B is for… Book Club
Twitter Book Club
Ever so occasionally I have a bright idea!
Recently I have been wondering if there is a twitter book club – where we can swop books with each other. I’ve been trawling through twitter but haven’t found one, so I am now thinking about setting one up.
Oooooh I wonder if the handsome and wise Richard Madeley @richardm56 would be our twitter #bookclub patron….
So, please could you let me know if you would be interested in a twitter book club (think #secretpostclub but, not secret, and with books….) can you comment below to let me know:
1) If you’d be interested.
2) Would you prefer to list books you’d like and books you have available to swop and then be paired up with someone.
3) Would you prefer to just be allocated a person to send a book to – and someone else be allocated to send a book to you? ie – you would receive a random book of any genre.
4) Any other suggestions?
OBVIOUSLY we will need a #bookclub badge which I am wondering if the lovely @SecretDadsDiary would be able to make for us? *cough* hint hint
Let me know what you think guys xx
Hint taken. I’ll see what I can come up with.
You are super duper x
What sort of badge do you want? Text-based, picture, logo….?
shall I give you a really crap brief and expect you to work a miracle?
Well, well Mrs Hall, you are just bursting with good ideas. Can you try and think of one that can make us millions. xxxxxxxxxx
lol – hello husband! xx
I’m in! molly We need to define what kinds of genres we want. For instance, I don’t want to swap gory books or sci-fi. I like Jane Austeny things. molly
Hi,
I love the idea of a book club, not sure how i would like it to work so would go with the flow but i would like to say i have dyslexia so i can be very very slow at reading, but do love a good book….
I like both options, kinda think it’d be good to talk about what books you like and dislike as well so if you just get a random book it’d be great if you actually wanted to read it ya know?
Hi Husband! I loves your wifey!
Love the idea!! Have a huge pile if great books that need another read!! Count me in xxx
I’m in! 🙂 Maybe it could work like a wish list of 5-10 books. And you would also have a list of what you have to swap. Also need to consider postage as hardback books sometimes cost £5.00 to post. If you don’t have a wish list you could specify genre ie biography, historical fiction etc Would we have to write a review of it afterwards too?
Oh god no! no reviews, have enough of those at work ;o)
So just a cool book swapshop! 🙂 sounds good.
hiya! came across this via @himupnorth on twitter. sounds like an excellent idea! although i like the idea of just being sent random books, i know most people probably wouldn’t so genrés/wish lists would probably work best! Paula.
Hi Paula, thanks for comment – looks as tho some kind of ‘preferences’ are the way to go. Will get back to everyone once I’ve come up with something more concrete. I never know what to do with books – I gave away around 100 in December but have since acquired more! x
I’m up for it cheaper than buying new!!
I would vote for listing genres you don’t like and then the random partner sends something as a surprise…
not that many genres are there? classic, chick lit, horror, historic, romantic, “naughty”, vampire, teenage, kids…
good idea – seems to combine best of both worlds x
I think the 3rd option would be good. It might encourage me to read something I would never normally pick up
I’m in a book group, its fab. Part of the best bit is actually discussing the book afterwards. Its interesting, the different things people take from the same text and often a book we hate reading offers great discussion opportunities. Downside, the average age of the group I’m in though is about 65 and its all women (and you know me).
I got all excited when I saw this, currently I use the library, they offer a great service to bookgroups. I’ve been toying with the idea of a less mainstream reading group. I like your thinking batman. Let me know what happens.