How to find a book club where people read the books

[Anonymous]

I want to join a book club where people really read the books. Where should I look? I live in McLean if that matters.

[Anonymous]

Haha. I’m not sure but I have noticed that local libraries have book clubs so I would guess that you might find more serious readers there.

[Anonymous]

oh dear I wonder if you're talking about our book club

[Anonymous]

Did you try asking in the dcum book club forum?

[Anonymous]

Some of the independent book stores have clubs, like Fonts and One More Page Books, but then you don’t have the social aspect.

I also would like to have a social book club where people read the book. Mine does not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:oh dear I wonder if you're talking about our book club

same here. I can't keep up anymore now that it's not pandemic times.

[Anonymous]

Try joining a book club at politics and prose

[Anonymous]

Invite people over and offer them no food or beverages, just straight-back chairs set up in a circle. Run the meeting with Robert’s Rules of Order. If they go off-topic or laugh or greet each other, simply poke them with a cattle prod and use your best Professor Umbridge to say,“Heh-HEM!”

[Anonymous]

Politics and Prose

[Anonymous]

A virtual one. Better. Because you cut the non book talk

[Anonymous]

Audit a literature class at any one of the fine universities in the area - most of the ‘club’ will have done the assigned reading, and the discussion should be stimulating.

[Anonymous]

I’m sure thrrr are like minded old farts like you

[Anonymous]

If you want to read classics, I used to do the online groups through the Catherine Project (https://catherineproject.org/). The "General Offerings" are the ones to look for, not the Core Offerings.

Otherwise, I find most book group people to be pretty honest about whether it's a social group or a reading group.

[Anonymous]

Can I join? While my bookclub(s) actually read the book, I've found some of the selections sub par. I don't want to waste my time on that.
We just read The Christmas Bookshop for our December one and it's awful, unless you like Hallmark movies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can I join? While my bookclub(s) actually read the book, I've found some of the selections sub par. I don't want to waste my time on that.
We just read The Christmas Bookshop for our December one and it's awful, unless you like Hallmark movies.

The book club I belonged to would only read crap like Where The Crawdad Sing or any book about WW2 Britain or the Holocaust that had a romance plus a mystery.