I'm with you, Wolfram, and think we should give it another go. My huge busy stuff is over, so I should actually have some time this fall and winter.
Uh, are we gonna fight, or is there just gonna be a monster sarcasm rally?
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The Buffista Book Club: the Harry Potter iteration
This thread is a focused discussion group. Please see the first post below for the current topic and upcoming book discussions. While natter will inevitably happen, we encourage you to treat this like a virtual book club and try to keep your posts in that spirit.
By consensus, this thread is reopened specifically to discuss Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. It will be closed again once that discussion has run its course.
***SPOILER ALERT***
libkitty - Aug 02, 2005 11:53:58 am PDT #907 of 3301
Embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for. Grace Lee Boggs
erikaj - Aug 02, 2005 11:56:00 am PDT #908 of 3301
Always Anti-fascist!
Well, we could try.
Kat - Aug 02, 2005 11:56:22 am PDT #909 of 3301
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I bet all the people who were so mortally disturbed by the idea of this thread have forgotten about it.
I hadn't forgotten that it was here. In fact, I looked at it 3 weeks ago and thought, "interesting that after all of the hullabaloo about how literary can't be a place to discuss books, when a space was made it didn't facilitate it for very long."
It was on my mind to bring up what JenP brought up, but I was waiting for mid August when it would have been two months without a post.
it just doesn't feel like this thread is wrong for b.org.
If a thread goes so long without posts, and even longer without the type of conversation the thread was ostensibly designed for (because the last book you discussed was November? December?) then how can it not be viewed as not working within the context of the community.
Topic!Cindy - Aug 02, 2005 11:57:06 am PDT #910 of 3301
What is even happening?
Maybe I'm just biased here, Cindy, but it just doesn't feel like this thread is wrong for b.org. Since nobody in particular cares if we close it or not, how about we give it another go?
I won't propose we close it. I do think though, if this go-round doesn't work, we seriously ought to think about it.
Connie Neil - Aug 02, 2005 11:57:58 am PDT #911 of 3301
brillig
I'm very curious as to why people are watching this thread with such eagerness to declare it dead. Why care so much? What harm does it do?
§ ita § - Aug 02, 2005 11:58:35 am PDT #912 of 3301
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Who are you seeing as displaying eagerness, connie?
Connie Neil - Aug 02, 2005 12:00:34 pm PDT #913 of 3301
brillig
Who are you seeing as displaying eagerness, connie?
From Kat, just above:
I hadn't forgotten that it was here. In fact, I looked at it 3 weeks ago and thought, "interesting that after all of the hullabaloo about how literary can't be a place to discuss books, when a space was made it didn't facilitate it for very long."
It was on my mind to bring up what JenP brought up, but I was waiting for mid August when it would have been two months without a post.
Kat - Aug 02, 2005 12:01:01 pm PDT #914 of 3301
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I'm assuming she means me, ita. Because, Connie, I occasionally look through all of the things I'm subscribed to and to read the last thing that was discussed to refresh my own brain.
xpost.
§ ita § - Aug 02, 2005 12:01:42 pm PDT #915 of 3301
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Waiting to mid August doesn't strike me as eager, but I have acknowledged impatience issues.
I regularly look over threads to see which are active and which are working and which might be closed. It's not eager, it's just organisation.
Connie Neil - Aug 02, 2005 12:03:53 pm PDT #916 of 3301
brillig
I regularly look over threads to see which are active and which are working and which might be closed. It's not eager, it's just organisation.
Isn't that what we worship you for? To keep us organized?
kat, you said you check what you're subscribed to for what's going on, but I got the impression that you didn't have much use for this thread.