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Okay! If we’re looking ahead at start dates for a FAKER book club, would there be any interest in discussing the format of our group conversation? I’ve loved the chapter-per-day format but it might be fun to try a different approach.

Here’s one idea:

I’m thinking maybe we have a “discussion leader” who introduces a daily question or theme. Each day, we could cover two new chapters, and the daily topic would cover the whole book up to that point. Towards the end of the book, we could use the daily questions to explore the book’s themes.

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I’m going to use RESTART as an example. If we had used this “discussion leader” format, it might have gone like this:

> DAY 1: Jade might have kicked off the discussion by seeing how much everyone knows about amnesia and if we’ve read other stories where a main character loses her/his memory.

> DAY 2: Logan could have asked about how old we all thought Chase and Shoshanna and the others are, and which one we related to most (or which one we were most like at that age).

> DAY 3: Marlo could have asked which actors we’d want to see playing each character if RESTART ever gets made into a movie.

> DAY 4: I might have asked everyone to consider the book’s cover illustration and what it represents.

> DAY 5: J.R. might have brought up the way family dynamics are presented in the book so everyone could consider how family relationships affect how people see and interact with others.

> DAY 6: Jade could have asked us if Shoshanna was actually crazy or just lost in rage when thinking about Chase.

> DAY 7: I could have posed the idea of self-identity and self-discovery and asked which characters were experiencing the biggest alterations in how they viewed themselves.

> DAY 8: Maybe J.R. would have asked everyone to consider how the theme of friendship and loyalty was important to RESTART.

> DAY 9: Maybe Jade would have introduced the theme of bullying and adolescent relationships.

> DAY 10: Logan could have suggested talking about redemption and second chances.

> DAY 11: Marlo could have asked what a RESTART sequel would include if it looked at all the main characters maybe four or five years later, when they were seniors in high school.

Those are all just examples to give an idea of how the “discussion leader” format would work. Any thoughts? Different ideas?