The Club

Who's in this club?

Here's who has said they'll give the club a try:

Dave & Mary
Darryl & Barbara
Jim & Alice
Wendall & Shelia
Susanna H
Jeremy N
Catherine H
Gayla P
Kwame C
Amy
Erin C
Robby G
Meredith
Carolene D
Carolyn A
Katherine G
Cheryl P
Charity W

How does the club work?

Here's my current thinking regarding how the club works. I am amenable to any adjustments or refinements folks may suggest.

1. I'd like to have a group of around 10 members, as I expect a few folks will miss each meeting.
2. We meet on a Thursday, allocating approximately 1 week for each 100 pages of the selected text.
3. The meetings will start at 7:00 (is that good?), and last 1 hour.
4. We'll meet at someone's house. Bring your own beer.
5. There are no immortals in our group, and we will not live long enough to read things we simply don't like.  Therefore,it's okay to not finish a book, but be prepared to explain what it was about the book you didn't like.  The "TL/DR" effect will hopefully inform our selection process so we can avoid choosing books for the group that folks don't enjoy or won't read.
6. I'll moderate the discussion.  I expect most of what we choose will be popular enough to have been selected in other reading groups, and I expect some critical thinking questions will be available from those other groups.  I figure I'll attach the questions here, and use them as a framework for the discussion.
7. Books get on the list of candidates for the reading group on the What's Next page.  Please post a comment there with the book title and author you would like to propose for the list.
1. Any book that requires another book to be read to understand it (for example: Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, or James Joyce's Finnigan's Wake) won't be acceptable to this group.
8. I'll post on this blog about once a week with whatever observations I have from my reading experience with the current book, and also remind folks about what page number they should be at in the book, by the hundred pages a week measure.
9. Club members can email me similar observations about their reading experiences, and I'll post the text as a blog post here, with an attribution.

That's it! If folks have some feedback on my procedures, or have comments or questions about the group, please post a comment or shoot me an email, I'll reply as soon as I can.