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Hot take: our club almost picked a book that was 12 pages longer than we thought and it flipped the vote
We were down to two finalists for May and someone finally checked the page counts instead of guessing. Turned out the "short one" was 412 pages and the "long one" was 400, so the whole argument we had for 20 minutes was backwards and the quiet people won. Does your club ever check real page counts before voting or do you just go off vibes like we did?
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wood.faith19d ago
Oh man, we had almost the exact same thing happen last year! Someone in our club started keeping a little shared doc with the real page count for every book we were thinking about, and it honestly saved us so many dumb fights. The funny thing is the page count isn't even the whole story, since a 400 page book with tiny print can feel way longer than a 450 page one with big text. What worked for us was checking both the page count and the Kindle length before we voted, but even then we still go off vibes half the time. Your thing about the quiet people winning is so real though, because the loudest folks in the room are usually the ones who didn't look anything up. Anyway, your mileage may vary, but that doc thing took us like ten minutes to set up and it's been weirdly helpful.
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