BF Book Club

[DanaC]

Oh I am soooo excited. As some of you may know, I am a big fan and regular customer/listener of the Big Finish Doctor Who audio range. They do other stuff as well as Doctor Who, but that's their main range and is what I am mainly interested in (much as I loved Sapphire and Steel when it was on tv, I don't have a great desire to reconnect through audio plays, and am likewise fairly uninterested in their Doctor Unbound range).

Well, I also regularly frequent the forums there as it's so nice to talk about DW related stuff with other bat shit crazy Whovians (am reclaiming the term 'bat shit crazy' as a positive thing, on account of I really like bats).

Well, a few weeks ago one of the regulars suggested that we set up a BF 'Book Club' where we listen to a particular audio book and then have a discussion about it. Quite a few peeps were into the idea (including myself, I was thrilled at the prospect) and there were all kinds of suggestions about how we should go about it. Mostly people wanted to keep it DW related, but there were also suggestions that we shouild maybe include some o fthe DW spinoff stuff they do (Dalek stories, Companion Chronicles etc).

So we've been batting this about now for weeks, with different people coming up with different suggestions for format and structure etc etc. I was beginning to think we'd never get it started. But now we have *cheers* I am fair bouncing up and down with enthusiasm and excitement. So there. What fun! We have a timetable set up for the first few audiobooks. A really nice mix. And the site mods have set us up our own official bookclub thread and timetabled it out for us. I've bought/downloaded the first one and am going to listen to it tonight *hops up and down excitedly*

So, wanted to share my excitement with my homey dwellars.

But also.... am wondering if a bookclub would work in the Cellar? ...(not Doctor Who books...I realise that's an acquired taste:P) what does everyone think? It struck me when I was posting in the What are you reading thread, that it might be really nice if we all agreed a book to read and discuss. I'm always struck by how varied our collective tastes are, and yet how often Dwellars have read the same books.

Might be fun?