Dear Froggers,
UPDATE! I just realised that polls can’t be updated without going to a whole new diary, so please read this new “poll” and then vote in the comments:
How often shall we convene?
* Once a month to discuss the whole book.
* Every other month
* Read one chapter a week and meet weekly
* Other
Greetings from the midwest, where I feel profoundly grateful this morning that my family and I are dry, sheltered, fed, and safe. I hope you are equally blessed. I wish all of our brothers and sisters in the South could be so fortunate as we. It is, to a great extent, through this blog that we find out the news about them and how we can help them.
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.
I’ll keep this simple, so we can discuss and decide.
I’ll run three polls today:
POLL #1 will run until noon CST: WHICH DAY OF THE WEEK TO HOLD OUR DISCUSSION?
POLL #2 will run from noon to 6 p.m. CST today: FREQUENCY OF BOOK CLUB DISCUSSIONS (every two weeks, every month, every other month, etc.)?
POLL #2 will run all night and it’s the one you really won’t want to miss: WHICH BOOK?
This is a regular cafe day, so we’ll chat as we always do, but if you’re interested in the book club, let us know below what you think about frequency and book choice. I’ll argue for the book I’d most like to read and you guys give it your best for your book choice. I’ll read all your comments and use what you say to guide my next two polls.
Reading, talking to each other, making a little money for BooMan Tribune. . .shouldn’t that be somebody’s idea of heaven? 🙂
I’ll prime the pump for one of the choices in the first poll. As ejmw pointed out in another thread, Saturday is the low traffic day for this site, so maybe that would be a good day to “meet.” (The bookstore will be a its own diary, not a Cafe diary.)
I suggest: You decide.
ONE MORE THING! We need a name. Let’s decide the frequency/day/book today and then I’ll announce them in a diary tomorrow. I’ll run one last poll at that time and we’ll choose a name.