http://www.dystel.com/blog/2012/06/organized-nerdiness/ Mon, 26 Jun 2017 15:15:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.15 http://www.dystel.com/blog/2012/06/organized-nerdiness/comment-page-1/#comment-34024 Mon, 04 Jun 2012 04:28:12 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=7592#comment-34024 I love that you are cracking the whip on it being a book club not a gossip club. I’ve had one fall into that and it was so frustrating!
I’m in a great book club now. Here are a couple of things that we do:
1- Take turns hosting/picking the book. It’s fun to go to different members homes and having different people choose the books has exposed me to authors/genres I might not have normally chose on my own.
2- Even if you are taking turns hosting, have a clear leader. He/she could remain constant or change every year. The host should plan to lead the discussion, but the group leader should get things started and bring the conversation back to the book if it should start to get off track.
Hope these tips help. Have fun!

]]> http://www.dystel.com/blog/2012/06/organized-nerdiness/comment-page-1/#comment-33939 Fri, 01 Jun 2012 19:47:46 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=7592#comment-33939 I don’t have a book club, and you didn’t exactly ask this, but how I make sure I read plenty for fun is every January, I sign up on Goodreads for their book challenge. You pick the number of books you think you’ll read during the year (125 for me this year), and then after you read them, you just add them to your account (you don’t have to actually rate them) and it keeps track of them, as well as your pace. Like it will say, “You’ve read 43 books so far. You’re 2 books behind.” I’m a nerd (too?), so I don’t like to get behind! If I get too far behind, I read a bunch of short MG! Haha!

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