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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Politics and Prose

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!”

Try joining a book club at politics and prose

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.

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.

Did you try asking in the dcum book club forum?

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

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.

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