Tarot Book Club?

Have we ever attempted a Book Club on Aeclectic? Pick a book, agree to read it in a month, confabulate at the end?

I love this idea. I would be willing to do it if anyone else wants to

Perhaps more then a month if we pick a really thick one.

I am right now reading this:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25162924-marseille-tarot-towards-the-art-of-reading

but I am also waiting on that Holistic tarot book.

Anyway, I would be up for a book club!

There is the option of using a poll to pick a book. Each person interested in signing up suggests one, we run the poll (realizes that would result in each book getting one vote).

I would love to read either of those. Hmmm.

I have the time and the interest to do this sort of thing. I'd like to see some kind of voting or "opt-out," though. You wouldn't REALLY make me read Angeles Arrien or Gerd Ziegler, would you? And if we dive into the Book of Thoth, some of us may never come out . On second thought, at this point I should probably be spending my money on decks, not books.

One thing I have heard about Book Clubs is that choosing recently released books will go over better than choosing classics since there are fewer people who have already read the new ones.

Shade said:

One thing I have heard about Book Clubs is that choosing recently released books will go over better than choosing classics since there are fewer people who have already read the new ones.

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Yes, I figured as much, which is why I probably couldn't afford to do it and buy decks too.

We have actually tried more than once. There was a book club and even a Sci Fi one, and I subscribed (as you might say) to both. They both fell over for lack of interest. People would sign up - and then start to post oh man, I didn't finish, I haven't time - and so on.

I particularly recall when we tried Stranger in a Strange Land. I think Wu and I were the only ones who actually read it, so discussion got a bit dull - though EVERYONE was mad keen when it was selected !

I'll try and find the threads... We did actually pick older ones, and use libraries and so on, though.

Yup - here's the start of the sci fi one:

http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=148586

The one where we tried to discuss the book:

http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=148827
We tried once more:
http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=151763

I can't find the more general one, but I do know that we read some older books that I virtuously read even though I was bored rigid...

Wait - got it. We did Anna Karenina.

http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=147383 - the idea was raised. We read Dracula, I think, and then we tried ANna K:

http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=148496 Well a few of us did.

Good luck. I am in one IRL, so I think I'll pass.

Thanks for finding those threads Gregory! I have heard that there are a lot of pitfalls that come up for Book Clubs and getting people to read the books is one of the main ones. I once read Tarot at a Book Club's Halloween party - they had read Pride & Prejudice and Zombies - and was surprised to learn that about a third of them had read the book.

Maaaaaybe breaking down the books into quarters and reading them one a week instead of the whole book in a month? I worry that the energy really goes out when it take longer than that.

gregory said:

I particularly recall when we tried Stranger in a Strange Land. I think Wu and I were the only ones who actually read it, so discussion got a bit dull - though EVERYONE was mad keen when it was selected !

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That book had some of the best advice I've ever seen for tarot readers. Heinlein had characters in it called "Witnesses." Ask them what color a white house was and they would say "It's white on this side." That was a far more interesting idea than "grokking." I think it's been almost 50 years since I read that one.