I was wondering what happened! Usually whoever runs it hands it off to someone else in the group. Who ran Watchmen? I'm deep into PKD's VALIS trilogy, which I expect will take gobs of my time, but I still like seeing the discussions.
I've been thinking: since most everyone on hubski reads and tends to read a diverse selection, what if instead of a traditional book club we occasionally had a thread where people could post 3 (or whatever number) of mini book reviews? That way we could start conversations about books that interested us and get exposed to many more kinds of books. It would also allow us to be less tied to the schedule of reading and coming together to discuss one book and getting bummed out when people lose interest or can't finish it because real life gets in the way? Thoughts? thenewgreen, kleinbl00, Meriadoc
Ah ok. It's just that people don't participate when "their" book doesn't get picked and that number gets winnowed down further due to people's real life stuff. All I'm saying is, if we loosen it up a bit and just do a thing where we talk about books, maybe we can still get people to talk about and share books while still having it be a tag on hubski.
I'd be down with reading a classic. I think a lot of people could swing that. But I agree that most times it fizzles out and it ends up a handful of us discussing. Still, what's wrong with that? Worse case scenario only a few of us read it.
I'm with you on that. Let's think on it and perhaps consider what has made the sic-fi book club work better than the original bc.
Mini book reviews are a good idea. I've done a couple, I've seen a few others. I tag them with 'hubskibookclub' when I see them. In-addition-to the regular book club postings, not instead-of :-)
Eh, my earlier review got no traction, but I've been meaning to post another one in any case. I figure a books tag will do to make it visible to interested parties.
Yeah, you'd mentioned that to me before. I dunno, I kind of think that #hubskibookclub is dead . . . again. There is a #books, but it's mostly mpoe who posts on that. Cool sounding books and review format, but I can't listen to a half hour to an hour of audio about a book I might or might not read.