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Category: Books, Movies, Media.
Christina and I were talking the other day and we decided that it is high time that we start a book club. We have been talking about this since back in our MTC Development days. I remember that we were going to start one with Katrina and Debbie Bright and Becky Beesley and Ilona and Josh Brown (none of whom work in Development anymore… hmmm.)
Well, we think that we should start an on-line book club. We would create a blog and we would have all the people who wanted be blog members so that they could create new postings or whatever. Then we could all read the same book and make postings on the blog about the book we were reading.
I think it would be really fun. We could switch books every two weeks or every month. That way we could all read a cool book, but not be bound to show up at a certain time to discuss the book (which would be pretty hard these days anyway, since we’ve mostly all moved out of Provo anyway).
So, we are open to discussion about this topic. Is anybody interested? Would you read the book and come comment on it? What should our book club (blog) be called?
December 9th, 2004 at 10:43 am
I would LOVE to do this. I might not be able to guarantee that I would be able to read everything, but I would certainly try. And I would definitely comment on things (I think most of you know how I get about literature …).
Just a thought, though: a blog may not be the best place to do this. It might be much easier to use a message board or even a livejournal. That way, we could keep discussions about particular books all together in one thread, and that would make it easier to read. I will check in to some possible user-friendly, free message boards. And I already know about livejournal, if you think we might want to do that.
December 9th, 2004 at 11:31 am
I have access to a message board that is free with my web hosting service. Here is an example of it:
http://www.paulpehrson.com/bookclub
If you want to try it out, log in with:
username: test
password: test
Is this something that would work better than a blog or livejournal forum?
December 9th, 2004 at 12:36 pm
This is exactly what I was talking about! I think this would much easier to manage than a blog. What does everyone else think?
December 9th, 2004 at 2:56 pm
I know jack squat about blogs, white boards, etc etc that you listed. I DO know, however, how to read a book and share my opinions on it. As a result, I think it’s a great idea. I think once a month is more feasible than every two weeks; I would have to lie about reading the book if we did that. We should rotate who picks them so we are exposed to everyone’s different genre and author preferences.
December 10th, 2004 at 3:33 pm
Ok. Here’s what we’ll do: Christina and I will have a “ground-rules” discussion, and formulate an opinion of what we would like the ground rules to be. We will then submit it to any interested parties (NOTE: this means you will need to tell us you are an “interested party”), and we’ll work it out together. Then, when we’re all done, we’ll call the resulting decision the “ground rules” and anybody who wants to join will have to accept the “ground rules” before they will be able to register for an account.How does that sound? Anybody consider themselves an “interested party”? Comment here, and I’ll get an email with your message.
December 12th, 2004 at 9:24 am
I loved what Victoria said: “I know jack squat about blogs, white boards, etc etc that you listed. I DO know, however, how to read a book and share my opinions on it.”
That pretty much describes me too. Would I have to have a blog or could I just post as Anonymous? I mean I could be Anonymous # 3 or something like that!!