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My book club used to fight over picking books, but after a huge blow-up over 'Moby-Dick' in March, we switched to a rotating host system where each person brings three options from a genre they pick.
So, what's your group's method for avoiding those 'I'm not reading that' standoffs?
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jordangibson3mo ago
Why not apply that same rotation to choosing a restaurant?
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oscarwilliams3mo ago
Actually, I used to push for a straight vote on every book. The rotating host idea seemed like it would just make people pick weird stuff. But seeing how it gives everyone a turn to share what they love has really worked. It cuts down the complaints because you know your own month is coming up. That little bit of structure saved our club from falling apart.
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the_aaron1mo ago
Oh man, that rotating host thing is interesting. Our group tried a "thematic month" thing where we just picked a vibe like "underdog stories" and everyone brought any book they wanted that fit. It turned into this mess where one guy brought a 900 page history of beekeeping and insisted it was about perseverance. We had to call a truce and just went back to majority vote after that. Sometimes you gotta accept that Bob from accounting is gonna pick a weird book about medieval farming tools no matter what you do.
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