RFS thread

If someone were to make a spiffy looking banner advertising this forum I would definitely put it in my signature. I would make one myself, but I only have MS Paint.

Moving it to the Lounges category will definitely help.

In terms of community building, I always find that a GD helps build a core community of posters, but the nature of this forum is such that people will just talk about the books they love really.

Maybe some sort of Book of the Month feature. I think a new header would be cool as well, while I like the current header I think it could be expanded, maybe more classic titles on it or something.

Book Club sounds like a great idea, personally wouldn't be able to participate until the summer though unless y'all would want to read some of my university novels like Frankenstein

I don't have quite as much of a workload as IG or Dudeguy, but I also think that having a book club on short stories is a great idea. They could be held on a weekly or bi-monthly basis and we could have a book club on a novel during the summer months or break periods.

I also thought it would be nice to have a quote thread. You'll be hard pressed to find a member who doesn't believe that books are the most wonderful source of deep and thought evoking quotes. Maybe we could pick one or two quotes from a certain work and discuss them?

I think if we can get one off to good start we could be able to keep up its longevity. I kind of like the short story/poetry idea for the school year season.

Also, here is the banner RiotType kindly fixed up for my request. An example of what I was thinking is in my signature now.

Tell me which book, but some of you lazy bums will have to show up. I read the Clockwork Orange a while back for one of these book clubs and that died out. *hisses*

Well, I suppose we could do Frankenstein, as IG and I would already have it covered.

As for short stories, I've been wanting to read The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol. The Nose and The Diary of a Madman also by Gogol are both very good. I also think any short story by Kafka would work well.