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Hi there! should i start?

 

1-my theme addition was just an example for showing how it could be, it was completely changeable(so yeah you can trash easter right away. i wouldn't have know what book to suggest anyway xp). you go with the basic theme-author-free and add audiobook and special where you want(so tecnically, by that logic halloween is a special, and you could have another normal theme-choice in november while author skip to january). i will let you decide this one and i will go with whatever you guys choose.

 

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you meant thing we CAN discuss before week 3 right? because those suggestion are for the the first weeks. and well i don't think i have anything else to say here. it's all good

 

3.1 well obviously b) i think it would be nearly impossible finding book none of us has ever read.

3.2 well i asked but i'm conflicted...how about we don't make multiple proposition of books but just 1 new(= that we haven't read) and 1 favourite(= that we have read. also not compulsory)? so we still have a fairly number of suggestion, and it is not like you are sure you end with an already read book, after all it will be put up to vote. but at least there is a chance.

 

ah! right 1.3 theme and author! so for author i name Tara Lain! i really love her

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Yeah, I need to know what you guys think appropriated / off limited to discuss before week 3 , so we can put in the rules. Also thanks for the 1 book from both categories suggestion. I will add it in my next post

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or I'm simply a pervert. That could be the case too xD

 

Yes, you are. And I enjoy that side of you very much. I love your comments. XD

 

Some can be very nice.. and there are a few that are even fluffy & romantic....

 

Porn can be fluffy and romantic too but I don't know, hmm let's be more precise.... do you really want an octopus in your bum?

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Yeah it's ok with me

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. Since we just started I like the shifter theme because there are so many good shifter books and for author Sydney Blackburn.

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It is amazing what you created here. I realized a book club isn't something for someone like me. To participate in a book club means to be a part of it but I am barely here. I didn't have the time to read every post here. And when I log in, which I barely do, the only thing I can manage is to answer to the users who tagged me. I don't even get the chance to answer pm's hence my retreat from this thread. I am sorry guys and I wish everyone a great time and fun here.

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yoyo5 I know how busy you are. How about when everything done ,and we know which book we are going to read I will let's you know. If there is any book you interested and you have some time, can you join us that month?

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For Special theme 1.2 (a) because if we have more months with theme we can even add Halloween as a theme in the theme month sometimes..we know there are lots of books with Christmas theme but others like Halloween, Easter there aren't that many..but if once in a while a great book does pop up in those themes we can just add it in a theme month..but don't need to make Halloween a special permanent theme..but Christmas of course yes..So Christmas should be the only special theme i think..

One genre.. i am going to suggest Mystery and Suspense thriller..i think they are great for discussion

One author..well that's a hard one..lets see an author whose books i haven't read but on my read list... I am suggesting Aleksandr Voinov..

For 2- Discussion - i agree that before third week we should discuss like general information and after third week what we expect to happen..predictions and all that..

For selection process I choose 3.1 (B)..it will take too much time and lots of discussion to find books that none of has read other than new releases and i don't mind re-reading..it lets me see the plot and characters in a different way..and discussing something we read before is a wonderful delight..so yes

For 3.2- of course..what's a book club for if we don't discuss our best reads with everybody..As we can see how Mochi raves about every book she liked and others too including myself sometimes..So, rather than talking on book threads randomly like we all do its best to discuss here..Sharing exactly what we liked about the book we liked and maybe also things like how the plot could have gone differently, i thought this character would be like that..these kind of things, also our frustration about books we didn't like..

and i would also suggest random discussions related to books and authors and not something like "we are talking about this book so can't talk about that book.." and book suggestions to each other i mean no matter how many books we have in our "to read" list we still look for books that will interest us because we are book hungry and we can see how voide and mochi suggest books all the time to everyone so a suggestion discussion will be great i think..and all these in an informal friendly way..and

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thanks for mentioning it to Racheal..i was actually thinking about sending a PM to her about an open ground book discussion that is not only limited to what we are reading together..

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you are putting a lot of effort..A big thanks to you..

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here's my respond

 

 

 

1. i'm still agreed w the rotation

1.1 i wonder if there's any other special events/holidays other than these

1.2 just an fyi. i'm not a christian. so to me, to read anything else on dec is perfectly fine. but bc the majority of you here preferred to have christmas theme on dec, i'm game. i don't mind if it's (a) or (b)

1.3 sure. i'll go w the majority

 

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2. hahaa.. thanks for considering that

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. that's me tho. not sure about others (what others liked to talk about) i liked to be specific on what i wanna know. this way i'll sure if someone already discussed the matters or not. i also mentioned in previous post which one i will put under spoilers & vice versa. cheers

 

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3.1 (a) to me, i'd love to think that this book club as a fresh start. it doesn't matter if i already read the book. the point is this book club is a NEW book club. so any books are should be count in no matters you've read it before or not. so, i think we should consider them.

