Do You Belong to a Reading Group?
Ed Lynskey
@edlynskey
Author of Lake Charles
By group I mean do you physically gather in a clan at some location and talk about books. I don't. My wife does. She tells me each member picks a slate of prospective books for the next meeting.
They discuss the choices and then take a vote. After disbanding, they all read the agreed upon books for next time. They've done it that way for years. It's a cool way to get recommendations and to test drive new authors.
Most of my interaction with readers is via the Net. Goodreads is a forum I rely on a lot. One of my favorite aspects is their reviews. I write a few words about the books I've enjoyed reading and get back comments. If I have anything to add, I respond back. Maybe I don't respond often enough, but I'm reserved by nature even when I'm online.
@edlynskey
Author of Lake Charles
By group I mean do you physically gather in a clan at some location and talk about books. I don't. My wife does. She tells me each member picks a slate of prospective books for the next meeting.
They discuss the choices and then take a vote. After disbanding, they all read the agreed upon books for next time. They've done it that way for years. It's a cool way to get recommendations and to test drive new authors.
Most of my interaction with readers is via the Net. Goodreads is a forum I rely on a lot. One of my favorite aspects is their reviews. I write a few words about the books I've enjoyed reading and get back comments. If I have anything to add, I respond back. Maybe I don't respond often enough, but I'm reserved by nature even when I'm online.
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Marleen wrote: "Yes, I do. I run the reading group in the library where I work. We meet once a month and normally all read the one same title (although this month we read various books by Bill Bryson). I really en..."The new books section at our library is looking threadbare in these lean times, also.
What I'm really afraid of is that the book budget might not increase by much once times are better again. You know how it sometimes goes, once they think you can manage on the little money you're receiving, they figure you might as well continue that way.Having said that, it will be a long time before that could become an issue here in Ireland with the state our economy is in.
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However, the downside to running a library book club is that we depend on that libary to supply the books and with the budget running backwards there are less and less new releases in multiple copies.