Bookdeyada!

[laliandra]

So, I am home for a weeks holiday on the Isle of Man. It's fairly lovely, I went to a wind orchestra concert and out for teas and lunches and such. I'm staying with my Granny and my Great Aunt, who are both, in the grand tradition of my family, crazy-awesome. Also their cat Alfie who is the least subtle cat in all the world. He likes to drape himself across my lap and demand stomach skritching. It's pretty good.

Anyway, I have been supposed to post about this for ages but my internet access here is limited and I have been distracted by trying to write make out scenes (ARGHARD). But I digress from the matter at hand, which is that I have exciting news!

So, books are great, right? And talking about books is great, and the internet is great and fandom, fandom is fantastic. Well, the lovely brimtoast and a couple of other equally lovely people (and myself) decided that the only way to make these things even better would be to combine them all.

So, we present bookdeyada , a fandom book club! And you should all come play with us! We are going to read abook a month and I loooooooove talking books with y'all and it's going to be SO MUCH FUN.

And yes it is called bookdeyada mainly for my own amusement (and hopefully the amusement of others).

You can go now and nominate a book for April. So, you should totally do that, or just wait for a decision and then join in the discussion. You don't need to be all Literary Criticism about it, you can just read the book and go EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! with other people. Just, book clubs are so much fun, but it isn't possible for everyone to get to a real life one . And in this book club you can compare characters to Remus from the Shoebox project or talk about slash and canon vs fanon and shipping, because it's a fandom book club. How cool is that?! I am excited! I don't know if the exclamation marks made this clear enough!

GO! THE POWER OF LAL COMPELS YOU! ADD US A FRIEND! NOMINATE A BOOK! READ THE SUPER COOL INTRO!

Or you can ask me questions first. But I recommend doing BOTH. Then come tell me all about how you have joined and how awesome it is going to be!

bookdeyada , bookdeyada , bookdeyada , bookdeyada !

Comments

[cellophane_ria.livejournal.com]

YAY! What a fantastic idea! I'm adding right now. I may be a very silent member, as I'm going through my usual spring!depression!fail and everything I do is soooo sloooow, but perhaps it will go away soonest. Comparing characters to Shoebox Remus is a must, anyway, so. :)
You are awesome. &hearts

[hanelissar.livejournal.com]

I AM VERY EXCITED! AND BOOKDEYADA IS THE GREATEST TITLE FOR A BOOK CLUB EVER AND THERE SHOULD BE A SONG WHICH WE SING! OR JUST WRITE AND AMUSE OURSELVES WITH!

....I will try and calm down now. But I am VERY excited! :D You are awesome-sauce people with awesome-sauce ideas!

<3

xxx

[laliandra.livejournal.com]

Isn't it? I am so excited!

Silent members are loved also &hearts

I am sorry that you are feeling down, my dear. Is there anything I can do?

I hope to find MANY characters that can even hold a candle to our dear boy and all his footly bits.

You are awesome, yourself, you know... The icon may say "in defiance of common sense" but that part is untrue...

[laliandra.livejournal.com]

ME TOOOOOOOO! I LIKE IT A LOT AND DO KIND OF PLAN ON WRITING US A SONG OR MAYBE WE COULD ALL COME UP WITH A VERSE OR SOMETHING BUT ANYWAY! BOOKDEYADA!

Thank you darling! I can't wait! I can't decide what I want to nominate! I am still excited despite the fact that we have actually been planning this for a few weeks now!

<3

[cellophane_ria.livejournal.com]

Book clubs are the most fantastic things, right along with kittens, lazy mornings in bed, and little fuzzy elephants. I am excited!

No, thank you, dear, it's all right, I just have to somehow bumble through. It happens, and the good thing is that I know that it passes someday, so pfffft to feeling down.
How are you feeling? Hopefully family holiday makes everything better? *hugs*

Ah, the footly bits. And his clandestine lover, the semicolon. I may revisit my Shoebox icons, I think, nostalgically...

[&hearts &hearts &hearts]!

[branquignole.livejournal.com]

Bookdeyada is an extremely awesome title! I don't know if I will join yet because such a book club would prompt me to buy many books and I can absolutely not afford this at the moment! And I would probably participate very irregularly anyway. :( Or something.

But: YAY. And also: LAL. <3

[pigrescuer.livejournal.com]

Now when people go 'why do you know all these people on the internet?' and I go 'it's.. um...a sort of.. book club..?' it WON'T BE A LIE

:D

[laliandra.livejournal.com]

:D glad you like! You should join anyway, you could always lurk. Besides, we have plans for members who can't afford books. I mean, they are vague and fuzzy plans. But nonetheless!

<3BRAN<3

[laliandra.livejournal.com]

THIS WAS MY EXACT THOUGHT PROCESS.

:D!

[branquignole.livejournal.com]

Haha, well, I'm not that poor- which is rather the problem. I always have some spare money; the thing is that I should spend it on things like my driving license and stuff, and a book club would tempt me to spend it on... well, books. And it's already hard enough to resist without one!

I will join and lurk though!

[kaiserkuchen.livejournal.com]

BOOOK CLUUUUUUB! And awesomesauce-- when I am settled in BKK I will actually be able to buy books again, fuck yeah I might even participate :DD

PS LIKE EVERYONE HAS SAID, THAT NAME IS ~~MAGICAL <33

[laliandra.livejournal.com]

Oo, little fuzzy elephants! I can't wait! I love bookclubs with a love that cannot be textually rendered...

Well, I wish you only good things and better times. Pffft to it!

I am feeling alright. Family holiday is making me feel very good about things, tis true. There is a cat which loves me whatever, which is very comforting. *hugs*

<3SHOEBOX<3 I get all incoherent just thinking about it.

CAAAAAAASEY LOOK AT YOUR ~EYEBROW

[laliandra.livejournal.com]

YESSSSSSS. That is awesome. I plan on forcing you to participate for your own good, obviously. I will do it with LOVE.

:D I was like, fuck it, let's go with this, it may be ridic but it makes me happy!

[laliandra.livejournal.com]

Well alright then. Lurkers will be cherished equally. And you should nominate a book that you already own. Problem solved!