What are one's Book Club habits?

[BrazenMuse]

I know we've been pretty random and chatty around here, when we can manage to actually get in here and post...but I always feel a bit silly when not discussing a book in person: what are the kinds of questions one asks of which books...how do we turn our reader idiosyncrasies into interesting conversations ...how do we draw each other into discussing things even if we haven't read them together?

How do we create, for each other, those links between text & self, text & other texts, text & the world around us?

[Sweetiwluv]

First I read the back
if that catches me then
I will read the prologue
then
First chapter and then the last chapter

Yes, I do read the middle but - that is my decider if I want to continue or not!

Sweeti

[12th house]

I know we've been pretty random and chatty around here, when we can manage to actually get in here and post...but I always feel a bit silly when not discussing a book in person: what are the kinds of questions one asks of which books...how do we turn our reader idiosyncrasies into interesting conversations ...how do we draw each other into discussing things even if we haven't read them together?

How do we create, for each other, those links between text & self, text & other texts, text & the world around us?

Hmmm good questions. I have sort of seen this forum as a recommendation engine, but also a place to talk about books in theory, in general, rather than specific works as you might in a book club.

That said, I'm not sure how we could create those links unless we specifically start threads about books multiple members have read and/or actually try to do an online book club. I'm not opposed to talking about books online.

As for actual Book Clubs, I have been invited to join but I haven't yet. I guess I'm a more solitary reader, although I would join a bookclub if the meeting requirements weren't too demanding (e.g. once a month is almost too much).

[BrazenMuse]

Hmmm good questions. I have sort of seen this forum as a recommendation engine, but also a place to talk about books in theory, in general, rather than specific works as you might in a book club.

That said, I'm not sure how we could create those links unless we specifically start threads about books multiple members have read and/or actually try to do an online book club. I'm not opposed to talking about books online.

As for actual Book Clubs, I have been invited to join but I haven't yet. I guess I'm a more solitary reader, although I would join a bookclub if the meeting requirements weren't too demanding (e.g. once a month is almost too much).
Understood on the meeting thingie. We sometimes seem to be reading the same stuff...at least some of us. I'd like to see us actually discuss books we might have all read or be reading right now...
I hate to add too much to my reading load sometimes !! But, for instance, I read Deep Survival and then had recommended Freakonomics...if a bunch of us have read either or both, then that might be a good discussion.

Posting interesting passages and discussing them can be productive even if all of us havent read the entire text...just because it seems many of us share overlapping obsessions/interests...it's what we do with articles in the main forum anyway, no?

Hmmmm...thinking, thinking...

[BrazenMuse]

I'm fixin'ta order that "Farewell to Alms" thang and I'm picking up Harry Potter tonight...start teaching HS next week, dunno if the kids read it this summer...best to be safe and catch up...I've read all the rest of them too...:grinyes:

I don't always like Rowling's handling of diversity in her character set, especially when it comes to physical attributes...but overall...she's pretty ok w me.