Matthew’s Comments (group member since Mar 08, 2015)

Matthew’s comments from the Reading List Completists group.

It was very, very close - but our November winner was Love in the Time of Cholera!

Dune will be back for our next second chance poll!

Agreed - so far, nothing is blowing me away about this book.

"Waste no time, I implore you, in pursuing any other course, but apply yourself constantly to reading! No sacrifice of time or pleasure can ever be too great!"

Reminder - voting is over on Sunday and this will be a showdown between Dune and Love in the Time of Cholera - so, if you previously voted for something else and want to switch your vote to the one of those two you would prefer to read, please feel free to do so. All other titles are officially out of the running after the "primaries"! ;)

A screenshot from an episode of the Simpsons - check out the left side of the cast . . .

I am getting close!

With five days left to vote - I am officially calling this poll a showdown between Dune and Love in the Time of Cholera. Feel free to switch your vote to one of those two if you voted for another title.

Justin wrote: "I feel like Goodnight Moon is a little overrated. I think I've memorized The Cat in the Hat though."

"Goodnight mush" is a classic line! Very quotable!

TheLongWait wrote: "Gah! Stupid new phone"

We can just delete all those - however, a weird occurrence like this is fitting for this particular book.

Please vote of our November reading selection from the Amazon 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime list:

Amazon 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime Poll

Looks like I have read about 22 of these so far . . . with kids, I have been reading Goodnight Moon at least weekly - if not more.

Just found this list - and I will be creating our November Poll for this:

Amazon - 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime

Oh, and the footnotes have really settled down (for now at least!)

Sorry to hear that! I will wait patiently - hopefully it isn't a "LongWait" ;)

Kirstin wrote: "At first I thought the book might be too dry for me but now I'm really enjoying it. That's greatly relieving when dealing with a thousand page book! :) "

You should have gotten the hard cover instead - less than 800 pages! ;)

I haven't seen discussion on this one in a few days - I know that a few of you out there have been reading and I am curious to know your thoughts on this weird tale! (This means you, TheLongWait! ;))

What I am enjoying so far since I am trying to do a chapter a day is that each chapter really does feel like a short story of its own. I am sure that some of the specifics will have long term ramifications throughout the book, but each chapter really feels like it has the beginning, middle, and end of its own story.

It really felt this way in the chapter about the ships and in the chapter where we meet the Strange's for the first time.

Discuss Part III - John Uskglass - This may contain spoilers so proceed with caution!

Discuss Part II - Jonathan Strange - This may contain spoilers so proceed with caution!