Some More Friendly Suggestions:
1. Form a committee of folks to get lay the foundation. The committee needs to decide on various genres to be read.
2. Committee asks for all interested participants to let them know. From interested participants, gather a list of leaders. Some months, you might have more than one leader.
3. Monthly leaders need to lead titillating book discussions. They ask probing questions. Not, who was your favorite character and why ONLY but questions like IF YOU HAD TO HAVE A CONVO with Zora from Disappearing Acts at any point in the story what would you have told her? *former English teacher speaking here*
4. Participants need to PARTICIPATE.
5. Set ground rules for discussions, i.e. respecting folks' opinions.
6. Have fun; also what I would suggest: say that for August you read Family by J. California Cooper; the leaders should suggest other titles similar to Family like Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs, Our Nig by Harriet Wilson, etc.
7. Have titles that men would like to read as well.
I highly recommend a planning committee for organization and less headache.
