Read Me (Guidelines, Book Club descriptions, FAQ, additional information)

[K. Y.]

Hi!
So, welcome to the club :D
New members, here's the six basic things you need to know:
1) You must join this group to participate in any discussions.
2) After that, you can join as many book clubs as you want (each is in its own folder). You don't even have to be active in all of them. Say, you really like this one book but you don't like any of the other books in that group, you can still discuss that book with the other members, but not the other ones posted for that book club.
3) There'll be a new book for each book club at the beginning of every month, and you have until the end of that month to read it. The next month you can discuss that book, while reading the new book selection for that month. If you finish a book early, you can always start discussing it any time you want!
4) If you really don't like or don't want to read the book selection, at least read the first 20 pages. If it still doesn't hold your interest, you can quit and say why you didn't like it.
5) Just because you didn't read a book in the month the club read it, doesn't mean you can comment earlier/later. You can talk about any of the books whenever you want.
6) When talking about a book, make sure to give us Spoiler Alerts if you're going to be writing something important about the plot, because some of us might not have finished reading the book yet.

About the sections of the group:
Book Rant: This is basically where you can recommend books for the book club to read. Suggestions must be written in rant form:
-Include run-on sentences
-Repeated use of the word "awesome"
-Use of threats and bribes to get people to read it
-CAPITAL LETTERS AND EXCLAMATION MARKS!! (must be combined as well)
Book Clubs: Each book club has its own discussion folder with the genre as its title, inside it all the books read/being read so far for that specific genre will be stored as topics, along with the month it was read in. Read more about the different book clubs in the next bolded topic below.
Author Discussion: Also in its own folder, this is where you can discuss your favourite authors, recently famous authors, hot authors, dead authors, any kind of author. Contact me and tell me which author you'd like to see being discussed, and I'll created a topic for him/her.

Descriptions for each of the book clubs and their folders:
In case you're wondering exactly what each book club will be about, or are having trouble picking, this might help (I'll add new descriptions as they are created):
General book club: if you like a healthy mix of anything, from action to sci-fi!
Action and adventure: Quests, heroes, and shooting scenes! Anyone who's a fan of books like The Hunger Games, Percy Jackson, The Roar, and The City of Ember belong here. The books in here will keep your attention and excitement the whole way through.
Comedy and Humour: Any funny books that will have you laughing your head off on every page. Examples: Dear George Clooney: Please Marry My Mom, The Kane Chronicles, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Al Capone Does My Shirts, etc.
Graphics: Any sort of comic book or collection, whether it's an actual story, or more like the Funny Pages in the newspaper. Eg. Calvin and Hobbes, Bone, Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief: The Graphic Novel, and more. Picture books (Big Nate: In a Class by Himself, The Cat in the Hat, etc.) don't count!
Fantasy: Dungeons, dragons, mystical portals, and kings and queens all belong in this section. This is the place that has Dragon Rider, Inkheart, Gideon the Cutpurse, and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
Romance: Any books that have romance as the main problem/objective/topic. Stuff like Twilight, Matched, Shiver, and The Boy on Cinnamon Street belong here. Things that have romance as a secondary plot, however, such as the Hunger Games, do not!
Mystery: Books that will have you guessing and angsting over the solution to a puzzle, crime, whatever, until the very end! This is where Sherlock Holmes, Nancy Drew, and Chasing Verneer belong.
Sci-fi: Futuristic contraptions, dystopian civilizations, aliens, zombies, Frankenstein monsters and mad scientists are in this category. Here you'll find things like The War of the Worlds, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Divergent, and The Time Machine.
Horror: This is where you'll find the creepy, the scary, and the downright gory. Edgar Allen Poe, True Ghost Stories, and other dark material.
For Older Readers: Books geared to a more near-adult audience, like American Gods, Jude the Obscure, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and Creatures of Light And Darkness.
Classics: A better name would be old - Call of the Wild, The Iliad, To Kill a Mockingbird, Tom Sawyer, Metamorphoses, The Princess Bride, and such.
Historical Fiction: Stories that are based in real events in history and adapted into a fictional work, such as The Royal Diaries, Fever 1793, Catherine called Birdy, White Fang, My Brother Sam is Dead, and The Boy in the Striped Pajamas.
Realistic Fiction: For people who enjoy reading about people whose lives are similar to ours - so real they might actually exist somewhere. Examples are Thirteen Reasons Why, Are You There God? It's Me Margaret, Dirty Little Secrets, The Absolutely True Diary of A Part-Time Indian, Frindle, Thirteen Little Envelopes, and The Landry News.
Poetry and Songs: Collections of poems (Limerick Book, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell), epic poems (The Odyssey, The Divine Comedy), hymns and songs (The Homeric Hymns) go here.
Plays: This is where fans of Shakespeare, Aristophanes, and the like will enjoy themselves! Plays of any kind, from Ancient Greece to Medieval Europe to screenplays in films.

FAQ
Post any questions you have about this group here and I'll answer it as soon as possible.
Anything really important will be added to this post so new members can see it when they join.