Discussion: Active groups/Communities • BookLikes

#1 by: Non Fiction Books with Great Covers date: 7 years ago discussions stats

Hello All,

I've just joined today and am trying to find active groups discussions on here. Most of the groups/discussions seem to be very old and dead.

Maybe I just haven't found it yet but it would be great if active groups or blogs were somehow listed in the dashboard.

Any tips? Or would people maybe like to promote their grops or Blogs below?

I'm looking for Non fiction Blogs and/or Sci-Fi

Thank you

#2 by: Themis-Athena's Garden of Books date: 7 years ago discussions stats

Hello and welcome!

The most active nonfiction group hereabouts is The Flat Book Society, which is a group for bimonthly group reads of science and popular science. We're currently reading Kathryn Harkup's A Is For Arsenic; the next book (as from July 1) will be Thomas McNamee's The Inner Life of Cats.

#3 by: Murder by Death date: 7 years ago discussions stats

Hi there - welcome to BookLikes!

Groups are a funny thing here; we have them, we like them, but oddly enough, we rarely use them. That doesn't mean we're not an active community though; we just somehow end up having all our conversations in the comments of posts. It doesn't make any sense on the face of it, but it works! If you find the right group of people to follow, there will be no shortage of conversations.

(For finding people with similar interests, you can check out the Explore page and filter it by genre - I know there are a LOT of sci-fi fans here, but of course, I'm drawing a blank on actually naming them.)

#5 by: Themis-Athena's Garden of Books date: 7 years ago discussions stats

Reply to post #4 (show post):

Well, there are a couple of mystery and gothic-lit-related groups (Detection Cub and Mansions, Moonlight, and Menace, respectively), but as MbD said, most of the discussion hereabouts doesn't occur in discussion groups anyway -- not even the active ones -- but in the comments section under individual members' blogo posts.

So the key definitely is to find members who share your interests, follow them, and then just jump in and join the discussion either on their own blog posts on on other people's blog posts where they comment.