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[peacefulbeauty]

I have been doing some roaming around livejournal and glimpsing at some of you recently active members. We have some really dynamic members from all kinds of places and experiences. I really would love to see that in action here. I was thinking about a way to get people onto reading the same book and having discussions. Since i have yet to renew

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[thatgirlsylvia]

That'd be wicked and since some people know more about some genres or country literature, than there'll be room for learning.

I know some Canadian literature (especially since we have to study it throughout high school) and I know about some Polish literature.

How would you want to list the categories? In one post like we would with recommended reads?

[peacefulbeauty]

yea that is probably what will work best. then i can make a link to it from the user info and save it to "memories" so it is easily accessible. And once we get a few categories we can assign them months. So we know what category books to recommened for each up coming month

I also want to encourage people to post on categories that they have been wanting to read about. so they don't have to neccessarily know anything about it.

because i can't think of any books in the queer or caribbean category off the top of my head. but i would like to read some and get some good recommendations.

[aggro13]

I would love to have the opportunity to read more caribbean authors and discuss. I read some fantastic works by Maryse Conde and Sam Selvon last year. I can dig up a list of some others that I haven't yet read. Where should we post this info?

[peacefulbeauty]

well for now we are compiling a list of categories. once we designate a category for each month then you can post the novels by authors in those categories as nominations for the book that we read that month.

I think that we should make caribbean authors the category for august actually. since it is summer time. what would be more appropriate?

So dig up your nominations for caribbean authors and i will talk to the other maintainers and most likely make it next months category.

feel free to make posts about the books you have read though. i am interesting in hearing all about them.

[quarterpastone]

Sounds good.

Do we have to strictly adhere to the category of the month (so to speak)?

[peacefulbeauty]

yea i think when it comes to making the nominations for the month we should stick to the category. It will force us to explore something new i guess. I mean there are so many hundreds of books in each category that i am sure we can stick to it and still get a great variety.

Ofcourse all posts won't have to stick to the category. you can still and are encouraged to post about whatever you are reading or whatever literary news etc that you want to post about.

[ladywhisp]

if it would help, I'm offering you free webspace to host reviews, archive discussions, etc. If you'd like, this can include a members-only forum for discussion.

it would be at www.painedelysium.net It doesn't look like much but if you look at http://www.painedelysium.net/dev/ , you can see what it should look like soon.

I know this is undead authors, but I'd love to see us cover some known queer authors who very much covered up their sexuality at the time, like Henry James (if you're interested, I'm sure reading_x_rainbow would be interested in joining in the discussion).

I don't know about anyone else, but I'd also like to cover translations of modern foreign authors.