To recap from today’s earlier cafe diaries. . .
The other day, in this diary. . .LINK. . .BooMan leveled with us about the financial challenges of running this beloved blog. If you didn’t read his diary then, I hope you will now.
One idea that came out of it: run Powell’s Bookstore advertising. We’re big readers here, right? So why not direct our book buying dollars to a place that will benefit this blog? All the better that Powell’s is a an independent book store and a unionized, very Blue company.
That led to a second idea: Let’s have a regular BooMan Book Club in conjunction with Powell’s. We’ll pick a book having to do with politics/current events/history. We’ll get our copies from Powell’s, using the links on this site. We’ll all read it at the same time and then have a rollicking good discussion and arm wrestling about it.
* It looks as if Saturday is the majority choice
- We should probably still discuss a little more whether we want to do a complete book once a month, or possibly read a few chapters a week and discuss weekly. What say you?
- We have some suggestions for names for the bookclub. Please add any more if you have them. I’ll poll us on that later.
- Now for our first book.
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