Planning for 2012

Hello Book Clubbers,

I am sure we are all trying to fully enjoy these last few weeks of summer.  As the days become shorter and the mornings become crisper, it is time to plan our year of reading choices.  The selection meeting for 2011-2012 is at 7 PM on Wednesday, September 7th at Barb Reed’s.  Please call her if you are able to attend.  I don’t recall (and neither does Jill) that we picked snack and wine volunteers for that night, so please let Barb know if you can bring something.

I am super hopeful that we will have an excellent turnout with lots of great book ideas that night.  Remember that our club’s success is a reflection of all of our input.  We need everybody to pitch in with suggestions for books (or ideas for improvements for that matter) so that we can have a great year ahead.

In case this is your first selection night or you forgot how it goes…members bring suggestions for one or two books that they think the club would enjoy reading and discussing.  (If you have a question regarding whether the club has already read a particular book, you can view our entire past on the blog)  We will go around the room and give a brief description of our proposals.  Please also bring something physical representing your suggestion.  This can be the book itself, a printed review (from Amazon for example) or even just a sheet of paper with the title, author and brief synopsis.  These items will then be laid out at Barb’s, and we will vote by putting chips on the ones we would each like to read.  The top vote getters will become our choice list for the coming year.  As we go around the room, we will also try to identify possible picks that might make good suggestions for the 2012 co-ed meeting that we will then propose for the guys to choose from at this year’s gathering.

You may also bring any books that you have finished and are willing to part with for our used book swap. 

Even if you have been thinking about it all summer and still don’t feel that you have a good book to propose, we still would like you there to help make our selections.  I can’t stress enough that the involvement of as many members as possible best assures good choices that we are all excited to read.  This meeting is also an excellent time to put forth any other ideas you have regarding our club.

That’s it for now.  Feel free to call or e-mail me with any questions or confusions.

Jan