I’d be more than happy to help lead this! I’m a SAHM with almost no local friends (aka a lot of free-ish time!) but I have never done this before so I don’t know if me doing it solo would be the best!
My thought would be to have voting to select 12 books - maybe pick a category for each month, then have 3 books to vote on from each category? That way we can get a good cross-section of books.
We could look at top lists for 2018 and pick books from there. I've noticed the library app Libby tends to have more recent books. Example, I'm on the waitlist for Milkman, which won the ...er, I think it's the Man Booker Prize last year (Not entirely sure!!).
We could all set a date by which it has to be read and maybe have chapter discussions each week? Whoever is leading the read through could find read through questions about the book to help drive discussion or whatever. It doesn't have to be hugely formal.
So, my library system has free access to ebooks/audiobooks through Hoopla, TumbleBookCloud, or a few other sources, does anyone else have access to something similar?
Maybe a book could be required to be accessible by 9/10 of active participants to be usable or something?
There's a website that has cheap books: www.abebooks.com. Most of the books I've gotten from them seem to come from small local shops that sell through the website. Shipping can take a bit, but it has been worth it to save some money.
We definitely need a leader. We need direction as a group. Even if we only end up with like 5 regular members who discuss that's still a pretty good group discussion size. A lot of books have pre made questions available online to keep the discussions going
Hoopla has free ebooks through your library and, unlike libby, there's not a limited number of copies per library. So it would make it easier for people to get free books.
I like the idea of getting a slate and voting. Maybe we can have a thread for book suggestions for the month, one book per comment, and put the three comments with the most upvotes to a vote?
I’d be more than happy to help lead this! I’m a SAHM with almost no local friends (aka a lot of free-ish time!) but I have never done this before so I don’t know if me doing it solo would be the best!
My thought would be to have voting to select 12 books - maybe pick a category for each month, then have 3 books to vote on from each category? That way we can get a good cross-section of books.
Do it!
We could look at top lists for 2018 and pick books from there. I've noticed the library app Libby tends to have more recent books. Example, I'm on the waitlist for Milkman, which won the ...er, I think it's the Man Booker Prize last year (Not entirely sure!!).
We could all set a date by which it has to be read and maybe have chapter discussions each week? Whoever is leading the read through could find read through questions about the book to help drive discussion or whatever. It doesn't have to be hugely formal.
So, my library system has free access to ebooks/audiobooks through Hoopla, TumbleBookCloud, or a few other sources, does anyone else have access to something similar?
Maybe a book could be required to be accessible by 9/10 of active participants to be usable or something?
There's a website that has cheap books: www.abebooks.com. Most of the books I've gotten from them seem to come from small local shops that sell through the website. Shipping can take a bit, but it has been worth it to save some money.
We definitely need a leader. We need direction as a group. Even if we only end up with like 5 regular members who discuss that's still a pretty good group discussion size. A lot of books have pre made questions available online to keep the discussions going
Hoopla has free ebooks through your library and, unlike libby, there's not a limited number of copies per library. So it would make it easier for people to get free books.
I like the idea of getting a slate and voting. Maybe we can have a thread for book suggestions for the month, one book per comment, and put the three comments with the most upvotes to a vote?