 

3.1 (b) i'm willing to re-read. this doesn't mean for fave books only. but also books that i found so-so the first time i read it. the idea of book club to me is keep exploring & be out of comfort zone (even it's hard at first lol)

 

3.2 refer to my answer in 3.1 (b), yeah. i don't mind recommend my fave books (ha been waiting for this. yall must read my fave book too hehee..)

 

 

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my recc. (i'm giving 2 for each. if you decided to agree w

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suggestion. if not just pick any one lol)

 

author : JCP (fave), F.E. Feeley Jr. (new)

genre/theme : psychic/paranormal (fave), asexuality (new)

 

 

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dude, it's okay. you can stop by anytime. we're going to read certain books for each month. & if the book is right up your alley, read it & crash here to talk stuff. cheers

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, ah how hard you work for us!! foxy2

 

ok, my answers:

 

1.2 a) for me only Christmas is enough, becuase I have some pretty bad Halloween flashbacks.. would it surprise anybody that I was an akward teen? xD

 

1.3 author: Megan Derr becuase I've been meaning to read something from them in a long long time (apart from Wriggle & Sparkles, which is again, ahem, tentacles xD) & the theme - polygamy I've never read it done really well, so I'm curious to find more.

 

2. no opinion here, I'm pretty sure I will find what to spam this thread about anyway xD

 

3.1 a) if we don't have like 50 members, i think it's pretty realistic to find the book that nobody has read before. so I would vote for that:D

 

but again, if the lovely

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suggested to propose the books that we have read, than maybe it would fun to.. I personally already know what I would suggest in that case then:D:D

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Yes, you are. And I enjoy that side of you very much. I love your comments. XD

You only say that because you're a pervert yourself xD and hey - i'm not complaining, i like that part of you too!:D I really really hope to see you in the book club when you have time..^^

 

 

Porn can be fluffy and romantic too but I don't know, hmm let's be more precise.... do you really want an octopus in your bum?

 

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, for one thing - how is porn an argument?! I mean we all love porn, right? some freaks even like it fluffy O_o

 

as for your question.. ahem.. so WHAT If I DO? well, no, not going to say that xD that would give me a very wrong reputation... besides.. aren't octopus are kind of.. cold? if anything goes into my bum, it should be room temperature at the very least, ideally much hotter xD

 

but, that reminded me of this video I've just watched:

(i swear to god, I have no idea how it got into my Youtube recommended! O_o)

[video=youtube_share;cN4ILklAtDs]

as you can see, they're truly a magical creatures that can perform many things & get into many interesting places..^^ (and apparently also give you crabs O_o)

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Thank you so much, Racheal, for your hard work!

 

Ok, so my thoughts about the last topics of discussion…

1. As I said before I pretty much agree with any theme or author.

I know this whole series by Susi Hawke with holidays as a main theme, but that's all. I remember books about Christmas… Valentine, yes, but not so many. So I prefer a) Christmas and 2 free themes.

My favorite author and theme… That’s hard… I am still so new to BL-novels… Ok, let it be Cardeno C. (my favorite for now). As for theme… You know, I want to read a comedy. Like laughed-so-hard-I-cried kind of :D. That’d be awesome.

2. I think any kind of discussion is fine (without spoilers of course). I guess I won’t be a part of first-3-weeks discussion, ‘cause I read fast and usually don’t like to pause half way, so I will wait for the moment when we will discuss the whole book. Or maybe not if there will be something interesting or outrageous XD. My point is, it’s difficult to predict what we will want to discuss so let’s see how it goes. With one book we may want to discuss the plot (and it will be more appropriate for the end of the month), with another – the main character’s hairstyle (and we will start it from the first day), who knows? :D

3. I am totally fine to re-read the book if it’s necessary, so b)

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Heya All!

I hate making lame excuses, but recently don't have much time to check the forum and you all do such a great job here!

I am ok with reading anything, I'm just not fond of cheating / I've had enough of that IRL, thank you :D /

and poorly written ones. Otherwise, I'm cool with whatever if it looks interesting and not over the top. We can have a different genre each month

Sorry I don't contribute to the discussions much, but I'd read anything you agree to

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Hi everyone!!

