How did picking several books at once work out?

I like the idea of several books being picked at a time and then picking a month to read them. I didn't read any of them this summer, because it was summer and I got busy with stuff. I read at bedtime usually and that is much later in the summertime and I only read 1 page before I'm asleep.

 

I think the idea was great, but I knew it wouldn't/didn't work for me. I'm a weirdo who "works" better with deadlines. When the books were posted, and everyone is reading random books all willy nilly, I didn't have that push to read by a certain deadline or the extra bump to get it read to be involved. I seemed to be more involved when one book was posted each month. Though I like voting to have the list of books.

I still want/have to read Mrs. Peregrine's Home.... sounds so intriguing, and I saw the movie preview and want to read the book even more.

 

I read them all in no particular, but I did tend to read them all towards the beginning of the summer. I for what everyne else decides - I'm always reading - if multiple books with deadlines are the best go forward. Lets do it.
Who has suggestions for September, October, November - should we do 3 month schedules (or more)
What say you @crystalbella77 ?

 

this is kind of how i feel, i need more of a deadline but i'm willing to go with the majority

 

I have to pick up several at a time. Im a super fast reader. I usually read one fic and one non fic at the same time. I think I have a hard time joining in on book clubs, as I read books others dont seem interested in, and vice versa. I can finish one in less than a day, so I like to have a stack I can grab off of when I finish one. Once in a great while I get a book I just cant get into, so having several to choose from helps in that respect too. Id be so mad if I chose ONE book, then started to read it, and discovered it was not to my liking. I do have hundreds of books here at home, but I guess a new stack of library books makes me happiest!

 

I did the opposite of you, Tiffany: I panicked so I read nothing. Well that's not completely true cuz I started The Circle but then my loan expired. Oops. But on the bright side, I picked up a copy at the library for a buck yesterday! Hopefully I'll finish it soon.

I love the idea of assigning a book to a specific month, for the reasons already mentioned. I need a due date to work toward. Even if we start the convo sooner, readers will have an idea of when to expect a surge in the convo.

 

I missed out on the discussion of the one book I managed to read because I started it after everyone else seemed to be done talking about it. I like the idea of assigning a book to a month.

 

I forget what I read because I too read a lot and often have to go back to my Goodreads page to see if I did or didn't read something. Some of the books weren't available at my county library or the whole MD system, so I didn't bother with them. In the end, I only read one of the 4 picked (The Circle)and that was fine with me. I may look for the other three at an upcoming book sale. For summer, I was ok with this way but for the rest of the year, I'd be happy with going back to one a month.

Cheryl, here is the list of those suggested and the four picked.

 

Definitely a book assigned pr month,don't mind if we choose 3 at the time, but the discussions come very haphazard if we read at different times,and we all read at different speeds too..
@gonewiththewind , why don't you PM crystabella and ask her. The last 2 times some one else has set up the,voting so perhaps she would be pleased.

 

GUYS! I was a total slacker over the summer! I could barely get anything done! I AM SO SORRY! which is ridiculous to say AGAIN cause I apologized already more than once and you're probably tired of them. :/ We had a rough summer and I just could barely get anything done. Now that we have started back up with school and the baby just had his birthday, I should be able to be more scheduled. @gonewiththewind if you want to head it up that's totally fine cause I don't know where we are at the moment, but I am ready to participate however you guys choose!!

I do like choosing a few books ahead of time, but maybe not so many? Maybe like enough for 3 months? or does someone else have a better idea for a way of choosing books? I'll let Cheryl decide how she wants to do it! And please forgive me again!

 

OK! Maybe if we can have a couple people do it together that would work so that if one person disappears there is another who knows where everyone is at?

Can someone fill me in on where you are? Are books picked for the rest of the year? When Jasper naps I will try to catch up and check the forum but if someone can just post it that would be easier I see the poll up top, but unsure what has been picked and read. We can do another poll for September and October (maybe combine since we are late to get started so people have time to purchase and check out?) Let me know what you guys think!

 

Late to this thread, sorry about that! Anyway... Sara's quote above... totally me. I was doing just fine keeping up with the books (even though I didn't always participate that much in the discussions) when there was one a month, but when a bunch were picked at one time, I panicked and quit reading. I honestly don't mind books being picked in advance, but I do love having them assigned to a specific month for reading and discussion. I'm one of those "need a deadline" people.

 

ok Catching up now...How about I go start a nominating thread for Sept and we have that for the rest of Sept and October? If we are pretty speedy we can start reading middle of the month and have a month and a half for this one?

I'll go back to how I was doing it in the Spring. I will post a nominating thread for a bit and then we can vote for 1 week and anyone who wants to read more is certainly welcome too, but i think the majority of us were a bit overwhelmed with the lots of books picked at once? You are welcome to nominate books that didn't get picked for one month and books from ANY genre. I think a lot of us read lots of different things. There are probably going to be books picked that you don't like (has happened with me for sure) but it gives everyone a voice this way and there isn't any perfectly fair way to do it other than voting. I personally like reading lots of different types of books so I will vote for all kinds of different things.

Middle of October I will do a November nominating thread and we can vote the last week and so on for every month? Unless we just want one book for Nov/Dec for the holidays?

@gonewiththewind I will tag you when I need something stickied to the top! I don't have those powers