[nesfa-reading-group] I don't think there needs to be a reading group meeting tonight.

[David G. Grubbs]

Besides, the snapshot opinions were all negative. No need to get together
to trash a book.  (I hadn't read it in 40+ years, so didn't remember how
scatterbrained it was.)

Let's pick better books.

And it wouldn't hurt to recruit a few more participants who plan to show up
regularly. It is OK to have a large group of intermittent attendees, but
there needs to be at least 6 people to have a decent book discussion of
this sort. That means a core group of regulars of at least 10 to allow for
illness, and a total group size of 30 to allow for people who only attend
when they like the book or when the moon is full.




On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 6:41 PM, David G. Grubbs <dggrubbs at gmail.com> wrote:

> We have 11 people on the reading-group mailing list.  These four people
> say they can't make it:
>
>
>    - Louis Galvez
>    - Michael Sharrow
>    - Rebecca DeVendra
>    - Wes Brodsky
>
>
> These five people attend so rarely they don't even tell us when they'll be
> missing:
>
>    - Chip Hitchcock
>    - Gay Ellen Dennett
>    - Michael Kerpan
>    - Suford Lewis
>    - Tony Lewis
>
>
> That leaves me and Robert Luoma. Robert and I can finish our discussion in
> 5 minutes, which doesn't require a group meeting.
>
> So, since the nominal group leader didn't provide a substitute, I declare
> tonight's meeting to be cancelled unless several of you say you plan to
> show up.
>
>
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