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kateee posted...

i'd like to hear more about how the book club works and your experience in it. it's something i've always felt like i wanted to be a part of but predict i wouldn't "do well" in because of my reading habits.

We meet once a month at someone's apartment to discuss a book. The only real 'rule' is that you need to read the book to pick next month's book. It's been a mix of fiction and non-fiction books.

The extended group is like twenty people, but generally around 8-10 people show up each month, and maybe 4 people (myself included, every time...) actually read the entire book, usually. We've had as few as one or two people actually read it. In the absence of people really wanting to talk about something specific, we often just look up "Sense of an ending discussion questions" on Google and run through a list to get people's opinions.

The reason why we get so many people showing up who don't read is that this group of friends primarily met by playing board games. Most people are coming to play the board games after the 30-to-60-minute discussion. The board games usually go for at least 3 hours.

kateee posted...

you don't renew?

I renew when I can, but if there are holds on the book, then renewing is sometimes not an option. I'd say at 70%+ of books I take out, I do by placing holds. This might not apply to your library network and the books you choose, though.

On the plus side, I wound up reading the whole book in one evening. <_<
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