You hold it at the thin end and then hit people with the fat end. Oh, wait--that's the wrong sort of club isn't it..? Shame. - Pete

Does it mean I'm old that the first thing I thought of was Captain Caveman? - Zoe

I'm assuming there's a link with Twitter in there somewhere. Tweet a provocative comment about a book, then all come over here to argue about it? - Mike

I did grab the twitter account but its got nothing on it right now. Maybe have a twitter poll each week/month/year for a book to read then all argue over it after having read it. Never been in a book club before, so no preconceptions of how it should work - Zoe

The book group at work meets about once every 6 - 8 weeks and chats about the book for about 30 minutes, then chats about other stuff for about an hour. Not the ideal model for a book group, but it's all very relaxed and you get some interesting stuff. The only problem is getting a book everyone agrees on- I find it really hard to trawl through something I'm really not interested, and I think most other people in my book group are the same. - Mike

I think Natali's suggestion should also happen, but I wonder if there should be a certain book every once in a while that everyone tries to read. - Mike

or a certain theme, but agreed, even if most people are reading a set book, posting about other stuff good or bad seem fine. - Zoe