2006 BOOK CLUB GUIDELINES

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Below are the modified guidelines for Book Club for 2006 as agreed by members through various polls. Significant changes were made to the categories SCHEDULE & NOMINATION OF BOOKS.

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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 facilitate friendly discussion.

WHO CAN JOIN: Everyone!

SCHEDULE: 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 according to the schedule below. For example:

On the first day of January, we will:
>> Start the main discussion thread for the January book.
>> Announce the February title.
>> Poll members for selection of the March title.
>> Take nominations for the April title.

The goal is to have an entire month to obtain the next month’s title.

NOMINATION OF BOOKS
Each person has one nomination. Please remember, if you nominate a book, you are committing to driving the discussion of that book if it becomes the selected title.

You can second as many books as you 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.

DISCUSSION
The 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 WARNINGS
Please use some discretion with posting comments about the end of the book, especially early in the month. If you want to post something that may be a spoiler, please post that text in white font. In the example below, replace the parentheses () with square brackets []:

(font color="white")Spoiler text goes here(/font)

To read the white font, highlight it with your mouse.

THREAD MANAGEMENT
The Book Club admin will manage the threads.


DON'T FORGET TO HELP OUT DU!
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/subst/home/home.html/104-3444144-6171150

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1. These officially go into effect starting March.

Since we had not agreed to the nominating person driving the disucssion until a few weeks ago, the January & February titles are not required to be driven by the nominating members, unless they would like to. :)

In the future, I will include a reminder about the driving of the discussion in the nomination thread.

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2. I just noticed that I made an error in the scheduling.

Instead of this:

On the first day of January, we will:
>> Start the main discussion thread for the January book.
>> Announce the February title.
>> Poll members for selection of the March title.
>> Take nominations for the April title.


it should be this:

On the first day of January, we will:
>> Start the main discussion thread for the January book.
>> Announce the February title.
>> Start taking nominations for the March title; this will run through mid-month or so & then we will poll the last 10 days or so of the January so that by February 1st we can announce the March title.