More on schedule and pacing

As of yesterday, I hadn't started our next selection, and I was hoping to have it done by about September 15, when we're planning to start discussing it (as I understand our calendar). So I checked out a copy of Sense & Sensibility from the WSU library, noted that it has 335 pages and I had 11 days to read it in, so I gave myself the goal of reading about 30 pages a day. I'm just letting y'all know this in case you want to try a similar idea yourself.

Also, as I understand it, we're planning to do about one book per month, and to announce the selections early so people can procure the book and get a head start if necessary. With that in mind, I'll plan to name my selection around September 15, at the same time that we start discussing Sense and Sensibility. Then you'll have a month to procure it and read it, while we discuss Sense and Sensibility. We usually don't spend a whole month discussing (unless we're really dragging it out without a lot of comments), so even if you don't like to overlap books, it should work. We can discuss a book in the second half of the month and you can read a book in the first half. If you prefer to read slower and don't mind discussing one book while reading another, then you'll have a whole month to read each one. (We may have to change this schedule if it turns out to be too quick. Or we could change it temporarily if someone picks an especially long book.)

Let me know whether this sounds okay. Otherwise, I'll just plan to name my pick around September 15 and begin the discussion around October 15.