The DFW book club..

BARGAINHUNTER!

Oooh - can I join please? I can request books to be delivered to my local library online for free so I have used Amazon to create a 'wish list' of all the books that I read reviews of and think I would like to read in the future, and then use this list to request them from the library when I want something to read, deleating the book from my Amazon list when I have read the book. I have just logged onto my library account and requested Northern Lights.

Snaggles

Sounds great to me fishface! I'd better start thinking of a choice of book now, ready for when it's my turn. I'll let you know what I think of The Memory Keepers Daughter if I ever make it to the end...lol!

chocaholic110

Ooh, me too. Sounds like a fab idea, as long as you are not all super-clever and want to discuss hidden meanings and allegories (sp?) in books like they did when I did A Level eng. lit! Sometimes I think that the author just writes what he did because it sounds good and not because he actually meant something else but wants you to guess what!

Haven't read Northern Lights, will have to look for it.

Snaggles

Chocaholic, right there with you!

We read Animal Farm at school - apparently it was about Russian politics and there was me thinking it was about talking pigs....:rotfl: :rotfl:

PeachPickle

fishface-69 wrote: »

In the spirit of fairness would suggest that people say the book they want us to do and they can go in order of when people joined if that is OK with people? I just want it to be fair but if anyone has any issues with this please PM me cos this is meant to be fun! Ok so if this goes to plan peachy pickle gets to pick the next book...! People dont have to pick one if they dont want to though...Are people ok with this?

Oh the power, the power! :rotfl: It's a good idea to rotate 'choosers' as it were or we'd probably spend months deciding what we were going to read. I'd suggest we all say what genres we really like, what we really hate and what we're unsure about. Just so that no-one makes me read a book about Robbie Williams or something really... It might give us some clues as to what direction to aim. Maybe we could take it in turns to suggest 3 books, give a little synopsis and let people vote for the favourite? So we could get a little variety and still have a bit of choice. Just an idea, I'm rambling now

So when are we actually discussing Northern Lights? :rotfl: Did I miss that part?

Oh and you're right FF, there's no point wasting time on a guy who isn't right, and he just wasn't. we had some fun but it was never going anywhere. I think he was after someone a bit less independent, and I like the idea of someone not quite so mental :rotfl:

Snaggles

I'm really not very discerning, so I'll read pretty much anything (except Robbie Williams ).

A choice of 3 would be good though, because I'm a bit nervous of making a choice by myself - I'm rubbish at making decisions!

PeachPickle

Oh, and if anyone is actually wanting to buy the Northern Lights book, you can get the trilogy boxset halfprice online at WH Smiths at the moment (I've actually bought it for someone as a christmas present, well organised me!) and if you select delivery to store it's free. So that's £11 for all three books. Bargain

http://www.whsmith.co.uk/WHS/Go.asp?ISBN=1407104160&DB=220&Menu=Books

Not that I'm recommending buying books for every month of this, just that I knew there was a deal to be had!

In_Search_Of_Me

hehe pp! Love the BF (x!) comment!! If you want to give people a choice of 3 thats fine but bearing in mind that we're probably all quite different suspect that you wont please all the people all of the time!
As for being intellectual I dont intend to be! Having said that the idea of book group is to broaden your horizons a bit - read books you wouldnt have normally & look for meaning but no long words required! Its a discussion after all!
No you havent missed the discussion on Northern Lights - suspect some still have to read it so this months will be slightly shorter discussion because of that if people are ok with this? How many people have actually read it?! Off to finish my copy!! I was really chuffed as not read any of his before & read so much that I often run out of authors cos they dont write quickly enough!!

Snaggles

fishface-69 wrote: »

I often run out of authors cos they dont write quickly enough!!

Ohhh, I hate that too!! And the authors that I'm not that keen on seem to have a new book out every week. :rolleyes:

1_step_closer

Brilliant idea - letting everyone take a turn in choosing.........and I'd also like to say that I am really looking forward to reading others' favourites! I tend to stick to the same authors all the time.

1st of the month sounds good too...........