Dear everyone,
My friend and I are considering having an informal book club-type thing over the internet this summer. It would be conducted over e-mail, at least to start; it would consist of "pick up a book and read it and yell about it, at your own pace"; and mostly we don't have any sort of structure for it. What I would hope for ideally is that we post a list of books for people to choose from, as a starting point; people choose books from that list or other books that they think they might like, and go "Hey, I want to read this!" and find others in the group who want to read it with them, and then everybody reads all sorts of things with other people. (I.e. everybody reads books and nobody wastes much time organizing anything.) Ideally people would also only read one book at a time so that nobody gets overwhelmed, but if you want to be a part of ten groups and GLUT YOURSELF ON THE WRITTEN WORD, nobody's stopping you.
TL;DR my friend and I want to start a book reading e-mail chain where you can read books and make friends all summer. IF YOU ARE INTERESTED, please leave a comment here with your e-mail
(all comments are screened) and I will keep you in mind when we get things rolling.
Similarly, this is a place for book recs. As book recs given will be unscreened, please take care to include them in a separate comment. So far our list includes Terry Pratchett, Asmiov, Faulkner, Pulitzer Prize books generally, Stephen Crane, Murakami, Philip K. Dick, a few specific titles like
this and
this and
this and specific series like
this, and...anything else we can get our greasy paws on. CAN YOU TELL HOW INFORMAL THIS IS. It is
so informal.
I hope you can come play and read with us this summer!
Love,
Larky
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