I joined a new book club which I am enjoying. I have an issue though. One member is a speed reader. After every book is announced she will have it finished that evening. (We have 2 weeks to read it!) I recieved my book today and got a message in the chat! “Curious to see what everyone thinks of the ending? I hated it” every time!!! It makes me mad - I’m in the club to try and make friends and I have a problem with being too direct- so I’m hoping another group member will address it. Is this normal? She’s not spoiling it- but starting a book & knowing that the ending “has a twist” or “isn’t great” is so annoying.
I’m also a very fast reader. I’ll have usually finished my local book club books (we pick two; read one, read both, read neither, our choice). But I wait until book club to talk about it, when everyone else is also talking about it. That’s what the book club meeting is for. Everybody in the group knows I’m a super fast reader, I’ve been in this group for years and we all acknowledge we read at different speeds (some are self-proclaimed slow readers).
It sounds like it should just be made that the group chat isn’t for that kind of thing, and it’s book club policy to discuss the books with the group at the meetings. If any individuals want to get together on their own and talk before, cool, but not in the group chat.
Maybe she doesn’t realize what she’s doing, maybe she does. But clearly she’ll keep doing it until someone says “hey let’s not talk about it until the meeting so we all have a chance to get it and read it.”