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Welcome, Julia!
Genre Group Read #1 (Mystery: August 2015) - The Spy Who Came In From the Cold, by John le Carré
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Jul 25, 2015 09:40AM
Renee wrote: "Mystery is a good genre to have split reads. It's very popular."Yes! I thought that as I was about to set up a tie breaker poll, and I was like... nah, mysteries are addictive, we can read more than one. Perfect timing for this genre!
Jul 25, 2015 09:17AM
Our World Literature Group Read for August is A Passage to India by E.M. Forster!Reading and discussion begin on August 1. Please keep spoilers behind spoiler tags, as members will be reading and discussing at their own pace.
Jul 25, 2015 09:15AM
We had a tie for our Genre Group Read for August, but I'm on vacation, so I can't be bothered to set up a tie breaker. So this month we have 2 Genre Group Reads!Genre Group Read #2 for August is I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes.
Reading and discussion begin on August 1. Please keep spoilers behind spoiler tags, as members will be reading and discussing at their own pace.
Genre Group Read #1 (Mystery: August 2015) - The Spy Who Came In From the Cold, by John le Carré
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Jul 25, 2015 09:14AM
We had a tie for our Genre Group Read for August, but I'm on vacation, so I can't be bothered to set up a tie breaker. So this month we have 2 Genre Group Reads!Genre Group Read #1 for August is The Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le Carré.
Reading and discussion begin on August 1. Please keep spoilers behind spoiler tags, as members will be reading and discussing at their own pace.
Jul 25, 2015 09:10AM
Our Classic Group Read for August is The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton!Reading and discussion begin on August 1. Please keep spoilers behind spoiler tags, as members will be reading and discussing at their own pace.
Our YA Group Read for August is Mosquitoland by David Arnold!Reading and discussion begin on August 1. Please keep spoilers behind spoiler tags, as members will be reading and discussing at their own pace.
Jul 25, 2015 08:55AM
The Nonfiction Group Read for August is Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania, by Erik Larson! I'm currently reading this book, and it is awesome. :)Reading and discussion begin on August 1. Please keep spoilers behind spoiler tags, as members will be reading and discussing at their own pace.
Nice work, you over-achievers! :)
Welcome, Jenny!
Welcome, Britta and all our new members! :)
I'm not enjoying the characters as much as I expected to - Amelia and Emerson are one extreme while Evelyn and Walter are another, and I generally prefer characters that are in the middle somewhere, personality-wise - but the archaeology stuff is cool. I'm just over halfway through Crocodile on the Sandbank.
I've always thought the "romance" label being slapped on Jane Eyre is kind of unfair. The book is about Jane's whole life and the decisions she makes to stay true to herself, not just about her love life. I think painting it as a romance novel has left a lot of readers confused and inclined to quit once they realize the romantic relationship doesn't even start until deep into the book.But in those days writers didn't have genres to worry about being boxed into. Jane Eyre was simply a novel, with a healthy dose of gothic intrigue and moral example-setting.
This thread always makes me drool a little bit... I AM SO JEALOUS.I can read children's books (and maybe lighter adult books) in French and Spanish if I have really good dictionaries handy, but it's frustratingly slow. I'd really hoped to be more fluent by now, but I can never devote the time to it that I'd like to.
I've attempted Russian and Latin, but I've had to set those aside for now. One of these days! I will conquer!! *shakes fist*
Jun 27, 2015 10:27AM
The Genre Group Read for July is Death Note, Volume 1 by Tsugumi Ohba!Reading and discussion begin on July 1. Please keep spoilers behind spoiler tags.
World Literature Group Read (North Africa: July 2015) - The English Patient, by Michael Ondaatje
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Jun 27, 2015 10:25AM
The World Literature Group Read for July is The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje!Reading and discussion begin on July 1. Please keep spoilers behind spoiler tags.
Jun 27, 2015 10:24AM
The Nonfiction Group Read for July is Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat: Why It's So Hard to Think Straight About Animals by Hal Herzog!Reading and discussion begin on July 1. Please keep spoilers behind spoiler tags.
The Classic Group Read for July is Watership Down by Richard Adams!Reading and discussion begin on July 1. Please keep spoilers behind spoiler tags.
Jun 27, 2015 10:21AM
The YA Group Read for July is The Geography of You and Me by Jennifer E. Smith!Reading and discussion begin on July 1. Please keep spoilers behind spoiler tags.
