Book Clubs

[Corinne]

So, I'm curious. How many of us are in a book club? Is it online or in "real life?"

[Annette Laing]

Not in any book clubs. I would be too afraid of the "smirk factor": If somebody waxed lyrical about a book I thought was drivel, I might smirk.
I'm also not very good at reading a particular book on demand, and to a deadline, especially if it promises to be a smirk-worthy book.
Plus I'm not a very good joiner. I bet you had figured that out already.
Perhaps I ought to return to my teapot now? :-)

[lisa]

I wouldn't worry about the smirk factor. I smirk all the time, I even out and out chuckle at some of the books nominated, at some peoples comments. The others in the group know I mean no offense, I just don't hide my feelings. In one group, actually the one I was in with Corinne, but she might not have joined it yet, a member suggested a Danielle Steele book for the group. I about died laughing. I thought it was a joke. It turned out she was a newbie and was serious =)

[Antonette]

IRL book club. It's a group of Mom friends, and we read a variety of books. I am also on Shelfari, and will occasionally jump into a group or two there.

[Nicole]

I started a book club IRL about 3 1/2 years ago and I am also in another book club that meets in my neighborhood. I love talking about the books because it clues me in on what I thought about a book and why, and I love hearing different opinions and sometimes gaining new insights into a book I might not have like so much, or having new ideas to explore in the ones that I did.

[Simsav]

I am still in the book group that we started at my last job, all bar one of us has left the company but we still meet up once and month to discuss books with a meal thats from the country of the author or the setting! It's great and hopefully will last another 3 years!

[Angie Fox]

I have to admit, one of the main reasons I started a Book Club was to have one night of the month where I can get out of the house for a girl's night. But it's turned into so much more than that.

For one thing, I'm reading all kinds of books I never would have picked up on my own. I read mostly paranormal romance, historicals, contemporary romance and cozy mysteries. But now I'm reading memoirs, more "literary" books (and I do despise that term) and thrillers. It's been a lot of fun. Plus, you just can't beat that night out with the girls. Now if I could only get my husband to stop calling it, "wine club"...

[Veronica Arreola]

I've been in a book group for maybe 7 years now. It's a flesh & blood group that meets at a local indie feminist bookstore in Chicago. It ebbs & flows, but it's still rolling.

[Susan]

I am in 2 face to face book club. I have been on a blog that we were sent books and at a certain date the bogger would write her thoughts in and then the rest of us would weigh in. I am not sure if I like this because it seems like it is one sided.
Barnes and Noble does have a online book club. I have checked it out and seems like this is the best kind. Maybe sometime in the future it may work... I either did not find the right one. I would like to see online book clubs have a discussion. Not just leaving comment. I feel like these kind of book clubs don't fulfill the discussion. My son, has IM where they keep answering back. This may be the right way to have a book discussion.
There is a book club online that is on blogradio.com. You may want to check this out. The moderator has a blog called bookclubgirl.com. She sent us all books for this book club. The book is called The Madonnas of Lenigrad by Debra Dean.
It will be on on this coming Thursday @ 7PM. The author is going to be present. All of us will be discussing the book. I am not sure how this is going to work. This is the first time I am doing this. You may want to get a copy and try it out.
The book is a little over 200 pgs.

[jaymoore5]

I'm a member of Bookmooch.com. I swap books the books I want to get rid of for something I want to read. They have a pretty lively discussion group.

Jerome

[Wendy]

I belong to a bunch of book clubs through Yahoo groups. I don't participate in any face to face clubs because I live in a very rural area and to my knowledge there is not one up here (I suppose I could start one of my own, but I'm pretty busy!).

[Meg Waite Clayton]

Me! In person and online! I have a neighborhood group which is called The Wednesday Sisters (which is, not coincidentally, the title of my new novel, though the group took the books name rather than vice versa). I also go to local bookstore book groups, and chat on line at places like Readerville.com and Librarything.com.

[chrisbookarama]

I'm moderator for an online book club: The Classics Club. We read a selected book a month. We've been at it for 4 years now!