Book Club
myjaxon March 12th, 2009
I’ve never joined a book club before. Well, I am a member of the Paranormal Romance Lovers Yahoo! Group, but that’s completely virtual and we’re more of a discussion group than strictly a meet once a month type of book club.
I’ll be honest, I’ve never thought about joining one since I used to be so…picky about what I read. I read because I love to and I really didn’t want to have to read something I wasn’t particular interested in. I know a book club is completely volunteer, but if you’re going to join one, then you should participate, right? Besides, if I wanted to join a book club, shouldn’t I join one that has similar tastes to mine?
So I’m thinking of starting, not one, but two different book clubs. One virtual and one that does meet once a month to discuss a book. The reason I’m thinking of starting two is easy – one is going to be sponsored by Literary Escapism and will be strictly paranormal/fantasy fiction and the second would be in conjunction with my mom’s group.
The virtual one is actually going to help launch a new feature at Literary Escapism – a forum. I’ve been told I need a forum for the site (why, I’m not sure), but Jesse has been working in the background on getting one up and running and what better use for it than a book club? I am such a book junkie (what? You didn’t know?) and I love talking about books. I especially love talking about books that I’ve read that are spectacular. So once the new forum gets launched (I just need to do a few tweaks yet), I’m going to start a virtual book club at LE.
For the other one, there’s been some interest with a couple of the other moms in my group about starting a book club, but it kind of fizzled out before it really got started. However, it was brought up again and I thought – why not. If there isn’t the interest through the group, that doesn’t mean I can’t invite other people to join. It doesn’t have to be strictly a mom’s group either. The plan is to meet once a month, so nothing that should disrupt someones plans too much and I wouldn’t mind finding a place to hold it, but if it means everyone trooping over to my house, whatever. Granted, I know not everyone in my mom’s group is as gungho about paranormal as I am, so there’s going to be a mix of genres that we’ll be reading, but that’s okay. It’s one thing to join a book club with people who I don’t know and reading something I wouldn’t vs joining with friends and finding out why they like certain books. So I have no problem expanding my horizons with different genres as long as I have friends to talk about them with. Besides, there isn’t anything saying that we can’t throw in a paranormal novel every once in awhile either.
So yeah, those are my new projects right now.
