llrtydlogoDrea and I are super excited to get into our inaugural book club discussion for the newly formed Literary League: Read ’til YA Drop young adult literature book club.  We wanted to take the opportunity to both welcome you and encourage you to jump right in to our first discussion on Catching Fire.  Our conversation online will be occurring in the newly formed Facebook group with the same name as this club.  To join simply click this link:

Literary League Facebook Group

Once a member please remember the guidelines listed below:

  1. Discussion will occur based on the assumption that everyone has read the entire book.  This is not a chapter by chapter situation.  As such expect that major plot points will likely be revealed.
  2. Any one participating can start a discussion thread. We’ll usually start out with a few posts to get conversation started but goodness knows we can’t think of everything so if there is something specific you’d like to talk about by all means start that discussion!
  3. This group is open to anyone and everyone! Young, old, boy, girl…. Please keep in mind however, that no one will be expected to censor themselves so if you are uncomfortable with the content of a particular discussion or feel it isn’t age appropriate please forgo accessing it further.
  4. As it relates to freedom of speech please remember to treat each other with respect and civility. Not everyone will agree on every point so keep discussion truthful but hater free.
  5. Anyone believed to be flaming, harassing, or generally inciting participants will be removed from the group and blocked from further access.  Again, open disagreement is alright -  nasty behavior is not!

Depending on how things progress other guidelines may follow, but since we’re all responsible and respectful individuals I suspect we’ll be good to go with just the above!

Part of the fun of our monthly discussion is a Skype chat.  For this month’s Catching Fire chat we’re planning to meet at 4pm EST on Sunday, October 4th.  If you’d like to participate please send your Skype information to either Drea or I (via comment, email or Twitter) and we’ll be sure to include you.

Drea and I also want to be proactive for the future so we’re going to take the opportunity to announce the titles for the next few months.  We want to be as even as we possibly can in concentrating attention on books that are both newly released and those that may have been sitting on the shelves a bit longer so we’re going to do our best to rotate book selections.

With that in mind these are the titles we’ll be discussing in coming months (dates still to be determined):

  • October – North of Beautiful by Justina Chen Headley and Dreaming Anastasia by Joy Preble
  • November – Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick
  • December -  Bloody Jack by L.A. Meyer

Many months we’ll have more than one book selection.  You can choose to participate in conversation on one or both but obviously you aren’t required to.  It’s totally up to you!  We just want to offer variety.

Now that all the business has been conducted let’s get to gabbing away, as you all know our first book selection is Suzanne Collins’ Catching Fire recently released by Scholastic Press.    Surf on over to the Facebook group and join in!