BIC book club!

[prettyinpa]

Some of us here have expressed an interest in a book club, myself, @mermadelove, @LCResz, @ZombieMetroAnt, @Mcakes. If you'd be interested in joining, reply below. My initial thought was to mail the books around but if it means that some people can't participate, then I'm all for dropping that requirement. I'd love this to be a place where we nominate our favorite book and others can read it and comment. Something fun for the new year!  ETA: the booklist:

1. Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng (16)
1. Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie (16)
3. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (13)
4. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (11)
4. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (11)
4. Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie (11)
7. Exit West by Mohsin Hamid (10)
7. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (10)
7. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (10) Discussion begins 8-13.
7. The Wedding Dress by Rachel Hauck (10) Discussion begin 9-2.
11. The Fault in our Stars by John Green (9) Time to discuss 9-26
11. The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (9) Now discussing below.
11. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (9)
11. What Happened by Hilary Clinton (9) Now discussing below.
11. Fall of Giants by Ken Follett (9) Start reading now.
11. The Woman on the Orient Express by Lindsay Ashford (9)
11. milk and honey by Rupi Kaur (9)
18. A Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (8)
18. Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty (8)
18. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (8)
18. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (8)
18. Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence (8)
18. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen (8)
18. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (8)
18. The Paper Magician by Charlie Holmberg (8)
18. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien (8)
18. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo (8)
18. Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman (8)
18. The White Queen by Phillipa Gregory (8)

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Participants:

PrettyinPA

AlexaSteph

Beadshopgirl

LCResz

Kim888

SoBeautiful

Fatimamummy

ZombieMetroAnt

PalomaFoster

k617

bakeamuffin
Susubee
Skcfan
Lazybeautybeast
SpaceLlama
greeneyedgirl107

Mermadelove
Mcakes
Aaliaa
Serenely
Myinsidevoice
MissPuff
juliehnguyen
lmi82
Knowledgebeauty
Titian06
quspork
darlyndar
KellW
misscg
EuniceO
Elles117
ClassicallyFab
ShiraBT
melanito
Heylady14
ChicagoEngineer
Imightneedthis
PrettyPaint
rachface2921

[GodivaMoon]

What a great idea, love this thread! I love to read and been reading a lot more now that I'm on break. But some of my favorites to reread are...The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury, Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey, Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie, The Wayfarer Redemption by Sara Douglass, Black Jewels trilogy by Anne Bishop, Naked in Death by JD Robb, Shantaram by David Gregory Roberts, Blood and Gold by Anne Rice, The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell, Dragons of Autumn Twilight by Tracy Hickman and Margaret Weis, The Tea Rose by Jennifer Donnelly, Ghosts in the Snow by Tamara Siler Jones, The Ring by Deborah Chester, Myrren's Gift by Fiona Mcintosh, and tons others. Love reading poetry too like Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allen Poe, Yeats, Basho, and Shakespeare...

[WhereYouStand]

I love the dark jewels series by Anne Bishop !!! I’m glad to see I’m not the only fan here of that Series!

[SpaceLlama]

@GodivaMoon I love Ray Bradbury! One of my favourite books of all time is The Illustrated Man. I would be down to read anything of his. 😄

[SchylarR]

For those people in to darker reads, Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov is a classic and is definitely my favorite book of all time (so insanely unsettling)!

[fieldsofclover]

BIC Russian Lit book club is coming together 😂

[SchylarR]

Win

[mermadelove]

@SchylarR  Oh yes that was a great read! Read that in high school!

[prettyinpa]

Looks like we have quite a lively group here! I don't understand how your book selecting thing works, @fieldsofclover, could you explain to a computer illiterate (me) how this works or someone else suggest how to choose a book? I like the lists that members have been posting (I'm a huge Harry Potter fan, also I love Alice in Wonderland!) So if we can figure out how to choose a book, then let's get started, I want to add my book to my Amazon shopping cart. I can't get to the library until my foot is better, it isn't as handicapped accessible as I need, but I got a couple of Amazon gift cards burning a hole in my pocket!

[fieldsofclover]

@prettyinpa Goodreads is a popular book logging/review website... they have a group function (groups can be public or invite-only), and inside the groups you can have polls and conversation threads. BIC doesn't allow outbound links, so this way we could make a group and put any polls there (monthly theme, book suggestions, voting on next book, etc) so you're not getting 40,000 PMs of votes or suggestions... all the discussion can still live here.

[Aaliaa]

I wonder if we should keep post-reading discussions to this forum? All those uninterested might mind hearing about books in a beauty community. Goodreads is a great suggestion for the organizational part @fieldsofclover! Anyone interested to join in the future can join there.

[GG84]

I love Good Reads, its a great idea!

[fieldsofclover]

I'm happy to start a GR group and tinker with that part if you like the idea, I just didn't want to steal any of your thunder!

[prettyinpa]

@fieldsofclover- If the rest of the group is ok with the Goodreads method, that's fine with me. If people want to send me book lists and have me choose 1 title via a random number method, that's fine too. I just don't want to be cluttering up people's mailboxes with spam for this project. I want the group to have a say in how this works, I'm not the queen, merely the facilitator to get the group started.

If we want to have subgroups like Russian Lit, Mystery/suspense, Popular titles, etc, and people choose what group they want to be in, that's fine, we shouldn't force everyone to read something they know isn't their cup of tea.

[fieldsofclover]

@prettyinpa Yeah I definitely don't want any arrangement that requires email either... with this people could just go and check it when they feel like it, or when there's a post here prompting it. I think you can use your Facebook or Amazon account to log in there now too (or make one the old-fashioned way), which would simplify things for some folks. Just let me know if it's something we want to try.

[mermadelove]

@prettyinpa  ALICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 One of my faves of all time!!! ALso love HP. 

[darlyndar]

@prettyinpa I’m in!!!! I was just talking about how I need to read again! I used to be such an avid reader but my boys and sports take up all my time! Lol

[mermadelove]

WOW!!!  ?THis is awesome and HUGE!!

HAs anyone mentioned Life of PI or The Hours yet? Those two were AMAZING!!!

[fieldsofclover]

This is fantastic. I'm in!

(Also, Goodreads has poll tools for their groups... a private BIC group there might make the no-outbound-links thing easier?)

[GG84]

@YES!!!!! What a great idea @fieldsofclover

[Tamara76]

Such an awesome idea, @prettyinpa!   As others have mentioned, reading has been put on a back burner for me, too.  I am ashamed to admit I’ve been reading the same book (Inferno by Dan Brown) for 4 months because I feel like I never have time to read - That is the kind of book I used to devour in a single weekend!

I may unofficially read along with y’all at first and lurk and then officially join you later, if that’s o.k.  💗

[prettyinpa]

@Tamara76- Sure, you can join in any capacity you have time for. Actual signing up isn't necessary, anyone can chime in, I just thought a list of us all in the IP would help people keep track of who's who. I am thrilled with the number of participants, I thought maybe just a couple of ladies would be joining us, that everyone else would be too busy. This is great!