YAY OR NAY WEDNESDAY

Just yesterday I wrote about a new book with 'club' in the title, and here at Trashionista we've reviewed (brace yourselves!):

The Tuesday Erotica Club, The Yorkshire Pudding Club, The Jane Austen Book Club, The Friday Night Knitting Club, Man of the Month Club, The Dirty Girls' Social Club, The Second Wives' Club and The Adultery Club.

There's also The Sunday Night Book Club, The Naked Drinking Club and - to be a bit different - The Book Group.

So is it time to call time on the word 'club' and ask authors and publishers to think of different titles... (there have to be other ways to bring disparate characters together) or don't you care as long as the story is good?

'Club' in the title - is it a Yay or a Nay... and WHY?

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Bridgey

Diane: Ta for that.

Shanna Swendson

It depends on the story to me. It&#39s neither a draw nor a turn-off, though I do think the "club" thing is what the "confessions" thing was a few years ago. Remember when almost every book was "Confessions of ..." something?

However, I am working on something that does use the club concept, only, as usual, I&#39m kind of spoofing it, and it&#39s not exactly a Ya-Ya/Red Hat kind of group ...

DIANE SHIPLEY

Bridget, feel free to write a post for us about this, we&#39d love that!

(we can pay you in chocolate... ;) )

Bridgey

Nay.

Going off on a tangent here, it&#39s reminding me of &#39The Chocolate Lovers&#39 Club&#39 and the really annoying trend of chick lit getting really obsessed with starting and jumping on demographic caricatures (shopaholics, *insert female relation*-zillas to name a few). It&#39s putting you in mind of these annoying workmates who go on about their WeightWatchers points and see chocolate as &#39oooh, naughty!&#39 during your break. Why are they encouraging this sort of stereotype perpetrating? Hate hate haaaate. Can this be a &#39Yay or Nay&#39?

JenniferDawn

Nay, just because it&#39s so uninventive. I&#39m a sucker for those titles that make you turn and look again in the bookstores. "Club" doesn&#39t do it for me. If the story&#39s good though, it really doesn&#39t matter, but it&#39s not something I&#39d pick up randomly from a bookstore because of its inventiveness.

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