Book Club
gabrielle September 13th, 2008
As we were discussing in the comments recently, some of us are starting up an informal online book club. We already have quite a few great selections in mind and I’m sure the list will grow exponentially! So, we decided to start with one of Ann’s suggestions: “Anam Cara. A Book of Celtic Wisdom”, by John O’Donohue. Everyone is more than welcome to join us, whether you have a blog or not, for any/all books we end up reading/discussing/commenting on.
This post is mainly just to get a bit of feedback in the combox re “logistics”, until we get going and see how we would like this to work. I just retrieved my copy of Anam Cara from the library last evening, and I see that it has six chapters, each chapter divided up with many subtitles; just from skimming through quickly I can see that each chapter will be rich/meaty and take some time to properly absorb/reflect upon. So here are just some thoughts/questions concerning how we might like to procede:
- Would we like one blogger to “host” each book? e.g., would Ann like to host Anam Cara since it was her suggestion and the author is Irish? Then we could rotate, each taking a turn hosting a book;
- Would one chapter per week of Anam Cara be okay, or is that too slow for some of your liking? One post by the host per week (one chapter), and we could all do the required reading and head over to the combox?
- If our discussions spark separate posts where we can express ourselves more fully rather than trying to put everything in the combox, is that okay, if we link back to the host’s original post?
- Well, I can’t wait to get started, so please leave your comments/suggestions and we’ll get this book club off the ground! Just as an appetizer, here’s a little audio from Sounds True, which organization John O’Donohue mentions in the Acknowledgements section of his book.
