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Pro tip: stop doing the discussion questions at the end, our group ditched them and people actually talk now
We had 9 people at my Tuesday group in Boise and after a retired teacher there asked why I was handing out question sheets like homework, we scrapped them cold and let people argue about the ending of Beloved for 90 minutes with zero prompts, which was the most alive that room has felt in ages, so now I want to know if any other group has dropped the questions and what happened, or are we the only ones who think the little printed list was quietly killing the whole thing?
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fionaa3525d ago
My sister in Portland said her library book club tried something like this last spring. The leader read about a study from some university that said open talks beat guided ones for keeping people coming back. They did it for 6 weeks and their head count went from 7 to 13. I heard on a podcast too that the whole point is people want to talk about what hit them, not answer someone else's checklist. Your Beloved night sounds like proof of that. The sheets were basically training wheels nobody asked for.
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