Book Clubs

[Angela]

None of my Kindle books have the discussion questions. We could possibly let the leader buy the DTB for the questions. I'm assuming we will have different leaders for different books, or how does that work?

The book club I have participated in the leader led most of the discussions. Only time we had different leaders was when the questions were in the back of the book. We took turns suggesting books. We read from 3-8 chapters depending on the size of the book and met once a week. We tried to not spend more than 5-6 weeks on a book, and we only discussed what was in the assigned chapters so that those who "read ahead" didn't spoil it for those that stuck to the assigned reading!!   

[Betsy the Quilter]

Woo Hoo Betsy!! Looks like our late night discussion has a lot of interest! How exciting! AND, the possibility of chat coming soon is even better, although we can make this work without it. We do want to make sure that people understand that if they enter into a Book Club discussion thread or a chat, that there will be spoilers and they enter at their own risk!! If we have to black out everything we say, it would take away from the discussion. I also agree that we should probably wait until after the holidays to begin these Book Clubs to give us time to work out guidelines. Many books do now come with discussion questions for book club settings. Does anyone know if the Kindlized books have the questions?? I haven't bought any kindle books yet that had discussion question in the printed version yet.

Yes, I thought we would have something like (just an example) Book Club--The Princess Bride (spoiler alert--enter at own risk!) in the subjects.  (I stole the "enter at own risk" from you, Angela).

Congrats too on the 1000 posts.  I left you champagne somewhere, your avatar still had 1000 at that point!  It had 998 when I got up, so you made it sometime this morning, right?

Betsy

[Angela]

Yes, I thought we would have something like (just an example) Book Club--The Princess Bride (spoiler alert--enter at own risk!) in the subjects.  (I stole the "enter at own risk" from you, Angela).

Congrats too on the 1000 posts.  I left you champagne somewhere, your avatar still had 1000 at that point!  It had 998 when I got up, so you made it sometime this morning, right?

Betsy

Thanks Betsy! I will be on the lookout for it! I only got on for about 15 minutes this morning and you had been here and left. I had 998 and left 2 posts on purpose! I wanted you to be able to see my 1000 when you came back on! Silly, I know, but I get that way sometimes!! 

I am excited about the possibilities of the book clubs!!

[Betsy the Quilter]

Not silly, great fun!  For you and me anyway!

Betsy

[LuckyRainbow]

Back on topic here. I just finished the Kindle version of The Friday Night Knitting Club. It includes Book Club type questions at the end of the book. Just thought you might want to know in case there is interest in a BC for this book.

[tlshaw *Padded Cell 511*]

I finally had a chance to check the board this morning and found this Book Club idea. I love it. Count me in for Outlander! Yes, I need another thing to occupy me with school next semester. (This will be my way to relieve stress). Oh well, back to work and to working on my semester projects that are due shortly.

[Betsy the Quilter]

Back on topic here. I just finished the Kindle version of The Friday Night Knitting Club. It includes Book Club type questions at the end of the book. Just thought you might want to know in case there is interest in a BC for this book.

Great, LR!  Then all of us can have our uteruses leaking out of our eyeballs (LOL).  For those who missed it, reference to this thread:http://www.kindleboards.com/index.php/topic,292.msg18101.html#msg18101 (I was surprised to find that was NOT the only mention of "uterus" in the KBoards.

I think we'll start a at least a couple of different book clubs in January so this might very well be one of them.  Very different from Outlander, so that should work.  Thanks!

Betsy

[Dori]

Back on topic here. I just finished the Kindle version of The Friday Night Knitting Club. It includes Book Club type questions at the end of the book. Just thought you might want to know in case there is interest in a BC for this book.

[Dori]

Just ordered samples of these two book club suggestions.

[Betsy the Quilter]

I finally had a chance to check the board this morning and found this Book Club idea. I love it. Count me in for Outlander! Yes, I need another thing to occupy me with school next semester. (This will be my way to relieve stress). Oh well, back to work and to working on my semester projects that are due shortly.

Great, sounds like Outlander will definitely be a book club suggestion.

Any other suggestions?  So far, we have
Outlander
Friday Night Knitting Club

 

[Linda Cannon-Mott]

Great, sounds like Outlander will definitely be a book club suggestion.

Any other suggestions?  So far, we have
Outlander
Friday Night Knitting Club

Good morning Betsy,
How will this work, we will choose several books and then each person picks the book they want to read? My first book club experience & I am so excited!

Linda

[Betsy the Quilter]

I've never done a book club either, so I'm relying on a combination of advice from experienced book clubbers and making it up as I go along.

They will be books available on Kindle.  More incentive to click on Watership Down and To Kill a Mockingbird!

Right now, based on comments we've gotten, I think we're going to have more than one book club, based on interest:

Sci Fi Book Club (Outlander definitely the first book)
Mystery/Thriller Book Club
Romance Book Club, etc.

Take Outlander as an example.  The topic could be "Sci Fi Book Club: Outlander Spoilers (Mon)"  so that people know what book is currently be discussed, the day the book club "meets" and that there are spoilers if you haven't read the book.  Each Book Club selection would have a leader.  Gertie has volunteered to lead the Outlander discussion.  Hopefully we would have different leaders for different books.

