a book lovers book club
Hi, I'm new.
Hello! I’ve just been made co-leader of Bibliophile, so I thought I would introduce myself. I'm Bardsley. I just started reading Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software. I'm only one chapter in, so it's hard to say if I like it or not.
As a co-leader, I will be trying to encourage activity. For example, the community description mentions having regularly scheduled reading events. I'd like to start that. I see this as being completely optional events where some people nominate books to read, we vote and choose one, and those who want to spend a month reading it together. Discussion of other, unrelated books is still 100% encouraged during the month. If there is a book that you would like to nominate, please mention it in the comments.
If you want to make a post introducing yourself and talking about what you're reading or what you'd like to see happen with this community, please leave a comment or make an original post. I'm really looking forward to getting to know all of you and helping make the kind of book-loving community that you want.




First, I would like to nominate Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency. It’s about 292 pages long. I enjoyed the recent TV show, and I'd like to compare it to the book. I’ve already read this before, and while I remember enjoying it, it has been so long that I don't really remember a lot of details. It's by the same author as The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series and contains a similar kind of nihilistically joyful humor.
The second book I am nominating is A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki. It's about 432 pages long. Stealing the Amazon description here:
In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there’s only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates’ bullying. But before she ends it all, Nao first plans to document the life of her great grandmother, a Buddhist nun who’s lived more than a century. A diary is Nao’s only solace—and will touch lives in ways she can scarcely imagine. Across the Pacific, we meet Ruth, a novelist living on a remote island who discovers a collection of artifacts washed ashore in a Hello Kitty lunchbox—possibly debris from the devastating 2011 tsunami. As the mystery of its contents unfolds, Ruth is pulled into the past, into Nao’s drama and her unknown fate, and forward into her own future.
Welcome to leadership, @bardsley! :)
Thank you kindly. If there is anything you would like to see here, let me know. :)
Well, good luck with your new responsibilities! :-)
I'm a lifelong lover of books (physical books) and reading, but I'm afraid I am not one for "book club" type activity. I stopped doing that kind of homework when I left school, lo these many decades ago. :-)
Currently I am rereading my way through several of my favorite Georgette Heyer novels. Heyer wrote over 50 novels, beginning in the 1920s and ending with her passing in the 70s. She wrote historical novels and mysteries, but she is best known for her romance novels and is considered the writer who birthed the Regency Romance genre.
I know that, by and large, the romances are not respected (and I think that much of it is only the most basic escapist, mind candy--not that there isn't a time and place for that). But don't dismiss Heyer. in that general mish-mosh. I consider her works to be modern classics.
I also currently am rereading (aloud, to my sister) a favorite Bill Bryson book, In a Sunburned Country.
ksl
Thank you for introducing me to a new author. Heyer sounds intriguing. Such a long career!
Don't worry about not wanting to do the book club thing. What kind of things would you like to see here?
Hmmm. I'm more of a "reactor" than an "actor." So sometimes asking questions about books and authors prompts me to respond.
I like to hear folks talking about favorite authors, favorite books, favorite genres, what they are reading now, etc.
All within the context, of course, of "why." Why an author/book/genre is a favorite, why they picked up the book they are reading now and what they think of it, and so on.
ksl
Hmm... Really good points. Thank you.