wondering if I'm being too booky in Natter.

Bothers me, too. That's why I steadfastly resisted the Literary thread in WX days.

I also feel really, really stupid discussing Nora Robb in a title called Literary. I feel I'm bringing down the tone.

Me, I don't like bouncing to literary either. Not that I'm jealous, I just don't like running over there to talk books, or wondering if I'm being too booky in Natter.

ita is me.

I also feel really, really stupid discussing Nora Robb

I feel the same way about discussing her and Nickolas Sparks.

Can we have a "Trashy Romance - No Literature Here" thread?

Don't kill me, totally kidding.

Oh, I'm agreeing with Hec, on needing both the music and movie threads. I can't ever keep up in Natter, it moves so fast. And even John's Diet doesn't help, because I have no sense of where the convo's been, and I know I'm missing stuff.

I'm usually restricting myself to show threads, Literary, SS, and the admin threads, which I can feel at least conversant in. Adding music and movies threads would put some of the Natter I've missed within my reach. As it were.

Upon reflection, I think I'd vote for a Music Thread and a Movies Thread - simply because there is no way I can keep up with Natter.

Can I just suggest that you'll never catch up in Natter? It's like road systems -- widen the roads, and the traffic will expand to fill the space.

When the Natter thread was introduced, everyone just posted more.

I like the idea of a few topic-specific threads. There will always be book, movie, and music natter in the main Natter thread, but it's nice to be able to jump into a distilled discussion of things or know that a question is less likely to be lost in the rush of Natter.

I'd just like to mention, as someone who can't keep up with Natter, that I like the idea of smaller "category" threads. I can keep up with Literary amd TTT. I personally wouldn't read the music thread, but I would love to have a general Movies thread (not that I mean to start a debate on that topic). I waded briefly into Natter to see what the reactions, if any, were to Chicago and I found that a bit of a pain.

I like to know Buffista opinions on various topics, because I've come to trust them (though I don't always agree with them) as being well reasoned and expressed. I just wish it weren't always so much work.

I don't post often in Literary but I think it's a pretty good balance of all types of books.

Maybe we need to change the slug to indicate that isn't for Literature.

I am with Hec about a music thread, I've poked around the People's Forum music thread before, and they seem like nice people, but I'm not that into music and I can't follow most of what's being said.

Okay -- here's my selfish opinion. I find it hard to keep up with splinter thread. So I don't discuss Due South so much anymore, or Smallville, or even books. TTT -- well, it's an obsession. But things like music or movies which are more like interests?

Would then drop off my radar.