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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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[–] 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!

[–] 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.

[–] hamtron5000@vegantheoryclub.org 3 points 1 month ago

i like the idea of a book club where we just share what we've been reading and would love to participate! or even if we all decide to read the same thing, i just like getting recommendations from new folks about things that i might not have heard of or thought about. so i guess my vote would be 2 or 3 above.

[–] SwineBearingViolence@vegantheoryclub.org 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Maybe have a suggested theme but don't make it mandatory so if someone just happens to be hyperfixated on something, they can talk about it even if it doesn't fit.

[–] hamid@vegantheoryclub.org 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yes, this is my thinking exactly. I am not reading anything on topic right now but want to post about it when I finish

[–] SwineBearingViolence@vegantheoryclub.org 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A good theme for the next month could be "strategy" since this is a theory instance after all.

[–] Well@vegantheoryclub.org 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How to Argue With a Meat Eater by Ed Winters would be a great read for that theme.

[–] SwineBearingViolence@vegantheoryclub.org 1 points 1 month ago

it's only ever been sent like three or four videos from Ed and they were all rather bad. It's always possible the people who sent those recommendations just had terrible taste but nonetheless it has an aversion.

it would be happy to hear your thoughts if you read it, or have read it, once the month comes around. That said, it finds that convincing people to be vegan has gotten easy enough, and it usually has very little to do with forming good arguments or whatever. Where a lot of vegans seem to be lacking is the rest of the strategy. Okay, you've convinced a few folks to be vegan. Now what? Tons of different vegan organizations have tried developing their own strategies, like Anonymous for the Voiceless, or Vegan Effective Altruist orgs, or DxA, and their failures are well-documented. So what should we try instead, knowing that those are dead ends?

But that's just its own interest. it's happy to hear about what others end up reading or what they make of it.

[–] SwineBearingViolence@vegantheoryclub.org 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Starting today, right? Do you need someone else to post?

[–] hamid@vegantheoryclub.org 1 points 1 month ago

Starting whenever! Sorry I actually got sidelined by my work-life and forgot again. Thankfully tofu eater posted something and I'm going to share what I've been reading there.

Please feel free to post whatever you want in the community to keep it going, I appreciate it.

[–] hamtron5000@vegantheoryclub.org 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

i did create a post about what we're reading, but i realize now that might be stepping on toes so if so, i apologize. let me know and i can take it down in favor of whatever we collectively decide we'd like to see.

[–] hamid@vegantheoryclub.org 2 points 1 month ago

I am a virtual entity with no toes of which to step on, thanks for posting!