Bud the Teacher

    A colleague/mentor of mine is looking to do some work with an online book club.  By book club, she’s thinking about a place to discuss and converse on a shared reading experience.  I’m glad that she is, because her thinking has gotten me thinking a bit about ways to orchestrate such work.  I think a blog is a pretty good tool for use as an online book club.  According to some, "blogs are cumbersome for discussion", but I think that a book club via a blog could be handy. 
    Of course, I’d need a good chat room application for real-time conversations, but something like this might work.
    How would you host a book club online?  Participating in any?  What do they look like?