Operation Book Club discussion

Hey guys! Until now we've been announcing all of our upcoming books on our tumblr, but we just got some new members who migrated over from facebook (thanks, Hadeer!), so it occurs to us that we should probably post our announcements on goodreads as well, for those who may not use tumblr frequently. So, to recap our recent news:

Discussion day for Everything I Never Told You and Lies We Tell Ourselves is Sunday, October 2.

And after that, we're switching to one book a month! Our October book will be Commonwealth by Ann Patchett, and discussion day will be Sunday, November 6.

One book club member who participates in this weekend's discussion will randomly be chosen to help figure out what we read in November. That person will submit 3 or more options to us (can be any genre, just try to stick to books that are no longer than approx. 500 pages!), and we'll create a poll for the rest of the book club members to vote on.

To see who's chosen as our next book selector and to see the poll for our November book options, watch this space!

If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to comment or get in touch with one of the mods. Thanks, guys!

We have selected Chelsea to choose the options for our November book! Once Chelsea has submitted her selections to us, we'll set up a poll which will be posted here.

Chelsea's options are in! Here are your choices for November's book:

- The Color Purple by Alice Walker
- The Vintner’s Luck by Elizabeth Knox
- Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho
- To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
- The Just City by Jo Walton

Poll is HERE - make sure to vote by October 12. Thanks, guys!

The results are in! November's book is going to be The Vintner's Luck. Discussion day is going to Sunday, December 4.

If you'd like to be eligible to choose the options for our December book, make sure to post in one of our discussion threads at some point this month, or on our next discussion day.

Happy reading!!

Thanks to those who participated in the Commonwealth discussion - if you haven't gotten around to it yet and would still like to share your thoughts, remember that all discussion threads stay open indefinitely - feel free to post at any time, we'd still love to hear from you!

In the meantime, our next book selections are going to be chosen by Dawn. We'll hopefully have our next poll posted in the next couple of days, so watch this space!

Also remember that our discussion for The Vintner's Luck is going to take place on Sunday, December 4. Happy reading!

Hi all! Dawn has chosen the books for our next poll.

- The Sassafras Crossing by Lindrith Davies
- Mama Day by Gloria Naylor
- The Diviners by Libba Bray
- Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
- To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

Vote HERE by mon, november 14!

Hey, so, I don't know if it's just me, but the voting link just reroutes me back to this page?

Oh man that's annoying! Here's the link in full: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/3W9TX6M

The results are in! And plot twist, you get two books!

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

There was a tie, but rather than breaking it we decided to just go ahead and read them both - I think a solid majority of us have already read Station Eleven, but it's hopefully going to be a very good discussion book! And this way those of us who have read it will get to read something new. (If you haven't read either of them, don't fear, they are both short! And as always, don't feel pressured to read both books if you only have time for one.)

Discussion day for these two books is going to be Sunday, January 8.

Enjoy!

Hey all! Because I'm a bit of an idiot I forgot to post the poll for January's book in this goodreads thread, and posted it only on tumblr. Since the month is already half over and we want to give people plenty of time to plan ahead on acquiring the next book, we're going to leave the results as they stand, and just vow to not make this mistake again. To our members who don't have a tumblr, I am very sorry about this!!

So without further ado, our next book is going to be:

An Untamed State by Roxane Gay

Discussion day will be on Sunday, February 5.

Hope you're all enjoying Station Eleven & To The Lighthouse!

Hey guys! Two quick notes:

- our January book, An Untamed State, includes very graphic depictions of sexual assault. Keep that in mind while deciding whether or not this is something you would be comfortable reading.

- we've written a participation survey - if you guys could take a quick minute to give us some feedback, we would really appreciate it!

Thanks!

Hey guys! Here are the options for our March book:

- Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
- I'll Be Right There by Kyung-Sook Shin
- All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld
- Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
- The Life and Death of Sophie Stark by Anna North
- The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu

Vote HERE by Tuesday, February 28.

Thanks!

operation book club is back in action!

… after our unplanned 2 month hiatus. sorry about that!!!

and we’re going back to the basics. if you were with us in the beginning you’ll remember our book selection process, and that’s what we’re going to be doing again.

if you weren’t with us then, to recap: if there’s a book you think would make a good book club read, submit the title and author to our Tumblr ask box (http://operationbookclub.tumblr.com/ask). you can submit as many titles as you want (try to keep it reasonable, i guess anywhere from 3-7 would be great), with the following criteria:

- all genres accepted!
- just try to stay away from really obvious choices. e.g., for classics: to kill a mockingbird, pride & prejudice. for YA: the hunger games, the fault in our stars. basically skip the ones you think everyone has read by now. get creative! but also, not so creative that the book is impossible to find.
- try to keep it 500 pages or less
- that’s it really

please submit your suggestions by july 15. after that, the mods will compile a list of everyone’s suggestions with a brief summary, and you all will vote for which one you most want to read. we will be doing one book a month for the time being. we’ll also try to rotate genres, i.e., if a historical fiction book wins for august, then for september we’ll make sure a historical fiction book doesn’t get selected again, etc.

we are also starting from scratch, so we won’t be using the old google doc that we used to have. if you had a suggestion on there that you’d like to submit again, go for it!

thanks & enjoy! we can’t wait to see what everyone comes up with!