Submitted by cyberrose in readingclub

Hey lovely people, we have a reading club (offline normally, online currently) and discussed a few books already. Now we have the problem, that we somehow could not manage to find a structure fitting to our group. So this is how we currently do it:

We read the whole book chapter wise/split in parts discussing each individually.

We don't have any specific focus. Everyone reads, marks and notes the stuff the person finds most interesting.

Most of the time there is some person summarizing the part we want to discuss.

During discussion the person which prepared the session goes through the summary in chronological order. When someone read the section differently or wants to add something the person interrupts and opens the discussion right away.

So this is basically what we do. There is no group summary, no result generated.

This worked quite well for more "technical" books and felt like a good approach for them. But currently we read Hooks "where we stand: Class Matters" and really struggled there with this approach.

Can some of you people explain how they do it or how we could improve?

Thanks!

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Hibiscus_Syrup wrote

Sometimes it helps if everyone comes with one or two things that they thought worth talking about, for whatever reason.
This can be anything, from content, to style, to even things like why they chose the translator they chose, or weird tangents based on niche interests.

Usually in reading groups I'm in someone will volunteer the week before to present on the ideas that are read about, and everybody ideally comes with at least one thing that they want to talk about.

People just going through those is often more than enough to generate the conversation.
If it isn't, it's ok to end the meeting early sometimes too :)

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MHC wrote

Make practice match policy. If your Web page says "Anything goes.", but your email says "Sieg heil!", then I get confused.

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