[stylist] Ideas for a book discussion-based forum

Mon Dec 5 02:32:03 UTC 2011

Now, Bridget, I like your idea.  Sort of like a book club.  I assumed we 
were talking about just posting reviews on any book you've read.  And doing 
that would overflow everything else.
Barbara

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any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose 
any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.--John 
F. Kennedy
-----Original Message----- 
From: Bridgit Pollpeter
Sent: Sunday, December 04, 2011 2:33 PM
To: stylist at nfbnet.org
Subject: [stylist] Ideas for a book discussion-based forum

Robert and Stylist members,

What you say makes a lot of sense. Just as we do now, anyone not wanting
to participate in a book discussion of sorts could just avoid those
posts with the subject for that thread. After considering Robert's post,
it doesn't make a lot of sense to develop an entire different listserve,
whether it be a NFBNET one or other.

To make it a bit more formal and organized, I think a topic moderator is
necessary, and people wanting to participate could send book ideas to
the moderator, a list would be compiled, then either a select group
choose the order of books, or those participating could vote on the
order of books.

Chapters/pages could be "assigned," for lack of a better term, to be
read by a certain point, and on specific dates, those sections would be
discussed via Stylist, making sure to include a specific subject with
each post. The moderator could have a few questions/thoughts to initiate
the discussion, but of course, as always, the discussion would
ultimately be based on what participants add to the discussion.

It could also start at the conclusion of reading a book too. So say a
book is chosen, we have a time period in which to read it, say two
weeks, could be dependent on book, then we start a discussion, again
with a moderator kick-starting with questions/thoughts. The thread could
last for a certain amount of time, say a week or something, before
moving onto another book.

Another thought is to choose like four or five books for an entire year,
have specific dates in which we finish reading and discussed, breaking
up the year, and not overwhelming anyone wanting to participate, though
we don't have to participate each time. But say we will read The
Poisonwood Bible, to be finished by Feb. 1, then we will spend X amount
of time discussing it. Then we will read Superfudge, to be finished by
May 1, then discussed for X amount of time, and so forth and so on.

Of course the books would have to be available in an accessible format
that most can access like BARD, NLS or BookShare, or wherever a
participant could find it, preferably with no charge.

We could read fiction as well as nonfiction (in the vein of
memoir/personal essay) and poetry too. And just now thinking about it
too, could be short pieces as well, not just novels, plus could be
different genres as well.

So, anyway, these are my initial thoughts. However it is done, and
where, the idea is worth merit.

Sincerely,
Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter
Read my blog at:
http://blogs.livewellnebraska.com/author/bpollpeter/

"History is not what happened; history is what was written down."
The Expected One- Kathleen McGowan

Message: 14
Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2011 22:09:40 -0600
From: "Robert Leslie Newman" <newmanrl at cox.net>
To: "writers nfb" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
Subject: [stylist] A new list just for book discussions
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Guys, I'm for whatever boosts our writing. Creating a new list is an
easy thing to do. But before you run off and do this --- think about it
--- holding discussions on books is not so "off" topic/purpose from what
we are doing here on STYLIST. I'm asking this --- why not start it here?
Each post would be clearly labeled. Starting it here might bring in
members to that thread, and if that traffic were to become too heavy,
then we could split that off. (Another idea --- the chat list is super
slow- use it!?! (Again, part of me is not liking, losing writing
relating posts from where most of us are, on STYLIST.

[If we host it on STYLIST- we'd need a moderator for that special
post-type.]

I wonder how the general population on STYLIST feels about this topic?
Like trying to host that function here on STYLIST?  Hey --- you all ---
you who are reading this post --- what do you feel about hosting it here
on STYLIST?

(One other super related thought --- if several of you who are
interested in this book discussion list, a separate one --- you could
hit David Andrews up for the creation of that new list and see what he
says? [some may think that by me suggesting this as an option is counter
to all that I wrote above --- but it's not --- I'm for trying new things
and giving writers options.)

Robert Leslie Newman

President, Omaha Chapter NFB

President, NFB Writers' Division

Division Website

<http://www.nfb-writers-division.> http://www.nfb-writers-division.net

Chair, Newsletter Publication committee

Personal Website-

<http://www.thoughtprovoker.info/> http://www.thoughtprovoker.info

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