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Let's restart the book club!

I think instead of picking one book and sticking with it we should post what we are currently reading and do book report threads.

The goal is to create recommendations on what to read and hopefully one of the other members will read and add to the thread.

I have a few ideas but nothing firm, please add some more ideas

  1. Biweekly Short Story Club - Pick a short story and read it and post discussion in the threads

  2. Monthly themes?

  3. A standard book club report template?

  4. Don't change anything and just restart?

Let me know what you think!

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[โ€“] FrostyTrichs@walledgarden.xyz 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Can I just use this post to randomly talk about something book related since I don't know where else to do it?

I was recently gifted the latest book in a series that I'm very excited to read but I had to promise to wait to read it until my surgery recovery. "Camino Ghosts" by John Grisham.

"Camino Island" is the first book, "Camino Winds" is the second. I had no idea there was a third coming out and I was delighted to receive it as a surprise from someone who knows how much I enjoyed the first two. The plot isn't the typical Grisham topics, and I found it easy to fall in love with the characters. Most of the story follows the life of Bruce, a bookstore owner in Florida who has a love of trading in rare and forbidden books. From there you'll get to meet all kinds of colorful characters from fellow book enthusiasts to wannabe and washed up authors at "parties" that are mostly drunken bitching and gossip sessions.

They are wonderful reads and I'm very hopeful the latest addition continues that trend!

[โ€“] hamid@vegantheoryclub.org 3 points 1 month ago

I think guilty pleasure and easy, plot driven reads have a space for sure. I'll check them out I haven't read a Grisham book in years. I used to pick them up before long train rides to Boston or DC when I had a different job.

On an aside, growing up I used to really love Michael Crichton books but the climate denier stuff at the end of his career is mega cringe.