We had our annual Book Group Book choosing meeting on Sunday.
As always, we followed the rules. Every member brought two books along - vetted beforehand for duplicates, because there are always duplicates. (The year, a couple of people wanted to put up Charlotte McConaghy's Wild Dark Shore - two others wanted to up Fredrik Backman's My Friends. This is why we check!)
Selection criteria is as follows:
- The book must be fiction
- It should be under 500 pages long - a few more is fine - just don't try to put up Anna Karenina.
- It should be easily obtainable at bookshops, libraries or online.
- Keep your choices to literature or decent popular fiction.
Then the lollies got bagged up. Everybody is given a bag of 25 assorted lollies at the meeting to use to vote for the books. Once the books have been championed you put as many lollies on the books you want to read. You can't vote for your own books.
This is where we landed. The four books at the end weren't selected. We've read a lot of Backman over the years, and there were so many good books to read.
To be honest, we've barely had a bad book in the last fifteen years.
We then sorted out the reading order. Lighter books are relegated to the start and end of the year, heavier books for the cooler months. I'm just glad that I'm part of such a committed book group.
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