Anonymous
Post 12/14/2025 12:48     Subject: How to find a book club where people read the books

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.
Anonymous
Post 12/14/2025 11:34     Subject: How to find a book club where people read the books

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
Post 12/14/2025 10:20     Subject: How to find a book club where people read the books

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
Post 12/14/2025 10:10     Subject: How to find a book club where people read the books

I’m sure thrrr are like minded old farts like you
Anonymous
Post 12/14/2025 09:56     Subject: How to find a book club where people read the books

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
Post 12/14/2025 09:55     Subject: How to find a book club where people read the books

A virtual one. Better. Because you cut the non book talk
Anonymous
Post 12/14/2025 09:54     Subject: How to find a book club where people read the books

Politics and Prose
Anonymous
Post 12/14/2025 09:34     Subject: How to find a book club where people read the books

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
Post 12/14/2025 09:31     Subject: Re:How to find a book club where people read the books

Try joining a book club at politics and prose
Anonymous
Post 12/14/2025 09:29     Subject: Re:How to find a book club where people read the books

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
Post 12/14/2025 09:27     Subject: How to find a book club where people read the books

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
Post 12/14/2025 09:24     Subject: How to find a book club where people read the books

Did you try asking in the dcum book club forum?
Anonymous
Post 12/14/2025 09:20     Subject: Re:How to find a book club where people read the books

oh dear I wonder if you're talking about our book club
Anonymous
Post 12/14/2025 09:19     Subject: Re:How to find a book club where people read the books

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
Post 12/14/2025 09:15     Subject: How to find a book club where people read the books

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