[open] a book club 📚

[phoenixdominant]

Type: Text
Sender ID: Phoenixdominant (Joshua Rosfield)
To: Public
Subject: An ordinary book club.
Warnings: tba.

[Due to the Garuda Incident, this post is coming from a very bedridden Joshua who is recovering from some bad injuries. So, he’s bored and desperately running out of books to read.]

Good afternoon,

It seems I've found myself with a surplus of free time this month, and with that realization comes the stark truth—I've exhausted my reading list.

So, I had an idea. Why not extend an invitation to others who might be interested in joining the book club that Tifa and I have been enjoying? Every few weeks, we gather to exchange ideas and thoughts on the current book we're reading, and it's led to some wonderful discussions.

While our tastes have leaned toward adventure and romance novels thus far, I'm open to exploring books from other genres to diversify our collection. Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

Here are a few of the books we've read so far:

"The Swashbuckling Misadventures of Captain Bumblebeard"
"Enchanted Hearts and Dragon Flames"
"Spells and Sword Swells"
"Quest for the Heartstone: A Tale of Love and Sorcery"
"Siren's Song: A Pirate's Passionate Plunder"
"That Time I Got Drunk and Yeeted A Love Potion At A Werewolf"

Although, I’m still not entirely certain what “yeeted” means. I only assume it means, “to throw”?

If you might be interested in joining in on our next reading, please do. As well as I’m taking suggestions for more books that the group might enjoy.

Sincerely,
Joshua.

Comments

[phoenixdominant]

I would be happy to see them. If you would like to join us, please do share your novels with us.

[Help please, he's so confused by this yeet/yote argument that he doesn't even want to touch it.]

[astudyinviolet]

[ Yeah, he doesn't get why it's such a big deal, especially after he gave a reasonable explanation that should have satisfied most parties. Their loss. ]

Do you regularly meet, or do meetings happen sporadically?

[ He has boxing lessons with big bro and is hoping there is no scheduling conflict. ]

[phoenixdominant]

With the nature of our journeys out at sea, it is sporadically. We like to pick a few book titles to read over the month and try to meet to discuss as least every couple of weeks. Would that the something you could manage?

[astudyinviolet]

Yes, that would be easily managed. Are we to obtain the titles ourselves each time?

[ Or since the club has grown in number, perhaps they can share books. ]

[phoenixdominant]

That or we can share copies if need be.

[Although with this many people he's not sure how they're going to get so many copies!!]

[astudyinviolet]

There is also the matter of what to do with the books once we've finished. I am only familiar with there being a library on Elah, but I do not believe these are would be welcome in its collection.

[ He could be wrong, but the library is closer to Sherlock's usual reading material. ]

[phoenixdominant]

That is a good question. Admittedly I did not think this far as I was not expecting such a turnout.

Perhaps we could donate some?

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[astudyinviolet]

If we could at least locate one donation site per leviathan, that could give us options to divide the titles among each.

[ A single library might not want ten copies of "That Time I Got Drunk and Yeeted A Love Potion At A Werewolf," but each site taking two would still solve the problem nicely. ]

[phoenixdominant]

That is a sounds idea... Although I may need someone who would be able to deliver to Elah. Are you with the paladins?

[astudyinviolet]

I am though I've yet to make many acquaintances on Elah.

[ Trying to limit travel by ship does hinder the building of a network. ]

[phoenixdominant]

[Is this man a paladin with too many corsair friends?]

I see. That is alright... I'll who I might find to help us.

[astudyinviolet]

[ No, just a man who isn't very sociable and also gets seasick. ]

In the event of there being no one else, I could attempt to build connections for this purpose.