Affordances/Barriers - and - Plan of Action

There are a number of affordances and barriers for this activity. What enhanced my engagement was being able to visit other members houses, and having friends visit my house in order to complete the activity. The environment of these places were very significant in determining the success of the activity - this being a chat and a cuppa' usually related to books.

Affordances of the environment were: comfortable seating, good lighting, having a cup of tea, relaxed atmosphere, members of the book club being non-judgmental of other members contributions.
Barriers: Sometimes members would have quite strong opinions about a character or a particular part of a book, this was a difficulty as it would impact on the willingness of other members to contribute. Other barriers were environmental factors such as cold weather, cold flats, not enough seating (which wasn't usually a problem). Barriers such as challenging behaviours by members were overcome by the club discussing the questions by going around in a group so regardless, group members had opportunity to 'have their say' and contribute to the conversation. Lack of chairs was usually remedied and as members were relatively familiar with each other it was a relaxed and informal environment.

Plan of Action:
The next book that is to be read and discussed in bookclub is The Life of Pi. I have never read this book myself but have heard good things about it.
I am motivated to read this for bookclub because there is a film coming out soon in November and other members of the group have not read it themselves.