Hello, everyone! We have some changes to the group that we wanted to notify you of, based on the feedback we've received from our members.
We mods feel like the group has really moved away from the book discussions into a lot of cool, exciting other things. However the end result in keeping up with these other things is that we're pretty spread thin and not able to devote ourselves to the basics of the group as we should.
To that end, we are pulling back a bit and readjusting some things. The buddy reads will change from every month to every quarter. You and your buddy can pick the time in that quarter when you want to read the book you select. We thought this might help people who would like to read with a buddy but the traditional monthly schedule isn't working for.
We will be restricting the yearly challenges to just a couple. While we've had a lot of exciting challenges in the past it's hard for everyone to keep up and we hope to encourage more participation in the few we do post.
Lastly, book discussion in the group has really flagged and we would like to spend our time this year improving this. To that end we are posting one general nomination thread. People can submit various nominations at any time and we mods will select several for whatever poll is next (allowing us to work within themes and such). We were slightly uneasy about this because we do like the group being able to be more hands-on with group read selections. However, the past year we have had a few people not really interested in participating who nevertheless nominate and vote for books that no one else wants to read. We hope to eliminate this problem by being more hands-on for now.
If anyone has questions or needs clarification let me know!
We mods feel like the group has really moved away from the book discussions into a lot of cool, exciting other things. However the end result in keeping up with these other things is that we're pretty spread thin and not able to devote ourselves to the basics of the group as we should.
To that end, we are pulling back a bit and readjusting some things. The buddy reads will change from every month to every quarter. You and your buddy can pick the time in that quarter when you want to read the book you select. We thought this might help people who would like to read with a buddy but the traditional monthly schedule isn't working for.
We will be restricting the yearly challenges to just a couple. While we've had a lot of exciting challenges in the past it's hard for everyone to keep up and we hope to encourage more participation in the few we do post.
Lastly, book discussion in the group has really flagged and we would like to spend our time this year improving this. To that end we are posting one general nomination thread. People can submit various nominations at any time and we mods will select several for whatever poll is next (allowing us to work within themes and such). We were slightly uneasy about this because we do like the group being able to be more hands-on with group read selections. However, the past year we have had a few people not really interested in participating who nevertheless nominate and vote for books that no one else wants to read. We hope to eliminate this problem by being more hands-on for now.
If anyone has questions or needs clarification let me know!