Grab a Buddy & Read a Book

[Lauren]

Sarah wrote: "Yay!! I'm glad you're interested! Would it be ok to start Storm Born in January?"

Yup, January is great for me :0)

[Sarah]

Awesome!

[Lauren]

That's great, Lauri.
The more the merrier :0)

[Sarah]

Awesome and like Lauren said the more the merrier!

[Sarah]

I just wanted to make sure that we're still on for Storm Born in January. As soon as I get confirmation I'll create a thread for us! :D

[Lauren]

Sarah wrote: "I just wanted to make sure that we're still on for Storm Born in January. As soon as I get confirmation I'll create a thread for us! :D"

Absolutely, I have it all ready to go on my iPod :0)

[Sarah]

Is there a certain day you want to start?

[Sarah]

Here's the thread

[Lauren]

I have a couple of buddy reads at the beginning of the month so how about the 16th?

[Sarah]

Sounds good to me.

[Lauren]

Great!
Thanks for setting up the thread, Sarah.

[Brooke]

Would anyone like to read , , , or with me?

[Leah]

I might be interested in Night Study in a little bit but I am just working on reading the first one now!

[Cee]

I have a few books on my TBR I've been meaning to read if anyone wants to join me. ,

[Steph, Serious series addict]

Enjoy, BnB!

[Debbie's Spurts (D.A.)]

Sionna wrote: "I have a few books on my TBR I've been meaning to read if anyone wants to join me. A Game of Thrones, The Sin Eater’s Daughter, The Queen's Poisoner...

The Queen's Poisoner is free to borrow with Amazon prime if that helps anyone (their new "prime reading" program).

[Drea]

I was frustrated to not be able to find any local bookclubs, so I looked for online clubs where you can instant chat and couldn't find any. So I found a hosting company and created a site I'd like to test out to see if it's conducive for buddy reads/group reads. It's called Page Dropper.

I'm using one of my books as a guinea pig to offer up for free, if anyone is interested in beta testing this site for me. The site has chatrooms and IM, you just register and then you can talk to anyone else who is a member (no gimmicks, it's totally free, and I don't send newsletters because I hate junk mail too!)

Here's the book, a New Adult fantasy adventure about a cursed street in Salem, where a book store can open the world of certain books to readers and pull them in (It reads as a stand alone, although it's #2 in the series):

If you'd like to buddy read it, please check out the chatroom I set up for the book and let me know how it goes, if it's user-friendly, etc. Thank you so much! http://www.pagedropper.spruz.com/chat...

[Steph, Serious series addict]

Hi, Drea, welcome to SOS! Sadly, I'll have to pass on your offer, but others may be interested. Thanks for sharing with us and best of luck with your test run. Sounds like a good idea, I hope it works out for you and know many will find it fun, if it does.

[Debbie's Spurts (D.A.)]

Drea wrote: "I was frustrated to not be able to find any local bookclubs, so I looked for online clubs where you can instant chat and couldn't find any. So I found a hosting company and created a site I'd like ..."

You might also have better participation starting a read of it over at http://www.readups.com/ (I think it's also seen some use by some publishers like Harper Collins).

From that site's description:

"Meet up in a #Readup

1. Grab Something to READ

2. Set TIMEFRAME

3. DISCUSS inside

A ReadUp is a social reading experience. Think of it as meeting up inside a book.

ReadUps uses a web-based reading system for tablets and laptops. Create a ReadUp event and invite friends to read with you for a limited amount of time, sharing comments on paragraphs. It's free. Distributed. Ephemeral. Give people the URL to your ReadUp and you're good to go! When allotted time runs out, the ReadUp disappears."

[Steph, Serious series addict]

GTK, thanks for sharing, Debbie.