Sounds good to me, JZ. I've actually not read any Gaiman, but so many people here have talked about his work that I've been meaning to start.

Another note -- we could always vary the way we pick books from time to time. For those who want to suggest a title or two but might not want to be a designated chooser.

The first post of a thread is any easy place to find stuff, and people new to the thread will hit on it first.

I love this idea.

Though is has been said already: Hooray! Bookclub! I'm so in.

No book sugestions for now, but I've got a maybe for "quotey thing" I'd like toss out: "We're supposed to get some books" from this bit here.

Or maybe this: "But you don't seem bookwormy" from here.

but I've got a maybe for "quotey thing" I'd like toss out: "We're supposed to get some books" from this bit here.

"Does this look like a Barnes and Noble?"

Hey, y'all- I love to see so much activity- someone mentioned posting all the recs in my big slutty first post, and that sounds good to me! I've got a lot on the plate tonight, but I can try to do it tommorrow, when I'm not using dial-up!

Not the recs, lilty, but the "rules" when we hammer out some kind of structure here. Nothing you can do right now, even if you had the time.

t peeks in and looks around

This is... neat! I couldn't really keep up with the literary thread, but with 1-2 books a month and a promise of a discussion, I think even *I* can kick my own ass into gear, so to speak.

I don't know if we're still taking recs, but I'd love to hear what the Buffistas think of Mary Doria Russell's "The Sparrow" (which might have been discussed in the literary thread for all I know, since Consuela was the one who first recommended the book to me.) I think it's right up in our alley. The Amazon blurb goes thus:

In 2019, humanity finally finds proof of extraterrestrial life when a listening post in Puerto Rico picks up exquisite singing from a planet which will come to be known as Rakhat. While United Nations diplomats endlessly debate a possible first contact mission, the Society of Jesus quietly organizes an eight-person scientific expedition of its own. What the Jesuits find is a world so beyond comprehension that it will lead them to question the meaning of being "human." When the lone survivor of the expedition, Emilio Sandoz, returns to Earth in 2059, he will try to explain what went wrong...

I also have a bunch of books on the shelves I have bought at the recommendation of friends and have yet to read, including Barbara Kingsolver's "Poisonwood Bible", Charlotte Brontë's "Villette", Mark Z. Danielewski's "House of Leaves", all of which look like good Book Club material...

Oh, I get it. Well, still. My big slutty post is YOUR big slutty post.

(Although if it could maintain an element of sluttiness, I'd be obliged. Even if its just a Valley of the Dolls or Lady Chatterley's Lover nod.)

I suppose Henry Adams is not really beach reading

I'd like to suggest a good beachy book for next summer. Forever Amber by Kathleen Winsor may be somewhat long and hard to get, but it's a fun romp through Restoration England. Or Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls, for a wallow in post-WWII Hollywood.

And for something more serious, Anthony Trollope's The Warden. Life among the clergy in an 1859s English cathedral town. (Actually, I'd rather suggest his Barchester Towers or Can You Forgive Her?, but those might be too long for a book club.)