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Realized after 4 months of book club that nobody actually reads the author interviews I kept assigning
When our discussion on the third book stalled completely and Barb finally admitted she skipped the interview section because she thought it was 'homework,' I knew I had been forcing the wrong kind of conversation the whole time, has anyone else accidentally turned their book club into a classroom without meaning to?
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wadem8929d ago
Yeah @henderson.oscar nailed it. Ditch the extra stuff and just let people talk.
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henderson.oscar1mo ago
Totally been there, it stings when you realize people were just being polite nodding along. I did the exact same thing with a true crime book club I started, got so into the author's methodology notes that I forgot we were there to argue about the suspects and weird alibis. When someone finally said 'can we just talk about why the gardener lied,' I felt like a total idiot for wasting four meetings. You get caught up in curating the experience and forget the actual experience is just people talking about a story they enjoyed. It's not a classroom, it's a hangout with snacks and opinions, and that's way more fun anyway.
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