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I am thinking about starting a book group on Meetup, because there are no spec-fic book groups in my area*, and I would love to talk about nerdy books with other people. I cannot decide if this is a bad idea or not.

    Pros:
  • Get to talk about nerdy books with other people
  • Maybe make friends, I guess? In any case, more social interaction, which is probably a positive
  • Force myself to finish books, rather than get bored and stop halfway through
  • Exposure to books I would otherwise not have read
  • If I run the book group, I can declare from the outset that quiet handcrafts or other similar activities are acceptable during discussion

    Cons:
  • Talking to strangers, oh no
  • I have neither run nor really ever been a part of a book group before
  • Meetup groups cost money
  • If I run the book group, I have to do all the organizational tasks and I hate those and I'm already doing it for my D&D game



I'm going to give myself till Saturday and if I still want to do it, I'll set the group up then.





*The idea has occasionally been brought up as a library program, but the person in charge of book groups for the system has yet to go for it. She does not read spec-fic. I was part of a conversation with her about this once, during which she said that she didn't think the books in question would "provide enough scope for discussion" which, I mean, have you ever met a nerd? I personally could talk for an hour about individual twenty-minute episodes of The Magnus Archives - you don't think a group of nerds could talk about even a bad book for an hour?
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