I've been approached about adding more persons to the Reading Group selectors.
A little background. For most of its history, the Reading Group has been [looking for the right verb here] done by one person.
Mark kicked it off. And looked after it for quite some time and very well.
Kracalactaka filled the gap admirably for a while and then
Movielover took over for a good long run. Then
Crash Ryan took up the Mantle. There was then a gap of about a month. Some of us noticed that. Crash had got rather busy at the time. As you do. So I volunteered.
It seemed to me that at any given time there should be one person co-ordinating the Reading Group, but I also liked the idea of having 'Guest' selectors.
Next step was to have
Robb and I alternate. Then I gave a 'guest' selection to
Andrew. He and Robb decided that they would share Robb's slot. Robb can at times be very busy. Unlike some of us, he is still working professionally.
So
my preference is to leave it at that. One slot, my selection or my one-off guest spot, and the next slot either Robb or Andrew or whoever they like. Anything more, to my mind, is too complicated to keep track of. Comment on Mark's 'rules' from the pioneer post. 1) Every Monday a book is chosen. At the moment we are concentrating on "standard" US comicbooks. If there is demand then it would be really cool to set up other groups for pulp/non-english etc. But we are initially running with US comics.
Running with that, there have been attempts to review non-english books. So, maybe if there was somebody interested, we could start a new thread say, 'Non-English reading group'
2) One particular story in the book is chosen as the focus of the discussion, but feel free to talk out other stories/pages or the cover. Or related topics
Robb and I have generally commented on the whole book, but, for mine, anybody joining in is free to comment on anything in or about the book. [No bad language tho!]
but it is planned that once we are "bedded" in Group members get to pick the books.
To that end, at the top of the Reading group Posts,we now have a pinned thread,
'Put your Reading Group suggestions here.' Please use it and we will attempt to use your suggestions.
It seems at the moment, we should look at Westerns for a while.
On my last point, please give me feedback.When I came on board, the time between selections had gotten longer. I also thought that a decent period of time might be needed to do justice to each selection. So I decided on every 3 weeks. I would prefer not to do one every week,but maybe every two weeks?
Please let me know.
Also, I would prefer to approach people personally to ask if they would like to be a guest selector, but if you would like a slot please use the '
Put your Reading Group selections here' Thread to notify myself or Robb.
Cheers!