Book Rec/Club/Chat of Greatness! (We hope!)
UPDATE - Thanks so much everyone for your responses! I am quite overwhelmed with how positive everyone has been about this, I honestly thought we'd only get maybe a dozen people interested tops. So thank you! Also thanks very much for all your comments - there are definitely many things to think about which I had foolishly not considered, so thanks for bringing them to my attention. I will work on it.
Right now I think the most important thing to do is to talk to Sarah about it, as they are her recs and I think everyone has said they'd love it if she would be able to participate in some way. However as you all know she is immensely busy on her very exciting book tour at the moment, which I hope lots of you are going to be able to meet her on. So if you would all be really kind and patient and hold on until Sarah gets back and has the time to deal with things like this, I would be very grateful. I just don't want to overwhelm her when she has more important and official things like book promotion to think about!
Thank you all SO much for the awesome feedback, and I will keep you updated! I don't know if the poll will still work after I've edited this, but if it does then please do keep voting!
As you may remember (although it was in the comments section so maybe not!) a little while ago shortly after the release of TDL, brimtoast had the wonderful idea of a fandom book club which met to discuss books recced by Sarah. Those that saw it seemed to think it was an excellent idea, but nothing came of it at the time.
However, we were talking in the chat this evening (this morning...) about what a great idea it actually was and how much we'd enjoy it and think the rest of the fandom might enjoy it as well. So I thought I had better come and canvas opinion to find out whether lots of people would like it or whether it'd just be the two of us chatting enthusiastically in an echoing and cobwebby chat. I'm sure it would be fun, but the fun would exponentially increase if there were more people there!
To this end, I have been efficient and created a poll to find out whether people would be interested in such an event (which would hopefully morph into a proper club if a success!) and if they were, to start working out the logistics.
So if you wouldn't mind all please taking a few minutes to fill out the poll below, I'd be terribly grateful!
Thank you very much my fellow fish, and I hope you are all having a lovely day. :)
ETA - Whoops, I appear to have confused people mightily with my time question. All I meant was tell me what time of day is best for you and make sure you tell me which time zone and that it is the right one. So someone in the UK might say 'any time after 4pm BST', whereas someone somewhere else *is bad with timezones* would specify for their own region. Although conversion into UK time is fine! Sorry, I included the BST example for clarity and it just seems to have confuzzled!
Poll
(As an important note, this would most definitely be a book club sort of chat, which means that there absolutely will be spoilers taking place. So when selecting the book you'd like to read, please do make sure it is one you have or intend to read, or one which you would not mind being spoiled for. After all, you have the chat once everyone has read the book so that we can all discuss it thoroughly!)
If you have any comments or suggestions to make this more awesome, please do make them! Thanks guys.
~Hannah
Right now I think the most important thing to do is to talk to Sarah about it, as they are her recs and I think everyone has said they'd love it if she would be able to participate in some way. However as you all know she is immensely busy on her very exciting book tour at the moment, which I hope lots of you are going to be able to meet her on. So if you would all be really kind and patient and hold on until Sarah gets back and has the time to deal with things like this, I would be very grateful. I just don't want to overwhelm her when she has more important and official things like book promotion to think about!
Thank you all SO much for the awesome feedback, and I will keep you updated! I don't know if the poll will still work after I've edited this, but if it does then please do keep voting!
As you may remember (although it was in the comments section so maybe not!) a little while ago shortly after the release of TDL, brimtoast had the wonderful idea of a fandom book club which met to discuss books recced by Sarah. Those that saw it seemed to think it was an excellent idea, but nothing came of it at the time.
However, we were talking in the chat this evening (this morning...) about what a great idea it actually was and how much we'd enjoy it and think the rest of the fandom might enjoy it as well. So I thought I had better come and canvas opinion to find out whether lots of people would like it or whether it'd just be the two of us chatting enthusiastically in an echoing and cobwebby chat. I'm sure it would be fun, but the fun would exponentially increase if there were more people there!
To this end, I have been efficient and created a poll to find out whether people would be interested in such an event (which would hopefully morph into a proper club if a success!) and if they were, to start working out the logistics.
So if you wouldn't mind all please taking a few minutes to fill out the poll below, I'd be terribly grateful!
Thank you very much my fellow fish, and I hope you are all having a lovely day. :)
ETA - Whoops, I appear to have confused people mightily with my time question. All I meant was tell me what time of day is best for you and make sure you tell me which time zone and that it is the right one. So someone in the UK might say 'any time after 4pm BST', whereas someone somewhere else *is bad with timezones* would specify for their own region. Although conversion into UK time is fine! Sorry, I included the BST example for clarity and it just seems to have confuzzled!
Poll
(As an important note, this would most definitely be a book club sort of chat, which means that there absolutely will be spoilers taking place. So when selecting the book you'd like to read, please do make sure it is one you have or intend to read, or one which you would not mind being spoiled for. After all, you have the chat once everyone has read the book so that we can all discuss it thoroughly!)
If you have any comments or suggestions to make this more awesome, please do make them! Thanks guys.
~Hannah