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I finally got our group to stop arguing about picking books
We wasted 30 minutes every meeting just voting. I tried letting each person pick one book for the whole year in January, and we put them all on a calendar. Now we just follow the list. Has your club found a better way to plan ahead?
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shah.olivia3mo agoTop Commenter
Thirty minutes every meeting just to pick a book? I mean, that's a whole other meeting. My old club would spend maybe five minutes max, we'd just throw out three options and do a quick show of hands. I can't imagine losing half an hour to that every single time.
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oscarcooper3mo agoProlific Poster
Yeah, the part about "thirty minutes every meeting" really got me. I read this article once about how some clubs spend more time picking the book than talking about it, which defeats the whole point. It said that if the choice process takes too long, people just get tired and stop caring about the actual discussion. A quick vote on a few options seems way more respectful of everyone's time. Dragging it out feels like poor planning, honestly.
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karenm4918d ago
Oh wow, thirty minutes is brutal... I could see that killing the energy before you even get to the book. So here's what I'm wondering then: when you did the quick show of hands, did you ever have people just go along with a pick they secretly hated? Cause my club tried that speed method and ended up with three months of books nobody actually wanted to read, just because everyone was too polite to fight it. Did that ever happen in your group?
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