You're alreqdy a territory all star! Good point re SN. Perhaps these issues will dissipate as the site grows. 

siggy47

Book clubs in general (real life or other online ones) are hard to maintain momentum for a bunch of reasons (attention, timing, etc). I think the fact that both SN and 

BooksAndArticles

 are still growing and developing doesn't help (we don't have the network effect of a 10000-member subreddit, for example).

Books And Articles Newsletter, Issue 9

Two in the top 5! Woohoo!

Book clubs in general (real life or other online ones) are hard to maintain momentum for a bunch of reasons (attention, timing, etc). I think the fact that both SN and ~BooksAndArticles are still growing and developing doesn't help (we don't have the network effect of a 10000-member subreddit, for example). 