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Ladies,
We already have the polls set for the June book of the month and I would like us to pick a June book but I want to know if you are all still interested in continuing with the same format for the months of July and Augest. I know that this is a busy time in family life and there are alot of vacations and so on. We can suspend the book club picks for those two months and resume with the book club in September. During the hiatus we can list some summer beach reads, favorite magazines or whatever we would like. Please let me know what you all think.
Kyleen |
| Posted by Kyleen on 05/22/2008 08:04 AM
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| For me, summer doesn't cut down my reading time (I just try to do more of it outside), so I'd be happy to keep going with the current format. |
| posted by Indigo Ottyr on 05/22/2008 08:20 AM
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I'm up to anything. I do alittle more reading durning the summer by the pool or at the shore home. So I can go either way .
I must say I was every good with May's book I think I am busier at the end of the school end with all the end of the school yr stuff. like field trips , feild day, exams summer sports start to kick in. ( ect....)
So I looking forward to June's book. |
| posted by Patricia on 05/22/2008 08:23 AM
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| I just had another idea that may increase group participation. What about the possibility of having TWO books of the month. People can read one or both, whichever suits them better. The discussion can be more participant led, like with Poison Study, so it wouldn't be more work for Kyleen. Since a lot of people actually have more time to read in the summer, it might not be a bad time to try it out. |
| posted by Indigo Ottyr on 05/22/2008 08:39 AM
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| I was actually thinking that would be a great idea, a month is a long time for just one book, I would be willing to try it for the summer and if it works out then we can continue it in the fall as well. |
| posted by Kyleen on 05/22/2008 08:46 AM
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| I think that we should read two books in the summer. |
| posted by Jessica on 05/22/2008 12:37 PM
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| Well this sounds like a plan, now the only thing to figure out is how we want to do this, since the polls only gives us one option we can go with the two books with the largest votes? Or I can list all four books and everyone can choose the two that they want to read and then just have an open forum for the last week where everyone can tell us about the books they read and start discussions? |
| posted by Kyleen on 05/22/2008 01:39 PM
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| I was envisioning that the top two picks would be the "official" books for the month. I think 4-5 selections to vote from for July would be ideal as well. |
| posted by Indigo Ottyr on 05/22/2008 04:41 PM
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| That sounds great to me, there will be three books automatically left from this months vote and then we can add two more to the vote. The top two picks will be the two suggested reads and then we can have a more participation oriented discussion. |
| posted by Kyleen on 05/22/2008 07:05 PM
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| Any ideas on how to encourage more people to vote, still only 5 votes and the last few months only 4 or so each month and we are well above 30 members.... |
| posted by Kyleen on 05/22/2008 07:51 PM
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I like the idea of two books. I hope to have more time this summer to read since we can be outside and my mom is home to help with my daughter. I was unable to get the May book of the month but that is ok because I was so busy. Can't wait for the next ones.
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| posted by Heather on 05/22/2008 08:50 PM
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| Yes thats a good idea.2 at a time.either/ or.Where Donna and I go to get books we go on a waiting list and sometimes it can take weeks for us to get a book.It took me 3 months to get 1 book. |
| posted by Lexi on 05/27/2008 11:36 AM
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