In 2012 I created a forum called The Mookse and the Gripes Forum. It didn’t have much of an identity at the time, but just a week or two after I started it The Man Booker Prize website took down what had been a very active forum for discussing that prize. I loved to go there — went there for years before starting this site — and so I made the new Mookse and Gripes forum a kind of new home for those discussions. It has featured discussions on several book prizes since.
But such forums are not the kind of snazzy destinations they used to be, though spammers still come by droves. Because of those two very things, the forum has felt a bit like a walled community, and though I have loved the members’ conversations there I’ve been worried that we’re missing out on engaging with other interested folks.
8 membersForum transplant from mookseandgripes.myfreeforum.org.
Books we’ve read
I’ve decided to move that forum over to GoodReads, where we can not only continue to have the same types of discussions, in the same general type of open format, but we have a greater ability to reach out and start new conversations. I’d like to invite any interested to check out the new page and join in!
Right now, I’ve put up a discussion folder with individual threads for all of the books on The Man Booker International Prize. Soon I will be putting up another for The Best Translated Book Award. And it won’t be long before July comes around again and we can get to discussing the Man Booker Prize longlist.
Beyond discussions of book prizes, which is what the original forum became, I’m happy to see what else is of interest. I hope to see you there!
Just joined this week