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[frameacloud]

By the way: membership, posting, and commenting are now all open on t_o_book_club. Have a ball. Go wild and discuss whatever's on your mind about these books.

Out of the 38 to 45 people who are in (or watching) this community, only 6 voted in the poll for choosing the next book. What's the deal with that?

If you didn't think any of the suggested books were interesting enough, you could suggest some different ones from the book list-- I just selected those four because I figured they would be relatively easy to find and have more than a chapter's worth of on-topic stuff in them.

Comments

[altivo.livejournal.com]

I abstained because I knew I wasn't going to be able to fit this one in due to the holiday schedule and NaNoWriMo. I'm still interested and will be back when the next one comes around. :)

[frameacloud]

Okay, cool.

[arethinn]

I don't own any of the books and don't have plans to buy any books until I find a new job. Since I wouldn't be able to participate in the discussion, it don't make no never-mind to me which book is selected.

[frameacloud]

It doesn't have to be about buying books. There's still the library, book swaps such as BookMooch.com, borrowing a book from a friend (possibly by mail), that sort of thing.

[arethinn]

Earth Angels
The Veils Edge
From Elsewhere: Being ET in America
Totem Magic: Dance of the Shapeshifter

Bookmooch.com: I suppose; I haven't looked into that.
Borrow from a friend: I don't know anyone who owns these books.
Library: ...I had simply assumed that my local library didn't have any of these, because their metaphysical collection is historically very poor, and while some library somewhere would certainly have them that cross-country ILL is a bit cumbersome; but apparently they do have Totem Magic (it's in the catalog anyway - whether it's actually on the shelf and not stolen, as such books commonly are, is another matter). So since the poll appears to be closed to further voting, I'll just state my vote for Totem Magic here.

[arethinn]

Suggestion - maybe in the next poll, add boxes for "I can't participate this time, I have no preference, I would like to suggest an alternate book", so if this is the case for someone it's clear and it doesn't look like they just missed the poll or whatever?

[frameacloud]

That's a good idea. I'll do that in the next poll. Thank you.

[arethinn]

Stupid "database unavailable" apparently meaning "actually, we posted your comment, but couldn't load the page showing it was posted." Sorry about the multiple notifies you'll get.

[frameacloud]

That's okay.