Nice fresh guidelines! Ok, I hope this helps. Did I get it right, everyone?
MISSION: The DU nonfiction book club will discuss political and/or various nonfiction books. The aims of the group are to encourage reading of a variety of interesting books and to faciliiate friendly discussion.
WHO CAN JOIN: Everyone!
GUIDELINES: We will discuss 1 book per month, more or less, with adjustments to the schedule for long or short books as requested by the membership.
We will choose and nominate these books on a rolling basis.
For example: On the first day of January, we will start three threads:
- The book club main discussion thread for the January book.
- The poll thread for the February book. (This will stay open one week, and then will close.)
- The nominations thread for the March book. (This will stay open all month.)
NOMINATION OF BOOKSEach person has one nomination, and can second as many books as they like. The "seconding" of the books is important because there are only 10 spots on the poll, so the "seconds" will often determine which books actually get on the poll.
DISCUSSIONThe discussion will take place through-out the month. You are
not expected to have read the entire book at the beginning of the month. In fact, you are encouraged to read a chapter or so, and if you have questions or comments, to post questions or observations about your reading experience up to that point (please read "SPOILER WARNINGS," below, and take this into account.)
SPOILER WARNINGSEveryone, please use some discretion with posting things which come towards the end of the book, and knowing them that might spoil the enjoyment of the book for those who are just getting started. Especially towards the beginning of the month.
This is not as big of an issue with most non fiction, but there ARE some types of nonfiction books that are just as suspenseful as fiction books -- I'm thinking of "The Informant," the one about the ADM bust.
So, if you want to post something that seems spoiler-y, that you post it in white font. How you do this is, you replace the parentheses in the example with square brackets:
(font color="white")Spoiler text goes here(/font)
Then those who would like to read the white font can just highlight it with their mouse.
THREAD MANAGEMENT:We will name our threads in this way.
BOOK CLUB: (month name) (abbreviated book name) (number)
So the first one would possibly be:
BOOK CLUB: Dec. "What's the Matter with Kansas" 1
The number would be, in case the thread gets really long and unmanageable, say a few hundred posts, for the sake of people on dial-up, that we would start a new thread and continue the discussion in that. So the next thread would be
BOOK CLUB: Dec. "What's the Matter with Kansas" 2
When we do this we should have the admins lock the old thread for neatness purposes. You can do this by pressing "alert" and asking the administrator to lock the thread.
DON'T FORGET TO HELP OUT DU!Part of your Amazon.com purchase will go to DU if you buy through this link:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=democraticund-20&path=subst/home/home.html
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