Getting Started

Ladies,

First and foremost, thank you for joining the book club that I (we) have been talking about for oh so long. I think it would be easier to organize if it is managed through a blog of sorts, and then this won't crowd our emails. As it stands, there are currenyly five members, Me, Miss Elaine, J boogie, Erb the Love Bug, and last but not least Triple D T (sorry, but your email addy made me do it). At any rate, here is how I see us getting started.

First, we each invite one person to join the book club. It doesn't matter if this person knows no one in the group but you but actually has an interest in being part of the book club. This also allows for diversity in the group (think about it, had I chosen just my friends, nothing would ever be discussed). Once that one person is added to the group, you should have admin rights in the blog to add them so that they too can post (I believe everyone should have an equal say). However, please let them know that in the beginning we need to keep our numbers small so we are not inviting extra members at this time.

After we have our first ten members, we all need to post, three books that reveal something about ourselves - our favorite book (this lets us know what you like to read), the last book read (this lets us know your potential limits), and a book that you want to read (this helps to create our first book list). This is also a good place and time to post just a small introduction to the group prior to our first meeting.

Since I decided to start this mission, I will host the first meeting, which given everyone's crazy calendar will probably be in June since May is already here.

Just a few housekeeping items as folks like to say:
- if you choose to invite a guy, please see if there will be any other guys joining the group. I would hate for the cheese to stand alone.
- feel free to help spruce up the blog as I am writing this while sitting under the dryer. This is a group effort.
- is you cannot make all the meetings, be sure to leave items of note here, as this will help the group hear your voice (can you tell I just finished this semester because I sound just like my instructors).

At any rate, ladies thanks for what I am certain will be an interesting journey!!!

Ms. Tea