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wow, thanks for your hard work :), as for me its hard to choose one as my favourite author, i love so many of them!! As i said im easy, so whatever you guys decide to read then il read as well :) Though my favourite genre/theme whatever is YA :) !!!

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Thank you guys for all the opinions, suggestions, and answers. I will wait one more day to make sure everyone have time to reply before I put everything together

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1. Only Christmas theme is enough for me. Instead Halloween I prefer mistery, don't like scary story at all >_

 

2. I'm agree with what

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suggests

 

3. Prefer books that no one have read yet, but if that impossible then I go with what majority voted

 

Recc : age gaps and no sex/ Asexuality

Cara Dee and N.R Walker

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you're cute bc you dislike scary story ;D

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dude, we're on the same page about cheating. but for this book club, i'm willing to set myself 'on fire' lol also, i expect to see you here, buddy : )

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i can feel the fun already yoo

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Hi guys,

 

I can't believe we come this far ..Let's see what we have now.

 

1. amount of book [1 /month ]

2. Selection Methods for book and theme [vote]

3. Theme : [We goes with Astiara suggestion /w Christmas+ 2 Free theme]

 

For the next 8 months will be

 

June:Theme

July: Author

Aug: Free choice

Sept:Books w/Audio book only

Oct: Theme

Nov: Author

Dec: Christmas

Jan: Free choice

 

 

Discussion Rule

 

The discussion can start from the beginning of the month with spoiler on and some limitation of the contents . In-depth discussions will start from week 3.

 

Here are contents we can discuss before week 3 (thank you voide for the list

 

a. POVs (if there's nothing stated earlier) hell, sometimes i drop a book bc i can't understand the pov. true story

b. writing style

c. book cover (if it's 'interesting' enough lol)

d. behaviour or decision certain characters made

e. prediction of whodunit (if it's a mystery)

f. ship. disclaimer: i'm wholeheartedly a monogamous believer. so please bear w me if i disapprove of your polysomes & bitchin about it lol

g. generally fanboying/fangirling lmao

 

 

5. Selection Rules after go through all of your opinions, I come up with the selection rule.

Please tell me what you think and if everybody agree we will start to vote for themes and then our first book ever

 

Each month each of you can suggest 1 to 2 books : Maximum 2 books/ per person/ month. You can pick from 2 categories

1. book you want to read

2. book have read and want it to be read in the club

 

**Your two books can be both form 1 or both from 2 or each book from each category.

 

I will list all of them and will ask all of you to make your own list for example : if we have 12 suggestions. I will ask you to give all 12 books number 1-12. Start with 1 as the book you want to read the most and go on until the last book with number 12. The first book will get 12 points and last book will get 1 points, and then we will pick the book with highest points for the month.

 

 

I also want to use the same method with Themes and Authors too

 

If everyone ok with every topic above we will vote theme and Authors tomorrow we will pick the first 2 authors and 2 theme that receive most point from you guys .

 

If you have any suggestions, please feel free to let us know.

 

Thank you so much everyone

 

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Sounds good sounds good X] I might not have any suggestions since i belive you guys know more that me about these authors and so. Ill jump on the train when i can read something, Sounds great Racheal *big thumbs up*

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that's pretty impressive Book Club stuff there, thank you so much!! :)

 

So my first suggestion comes: As Meat Loves Salt by Maria McCann

 

I've been intending to read this for a long time, because from what I read from the reviews this is really good but also there is also too much sadness to handle. So, I'm hoping we can shoulder the pain together and it might make reading this one easy if we are together :)

 

 

ps: Oh, I didn't yet check whether the book is available here.

 

edit: oh no, it isn't though.. it seems

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requested this one too about a year ago:)

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edit: oh no, it isn't though.. it seems

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requested this one too about a year ago:)

 

You're welcome ** no worries about how to find the book. As long as we can find it from store, I will take care of it ;D

 

For the details, I will reply all of you together as usual.

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, the savior! :) Why was I even worried? :) Thanks dear!

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wow we're finally at this point! Great work everyone!!

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nothing to say it is all perfect now! XD

Ah by the way since i came to my senses i'm changing my suggestion for the theme(i mean not that i mind if you keep the other also but...xp) and my choice is gay for you/straight to gay books

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awesome! you came up w a system which is far better than me who wanna do 'random number generator' lol i'm totally game w this.

 

 

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oh, buddy. you did not just recc that book.. it has been on my tbr for soooo long. now i couldn't avoided it anymore can i? [already crying]

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Thank you for sorting the rules :)

Btw, do we still get audiobook's month?

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