'Safe'
We open it up, we talks the talk, we votes, we shuts it down. This thread is to free up Bureaucracy for daily details as we hammer out the Big Issues towards a vote. Open only when a proposal has been made and seconded according to Buffista policy (Which we voted on!). If this thread is closed, hie thee to Bureaucracy instead!
I have nothing to add to the discussion other than expressing my guilt at not participating in a thread that I thought would be a great idea.
I love my IRL book club. We don't all finish our books by the appointed date, but lively rapid fire discussion always happens. I somehow wasn't able to make that happen here.
Sad, but I have to be in the "oh well, it didn't work out" camp.
Sad, but I have to be in the "oh well, it didn't work out" camp.
Me, too.
Sad, but I have to be in the "oh well, it didn't work out" camp.
Alas, yes.
People who were reading the Holmes stuff... are there tentative plans to discuss one of those after the holidays? If so, perhaps the closing proposal should include a closing date that allows for this.
There's no mention of that in the thread, as far as I could see.
People who were reading the Holmes stuff... are there tentative plans to discuss one of those after the holidays?
Personally, I think that boat sailed. And despite Deena's generous efforts in putting the stuff up online for us, and Nilly's fabulous comments, discussion just seemed to fizzle out.
In B'craxy a few weeks ago, I mentioned maybe starting up discussion about something again after the holidays, whether Holmes or other, but the truth is I won't have time. I was the one who nominated Baskervilles, after all, and I didn't even show up to discuss it.
As I said previously in B'cy, I'm not going to make a big deal if people want to close the book thread. Personally, I don't think the thread has been a failure despite it's recent disuse. Admittedly, for almost 10 months it had no activity, and then the Holmes discussion lasted about a month. And I enjoyed the hell out of it. Prior to that, there were hundreds of posts of lively discussion, and I think we covered at least 5 other books that I otherwise would never have read. In the future I was hoping that we'd do more of the free classics that we started with Holmes, perhaps a graphic novel at some point, and any other book that dominates that Buffista consciousness i.e. when H.P. 6 came out and took over the thread for a few weeks.
But it's not a vanity board, and if nobody else wants to keep it open, so be it. But please, let's not call it a failure.
Good point, Wolfram. And I don't see any reason there couldn't be an occasional planned discussion of a specific book in the Literary thread -- it's kind of like that anyway, sometimes, when a bunch of people have read a given book.
Agree with Wolfram--not a failure, but a victim of timing. I shall miss it and hope for a resurrection in the future. Maybe Showtime can pick it up.
Is it too early for a postcard drive?