Well, we could try.

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.

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.

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?

Who are you seeing as displaying eagerness, connie?

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.

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.

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.

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.

I, for one, am glad so many folks are subscribed to this thread. And I view Jen's original post (revive or close) as a wake-up call to either use this thread, or lose it.

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.

Agreed.