If someone were to make a spiffy looking banner advertising this forum I would definitely put it in my signature. I would make one myself, but I only have MS Paint.

Moving it to the Lounges category will definitely help.

In terms of community building, I always find that a GD helps build a core community of posters, but the nature of this forum is such that people will just talk about the books they love really.

Maybe some sort of Book of the Month feature. I think a new header would be cool as well, while I like the current header I think it could be expanded, maybe more classic titles on it or something.

Book Club sounds like a great idea, personally wouldn't be able to participate until the summer though unless y'all would want to read some of my university novels like Frankenstein

I already read Frankenstein last semester! And I'm in the same boat as IG, I have hundreds of pages of reading per week and wouldn't have the time to read full novels until summer. I could do short stories or poetry for now though.

Last time that we tried a book club it fell through after a few books.
That being said, I would love to see it get off the ground again.

Tell me which book, but some of you lazy bums will have to show up. I read the Clockwork Orange a while back for one of these book clubs and that died out. *hisses*

quote Mishtram

Tell me which book, but some of you lazy bums will have to show up. I read the Clockwork Orange a while back for one of these book clubs and that died out. *hisses*

So did I mish. So did I.

As nice as short stories and poems are, I don't think we could keep up a consistent group of people if we kept on changing literary materials every week.

Well, I suppose we could do Frankenstein, as IG and I would already have it covered.

As for short stories, I've been wanting to read The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol. The Nose and The Diary of a Madman also by Gogol are both very good. I also think any short story by Kafka would work well.