and is there one already started?
That's a good idea - I've just started one in a thread called "A book club - with a difference"
Please feel free to contribute
Let’s have our own variable book club here 
Like ArchaeC, al ot of the books I read are not ones most people would find interesting as their a bit niche and academic, I've got a really good one on Penda, the last Anglo-Saxon pagan king. I also tend to argue out loud with books, especially academic ones where I disagree with the authors point of view.
I really dislike mainstream fiction, family saga's rags to riches, romatic stuff, I either don't understand it or it gives me the ick.
The fiction I read is mostly crime fiction with a smattering of historical fiction too or even better history and mystery, like Steven Saylor's Gordianus series, set in Rome before and during the rise of Julius Caeser, Gordianus is one of those people who were never there, but should of been if you know what I mean. He solves a mysrery, usually a murder whilst moving around the great and good and the up and coming, like Cicero. You get a really good insight into what was going on at ground level as well as higher up, the motivations etc. The author is a classicist and it's like he's putting flesh on the bones of history.
Wow they sound like the sort of books I would be very much interested in reading - I may try them out. I’ve been struggling with reading for some time (it used to be my favourite , I always remember sneaking to bed around 8yo reading the secret Seven and the Famous Five under my covers pretending to have gone to sleep but being too addicted to try) I struggle to focus these days though and have been experimenting with audiobooks.
somebody recommended The Satsuma Complex to me as a good engaging read to refocus with…
Loving your clubbing comment too!
Might be nice to share (what we think are) good books with people though - with no rules for having to answer set Qs etc, etc. I'm a big fan of Kristin Hannah at the mo - read three of her books so far, and plan to read more. Her levels of research are amazing. Today I finished The Women (about Vietnam war), and previously read The Four Winds (dust bowl) and The Nightingale (Nazi occupation, France). They are not chuckle-fests by any means - but I love them! All are focused on female experience in (extremely) testing circumstances.
I would be the same as youTheCatWoman I’m fussy about the types of novels I read and the other books I enjoy are either too specialised or often not of interest to many people.
Haha I like you’re reference to the clubbing.
i guess so and sometimes if you feel like you have to engage by reading the book choice of the month and it’s a bit chewy then I guess it’s difficult to contribute towards a conversation with something you’re not interested in breaking down.
maybe people would be interested in sharing their favourite novels? Fact / fiction / biographies and what they like about them?
I'm not in any book club, as far as I know theres not ne on here.
I've thought about joining a book club, but I'm fussy about what I read and probably wouldn't get on with a lot of what others would want to read. I've looked at notes and questions from authors to book clubs and just end up thinking that answering all that lot would put me off a book I'd enjoyed.
I'm not the most clubbable of people, except maybe with a blunt object, I don't really enjoy doing that much stuff with others and don't work well within a group.
