This week’s topic: Discussion groups. Do you belong to any (besides Early Reviewers)? Approximately how many? Are there any in particular that you participate in more avidly? How often do you check?
I read many of the threads in the Early Reviewers groups. I just have to be careful about posts dealing with books on my wishlist … I don’t want to come across any spoilers! I check the Early Reviewer threads about twice a day.
A BN First Look group was recently created on LibraryThing. I joined that since I’ll be reading Stewart O’Nan’s Songs for the Missing through this program. I also check the activity on the BN First Look site itself. I look at these a few times a week; this will pick up once the online discussion for the book begins in earnest.
There are quite a few sites and blogs that I lurk behind the scenes on … reading the posts but not often commenting. I often feel that if I don’t have anything to add to a discussion I don’t want to simply chime in with a “me too!”.
One not-book-related discussion board that I’m on is flylady. I like the “daily cleaning missions” and her idea of concentrating on one zone of the house each week. With four kids I’ll take all the organizational tips I can get.
Click on any of the blog links in the right column to see what other LibraryThing Early Reviewers have to say about online discussion groups.
Flylady sounds like something I should check out!
I lurk a lot too in different forums and blogs not all connected with books, one is even 1970s music site. But at the moment LT is the main forum for me.
Flylady can get overwhelming; I can manage the “daily missions” to keep me on track if it’s been a busy week, but I scroll past many of the reminders (helpful to some people, I’m sure; just not what I need right now!)
I have to change my estimate of how often I check the LT boards. We’ve had such a lot of great postings lately, it seems I’m there about 4 times a day!