The key thing is that it’s low-commitment / low-guilt. I was inspired to start it by a friend who started a book club during the pandemic, fell catastrophically behind on the reading, and ultimately ended up ghosting her own book club.
I’ve noticed that book clubs tend to become machines for making people feel guilty / overloaded, so I tried hard to avoid that. We do a book every 2 − 3 months, and the default expectation is that people won’t attend unless that specific book is interesting to them.
Shortly before the discussion, I send out a summary of the book (which was my motivation for writing this), so that people can attend and participate without needing to finish (or even start) the book.
It’s still a fairly new endeavor, but it seems to be working so far.
How is your book club different?
The key thing is that it’s low-commitment / low-guilt. I was inspired to start it by a friend who started a book club during the pandemic, fell catastrophically behind on the reading, and ultimately ended up ghosting her own book club.
I’ve noticed that book clubs tend to become machines for making people feel guilty / overloaded, so I tried hard to avoid that. We do a book every 2 − 3 months, and the default expectation is that people won’t attend unless that specific book is interesting to them.
Shortly before the discussion, I send out a summary of the book (which was my motivation for writing this), so that people can attend and participate without needing to finish (or even start) the book.
It’s still a fairly new endeavor, but it seems to be working so far.