I needed to find my next commute-read book, so on Wednesday night, I closed my eyes and reached into my pile of unread books and pulled out Neil Gaiman's AMERICAN GODS. I started into it yesterday morning and, thus far, I'm very intrigued by it and enjoying it a lot.
Strangely enough, I discovered yesterday that a writer for Wired magazine,
Jeff Howe, has instituted a sort of bookclub kind of thing through Twitter and that the book to be read is none other than AMERICAN GODS. Calling it "1 Book, 1 Twitter" (or #1b1t in Twitter-speak), this is a a take-off on the "One Book, One City" programs that happened in Seattle, Chicago and other cities during the past 10 years (and been reported here from time to time.)
It will be interesting having this wide of a shared experience with this many people reading the same book. But I also think it was a wonderful bit of some kind of global consciousness that guided my hand in selecting that book from my library without having any knowledge that #1b1t was going on.