I’ve wanted to start a book club for a long time. Books are amazing, they give us new perspectives and ideas, enrich our lives, and act as a healthy escape from reality.
A man lives but one life - but the avid reader, she lives a thousand lives.
The Proposal
Here’s my idea, modeled loosely off of the Something Awful Book Club:
The Basic Concept
We read one book per month, with a new discussion thread every week. I may make ChainBB the “Recommended Steem Interface” for this, so we can have more of a thread-style ongoing conversation.
Two weeks into the month, based on group interest and conversation, I’ll propose a new list of five books. The club then votes to decide which one is picked for next month.
How We'll Stay in Sync:
We’ll have a “recommended reading pace” - so week one will be roughly the first quarter of the book, week two we’ll be halfway through, etc. Each week’s discussion will allow spoilers up to the current reading point, but no further.
…and that’s about it! The style of books that we focus on - fiction, non-fiction, modern, classic, etc, that’s all up for debate.
Oh yeah, the Steem-Earning Part:
One other aspect of it - if the book club posts start earning reasonable payouts (let’s say 20+ steems per week), then we can start rewarding book club members with some of that money. Perhaps something like 70% of the steem earned from each of Book Club Thread could be split up amongst all participants each week, as a reward for participating.
Or we could put the SBDs into Facebook ads to try and get new users to join us… the possibilities are endless.
Roll Call - Who’s Interested?
This topic is meant as a general roll call of interest. If you have any interest in a book club, regardless of what kind of books you read - just let me know by responding to this post!
If enough people are interested (I’d be hoping for at least 10, preferably closer to 20, at the interest stage), I’ll move forward with a new thread and shoot everybody a steem chat message to let them know we're gonna do it.
If you are interested, comment on this thread. Don’t wait! If this doesn’t get a response, I will have to postpone the idea or abandon it… so be loud and proud, let me know.