Gaertk at aol.com writes: > In a message dated Wed, 12 Jun 2002 3:39:25 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Arin Komins <akomins at midway.uchicago.edu> writes: > > > On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Thomas Yan wrote: > > > [snip] > > > >> Idea: The readalong charter should include the > >> requirement that *this* mailing list be informed of the > >> following: > >> > >> + The start of a readalong discussion of a book. > >> > >> + The end of a readalong discussion of a book / > >> The start of a readalong discussion of which book to > >> do next. > > > > I'd like to second this, as I'd like to discuss some of > > Brust's books (Agyar and To Reign in Hell are my main > > ones), but don't really feel like joining in for many of > > the Dragaera ones. > > It never occurred to me to discuss non-Dragaera books on > here (or there). I don't see any reason not to though. While we've named the site, and the primary mailing lsit, "Dragaera", we definitely intended to cover *all* of Steven's works. So it doesn't seem strange to me for the readalong list to wish to do so. > My vision of the readalong list was place to pick apart the > books looking for clues to stuff in other books (including > ones not yet written), and there just isn't much point in > doing that with the stand alone books. YMMV Library reading groups and such frequently do standalone books. There isn't the same hunt for connections between books that you have with a series, but there's still plenty to discuss just in the single book. > Hmm. Now that I think about it, I wouldn't mind doing the > Liavek stories on the readalong list, including the ones > not written by Brust. Would that be too far off charter? Off-hand, I'm pretty sure it's not something we'd want to say "no" to. If the readalong list wants to do so at some future time, I mean. -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net / New TMDA anti-spam in test John Dyer-Bennet 1915-2002 Memorial Site http://john.dyer-bennet.net Book log: http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/Ouroboros/booknotes/ New Dragaera mailing lists, see http://dragaera.info