Each Monday (for example), three chapters would be assigned to be read by the next Monday.  Once the chapters are read, starting the Monday they're due, book club members could post about the chapters and discuss the questions posed by the leader.  This would work much as our topics do now, with people chiming in.  You wouldn't necessarily have to be there on Monday, you could post as your schedule permits before the next chapters are due.

I think different book clubs would "meet" different days.  We would have them on the Calendar, too.

That's what we're thinking so far...  welcome all suggestions and book ideas.

Betsy

[Linda Cannon-Mott]

I like that concept. I'm sure we have people on the boards with bookclub experience that will help with suggestions.

Linda

[Luvmy4brats]

Betsy,

Outlander is 41 chapters. We may want to consider reading more than 3 chapters a week.

JMHO, but I wouldn't classify it as Sci Fi at all. It's really historical fiction with romance and then a bit of time travel thrown in. It's not like Time Travelers Wife jumping back and forth through time, it's more of a get thrown back and stay there most of the story type thing

I'd also like to recommend Snow Flower and the Secret Fan as a future selection.

[Linda Cannon-Mott]

Betsy,

Outlander is 41 chapters. We may want to consider reading more than 3 chapters a week.

JMHO, but I wouldn't classify it as Sci Fi at all. It's really historical fiction with romance and then a bit of time travel thrown in. It's not like Time Travelers Wife jumping back and forth through time, it's more of a get thrown back and stay there most of the story type thing

I'd also like to recommend Snow Flower and the Secret Fan as a future selection.

Luv4brats I am reading Snow Flower and the Secret Fan now and loving every minute of it. I got the recommendation from here on the boards, maybe from you?

Linda

[bkworm8it]

Bookstores have Outlander in the Literature section and Romance section. We could list it under Liturature book club instead of Sifi and still have a Romance book club.  Just a thought

Theresam

[Luvmy4brats]

Luv4brats I am reading Snow Flower and the Secret Fan now and loving every minute of it. I got the recommendation from here on the boards, maybe from you?

Linda

It wasn't me who recommnded it, although I would in a heartbeat. I'm reading it right now too. I've had it on my list to read for a very long time and finally started it. It's amazing!

[Gertie Kindle 'a/k/a Margaret Lake']

Betsy,

Outlander is 41 chapters. We may want to consider reading more than 3 chapters a week.

We can do five chapters a week if you want, but more than that might scatter the discussion. 

JMHO, but I wouldn't classify it as Sci Fi at all. It's really historical fiction with romance and then a bit of time travel thrown in. It's not like Time Travelers Wife jumping back and forth through time, it's more of a get thrown back and stay there most of the story type thing

Absolutely agree.  It is a bit less than historical fiction, but way more than romance.  Outlander pretty much defies classification. 

Perhaps I can put some kind of blurb in the first post of the discussion from the jacket for those who haven't read it so they know what they are getting into.

[Betsy the Quilter]

Great tips, and shows how much I know about Outlander.  For some reason I thought it was SciFi...Maybe we'll have book clubs without characterizing the book in a type of lit.

As for 41 chapters/five chapters a week.  Sounds good!  We should probably try to have the book clubs lasting 6-8 weeks and plan the chapter accordingly.  That's about the extent of my attention span, anyway.  I'll add the suggested books to our list of possible books.  If you are interested in being the leader on a book, let me know.  We'll all help!

Betsy

[Gertie Kindle 'a/k/a Margaret Lake']

Great tips, and shows how much I know about Outlander.  For some reason I thought it was SciFi...Maybe we'll have book clubs without characterizing the book in a type of lit.

There was a sci-fi movie called Outlander, but I don't know if it was based on a book.  The ironic thing is it starred Karl Urban who has long been my pick for Jamie.  I was totally ecstatic for about half an hour. 

[Betsy the Quilter]

There was a sci-fi movie called Outlander, but I don't know if it was based on a book.  The ironic thing is it starred Karl Urban who has long been my pick for Jamie.  I was totally ecstatic for about half an hour. 

That may be what I was thinking of.  I'm easily confused.

Betsy

[Suzanne]

This is really exciting. Count me in! I'll want to participate in most of them. I'm not into the vampire genre, but everything else is of interest to me.

[Gertie Kindle 'a/k/a Margaret Lake']

This is really exciting. Count me in! I'll want to participate in most of them. I'm not into the vampire genre, but everything else is of interest to me.

I feel the same about vampires.  That's what so nice about this idea.  We'll probably have three or four genres going at once and we can pick only those discussions we want to participate in, without feeling left out. 

[robin.goodfellow]

I want to play!  Especially on the Outlander series.  It would be nice to read those with friends.  But I  like vampire novels.  I'm not disqualified, am I?

~robin

[Betsy the Quilter]

I want to play!  Especially on the Outlander series.  It would be nice to read those with friends.  But I  like vampire novels.  I'm not disqualified, am I?

~robin

Not at all.  And I like vampire novels too.  We will definitely have a book club selection from Vampire Lit soon!  Any suggestions?

Betsy