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

[Wes Brodsky]

In my opinion, I would expect that, for any group, there could be occasions where most members of the group could not make it, just by random chance. There would be other times where we happen to pick a “turkey”. We can discuss why we think it is a “turkey”. Last Friday, again just by chance, both events happened for the same group.

 

 

From: reading-group [mailto:reading-group-bounces at lists.nesfa.org] On Behalf Of David G. Grubbs
Sent: Friday, October 06, 2017 6:57 PM
To: NESFA Reading Group
Subject: Re: [nesfa-reading-group] I don't think there needs to be a reading group meeting tonight.

 

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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