"Despite the fact (because of the fact?) I have my own ideas about what I ought to read/am going to read" - so do I (both scheduled and not); 1 chapter/month means even busier people should be able to follow this without being prevented from other reading! And yeah, I'm in this most of all for the other folks.

I intend items 7 and 10 to be "bizarro" as things are. Regarding a full-bizarro book club, never g... I mean, it was something I considered trying to put together before - but for now I'll say "let's do the simpler task first, and this list is an excellent Schelling point for the place the people were invited from"; should this be seen to actually work, we can, possibly should, consider more complex ideas! (The one you ran was in person, it seems?)