GC's Book Club: October's Read -- Getting Mother's Body

[FLKING]

Count me in as well. As for suggestions on what books to read...how about Brothers and Sisters by BeBe Moore Campbell.

[1browngirl]

Originally posted by Im_just_me
I'd love to join a book club. My suggestion for the first book is Married Men by Carl Webber. Has anyone else read this book? All of his books are excellent!!!

Im just me, I read that book and LOVED IT!!! I loved his latest book too, Baby Mama Drama, might I suggest we read that one or what about Eric Jerome Dickey's The Other Woman....?

[1browngirl]

Originally posted by FLKING
Count me in as well. As for suggestions on what books to read...how about Brothers and Sisters by BeBe Moore Campbell.

That's a good book as well, its been a while since I read it.

[Gina1201]

Okay I have an idea for how we can start the book club. Please let me know how you feel.

I say that we start the book club in August. This will give us all more than enough time to buy/find the book.

Each month should have a different book leader. She(or he) will be responsible for letting us know at the BEGINNING of the month what book to read. OR she or he can give us a choice of books to read and then as a group we can collectively vote on what book to read.

We can then take the two middle weeks of the month to read the book. Discussion of the book can take place during the last week of the month.

We can either use this thread as the discussion thread OR start a Book Club on Yahoo!!

Everyone, please reply with your thoughts.

[CrimsonTide4]

Gina,

Thanks for taking the initiative to spearhead this initiative. I know The Professor had began a book club on GC back in 2002 but the ball was dropped.

How about just starting a new thread for each book you all read because you never know 2 years from now someone might do some searching and find a thread on a book and bring it back to the top to reignite the flames of discussion.

I will be back later with ideas if I have any. I was MIA with company in town.

Also JUST A FRIENDLY SUGGESTION, vary your book topics -- fiction, non-fiction, etc.

[treblk]

I wanna join.
But I agree with CT4, can we mix it up a bit and read some non-he say, she say, they say, he done did me wrong, she's out of controll..type books.

sorry..I digress

[Gina1201]

I'm game for reading almost anything. Does anyone have suugestions on the first book? My nod goes to E. Lynn Harris' new book. I believe it comes out this week or next week.

[Im_just_me]

1BrownGirl, I read Baby Mama Drama also. That was a good read, too. I can't wait for the new one that comes out in Jan. 2004.

Another good book that I'd like to suggest for the first one is EJDickey's Liar's Game. Its a real good read.

Also, lets decided who is going to lead each month. That can make things a lot smoother in deciding the first book...

[OOhsoflyDELTA#9]

a monthly leader would be good...that way everyone would get a chance to pick a book....I also agree that we shouldn't just read the typical "AA fiction paperbacks" ya know "Baby Mama this, Cheatin that.....I'm an avid reader but I try to read books with a little more substance also....authors like Naylor, Cooper, and Morison.....plus non-fiction is also good....so who's going to be the first leader???? (whoever mentioned E. Lynn's new book...thats a good choice!!!)

[CrimsonTide4]

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.

[treblk]

hmmm CT4, have you done this kinda stuff before

[Im_just_me]

CT4, you seem to have the whole planning committee thing locked DOWN...

Are you going to be busy as to where you can't head this book club? Since you already have what to do in mind, I think that you would be a great person to head this up.

[CrimsonTide4]

Thanks Im_Just_Me for your flattering words.

I have been a part of several book clubs and of course am an AVID READER. I do not want to HEAD the committee or what not, I see that others in this thread would be a valuable part of the book club planning and implementation. I just don't want to see the book club sit idle for months with tons of "ooh let's do this" and very little action. A lot of great ideas have been born, but no one actually taking ideas and putting them into place.

Everyone keeps reading the thread and saying what books they want to read, but very few have offered to put together a definite plan or what not.

If any more assistance is needed, please let me know. I definitely will contribute to convos about book of month, but I think others are just as qualified to put together a GC Book Club that won't fall by the wayside after one month.

[lovelyivy84]

I usually dont have anything to add to these threads because my favorite genre is sci-fi, but I recently had this book given to me and LOVED it. Just wanted to suggest a book to you readers:

THe No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith. The book is set in Botswana and the protagonist is the most amazing black African woman.....

it was a great read that just raised questions about the author...

[delph998]

Count me in!