Sign one out
Find a book in the card catalog and hit “I’ll read along.” Ebook, print, or audio all count.
GenX Detention Club · The book club
The Book Report Library
Flip through the card catalog, sign out a book, and read along with Jim one chapter at a time. Class starts once enough readers sign a book out: 1 for a standalone, 3 for a series. No late fees. No librarian giving you the look.
How the Book Report works
Readers start class
1 for a standalone, 3 for a series (not counting Jim). Sign a book out and it moves to Suggested. Once enough readers are in, Jim moves it to In Class Now and posts Chapter 1.
A chapter a week
Or one every two weeks when Jim’s juggling a few. Slow readers welcome. Nobody’s timing you.
Talk it out, then grade it
Every chapter gets talked through on the podcast, and the conversation lives in the comments on that chapter’s YouTube video. When we finish the last chapter, the book is Graded.
Fell behind? Only read half? Come anyway. Half a book report is still more than most of us turned in back in the day.
The Card Catalog
Don’t see it? Suggest a book →- In class now Being read. Late joiners welcome.
- On the shelf Jim has it. Sign it out and it moves to Suggested.
- Suggested Readers signed it out. Once enough are in (1 for a standalone, 3 for a series), Jim moves it to In Class Now and posts Chapter 1.
- Jim’s Wishlist Jim wants to read it. It goes on the shelf once he gets a copy.
- Book Suggestions Suggested by the audience. Vote for the ones you want. Jim adds the favorites to his Wishlist.
- Graded We finished it. Every chapter’s episode is still there to watch.
Suggest a book
Got one the class should read? Pass Jim a note. If we can find it in the library records, it goes up right away under Book Suggestions so the class can vote on it. Jim adds the favorites to his Wishlist, and it goes on the shelf once he gets a copy.