Our book club almost broke up over a 12 page novella, and one dumb rule fixed it

Daniel Nelson · 2026-10-03T20:05:02.996396+00:00

Back in September our group of nine in Columbus nearly fell apart because two people kept filibustering every meeting about a 700 page fantasy series nobody else finished, so three members just stopped showing up. I got fed up and tried something simple. Each person gets 5 minutes to talk, no cutting in, and you can only argue about the text itself, not the author's tweets or the movie. We ran it on a short novella first to test it, and the meeting lasted 70 minutes instead of our usual three hours. Has anyone else tried a hard time limit like this, or did it backfire on your group eventually?

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