The key to any successful club of any sort is #1 organization and #2 Interaction. We are all new to the book club world and we will learn and grow together. What I do know is that anything, if not tended properly whithers and dies. We are starting with a summer long commitment to one book a month, and discussion about it. That gives us 4 books through August. I truly don't want this to be Makayla's book club, I want this to be OUR book club so I'm hoping for a lot of interaction.
The next challenge we have facing us is, how do we decide on discussion topics, and also the speed at which we read? I have a solution that I believe may be workable. I propose that we divide the books into chapters for example - assign Tam chapters 1-2 Angela 3-4 and Kat 5-6 etc... we would each be responsible for finding an element within our chapters and leading the discussion on it. I can divide the number of chapters between the time we have to read it - and individually post the assignments along with a date to (hopefully) have them done by the leader could then comment on that section and we're off and running. I would leave a few days at the end of the month to discuss the book as a whole.
Since we're running on a shortened timeline, I'd like to get the first discussion going as quickly as possible. Next month will operate completely differently, as we have time to pick a book and have it ready to go!
Feedback!! Comment if this will work for you, or if you have another idea!