until our final discussion (July 13th)!

Also, the winner of our poll for next book after Black Water Sister was "The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera"!

As suggested in the comments of the last post, we can end up reading the rest of our runners up in the order they were voted in: Middlemarch by George Eliot, Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh, How Much of These Hills Is Gold by C Pam Zhang.

Here is the code for spoilers, please make sure to use it in the comments when discussing spoiler-y elements of Black Water Sister!

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From the responses on the last post, I think a shorter timeframe would work for pretty much everyone! (Me as well!) I wanted to leave that discussion open for a little, but I think a fair amount of time has passed now.

Since no one seemed too attached to discussion posts with set deadlines/timeframes, we can adopt what tullycat proposed (having one discussion post for live reactions, instead) for the next books. I'll still post a final post for discussion purposes as well!

I'm proposing the following schedule, and also that we pick our next two books at once, since there were a lot of good nominations last time, and most of the things we brought up this time were repeat nominations. Here's a little poll for that; I'll close this in a week. I've pulled the books that were suggested/repeated in our last discussion post for that.

If anyone would like to campaign for a choice, please comment below!

Proposed Schedule:

• May 29 - June 5: Poll Open
• June 8: Poll results go up (both book picks)
• June 8 - June 15: A week to acquire Book #1
• June 15 - July 13: Reading Book #1
• July 13 - July 20: Discussing Book #1


• July 20 - August 17: Reading Book #2
• August 17 - August 24: Discussing Book #2

Here is the start of reading! As a reminder, the book we settled on was Station Eternity by Mur Lafferty.

If you're using check points, you have until March 10th for the first optional discussion (which will be for Chapters 1-9). If you're waiting until the end, our final discussion will be April 21st.

Let me know if you have any questions and happy reading! <3

A fair amount of books have been suggested over on this post for our first book, and so I'm capping suggestions to open voting.

Ideally I'd like to get a book a fair number of us are interested in that no one has read before. If you could fill out this form, that would be great! I'll close this in a week (2/2), and make a new post with the results when it's closed.

If you'd like to see the full list of titles (with summaries and genres), I've collated that here.

Additionally, it seems like we're about evenly split on bookclub format (guideposts along the way vs. one ending wrap up discussion), so I'm proposing an optional check ins 1/3 and 2/3 of the way through the book, and a larger discussion at the end of the book! That would take place over the course of 2 months. Please let me know if this would not work for you. I would also ask for questions to submit to the group at the 2/3 mark, as several people mentioned they'd have fun with them for a jumping off point.

Let me know if there's anything else on your mind!

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!