Return to the Reading Room!

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Responses to the poll about new group reading rather resoundingly said yes (15/15 respondents), and then fairly resoundingly also voted for a return to the Reading Room style where we chose a random Pros story for everyone to read before reviewing it. The results were:

A random read-a-long (the old Reading Room back!) - 6(42.9%)
A novel read-a-long - 3(21.4%)
A themed read-a-long (the old Reading Room back!) - 3(21.4%)
An author read-a-long - 2(14.3%)

There were also three requests to hold off until November, when the Big Bang was over, which I very much understand for those individuals, who are all involved in the Big Bang, but to be honest that would leave the rest of us tapping our fingers throughout September, and would also mean my launching and organising when I'm actually starting to get busy myself in November, with Pros Christmas comms and exchanges and so on, so... I think that if we start now we can either vote to take a break in October, or choose to read Big Bang stories in October, or just carry on throughout anyway, and then also if I need someone else to take over organising for a few weeks in November, it'll be up and running enough that it will be easier.

I'm going to suggest that we follow previous Reading Room timings, which I think worked pretty well - stories anounced on a Monday, reading discussion post made on a Friday. Hopefully that will give people enough time for reading during the week, and to join in the chat over the weekend. Let me know if this is a bad idea this time...

Next - how do we choose the stories, if they really are going to be random?! I do have suggestions... *g*
1) In the past we've asked people to suggest stories in comments, put them in a list, and done it that way. This is probably the most inclusive of old and new stories, but also depends on the tastes of whoever comments rather than being random (and also at least one person has already read the story!)
2) We could use the Circuit Archive's Random function to choose a story - but this limits stories to those on Circuit, and the archivist stopped posting new stories in 2009 (except for a friend's story in 2010).
3) We could kill two birds with one stone, and have a play with the UK Circuit Library... *g* We could simply start with Folder 1 and begin to work through the stories there, which would be absolutely random to all of us! I can say that most of them are online or ProsLib, and I could send out the ones that aren't to people who might want to join in.

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But if anyone would like to start this week (so that I announce a story tomorrow to chat from Friday) then please suggest a story in the comments below - or let me know that you would like to play this weekend, cos if there are a few of us, then we can. *g*