Renata’s Comments (group member since Jul 12, 2019)

Renata’s comments from the EVERYONE Has Read This but Me - The Catch-Up Book Club group.

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♥️Poll Candidate

♥️Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (544p) - 6
♥️The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (291p) - 7
The Housemaid (329p) - 3
The Night She Disappeared (416p)
James (303p) - 5
♥️The Road (241p) - 6
Less Than Zero (208p) - 1
♥️Malibu Rising (369p) - 7
Hatchet (208p) - 2
♥️Sea of Tranquility (259p) - 7
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (294p) - 3
The Bookseller of Kabul (256p) - 1
Fourth Wing (517p) - 5
In Memoriam (382p) - 1
Stay with Me (260p)

Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for April 2025 in the MODERN/POPULAR category. Top 4 will be selected for the poll.

Books that qualify for this category:

1. Must have a publication date 1970 or after. For older books, please make your suggestion on the Classics thread.

2. Have not been previously ready by this group. Previously read books can be nominated in the Bookshelf Catch-Up thread. See the group's Bookshelf for previously read books.

3. Be reasonably well-read, with at least 50,000 ratings, to fit the "Everyone Has Read This but Me" claim.

Only one nomination is allowed per person, per category. If you nominate more than one book only your first nomination will be added toward the tracking post. Please continue to second as many nominations that interest you!

Page numbers are now required for every nomination. To find out how many pages a book has; go to the book's page on Goodreads. Look under the section titled "GET A COPY" and above the book's ISBN number.

Nominations end midnight PST February 16.

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♥️Poll Candidate

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (282p) - 3
♥️A Farewell to Arms (293p) - 6
♥️The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (327p) - 8
♥️The Andromeda Strain (327p) - 7
♥️A Passage to India (376p) - 6
I Am Legend (162p) - 1
The Secret Adversary (266p) - 2
A Little Princess (242p) - 5
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (510p) - 4
Notes from Underground (136p) - 2

Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for April 2025 in the CLASSICS category. Top 4 will be selected for the poll.

Books that qualify for this category:

1. Must have a publication date 1969 or before. For newer books, please make your suggestion on the Modern Classic/Popular Reads thread.

2. Have not been previously ready by this group. Previously read books can be nominated in the Bookshelf Catchup thread. See the group's Bookshelf for previously read books.

3. Be reasonably well-read, with at least 50,000 ratings, to fit the "Everyone Has Read This but Me" claim.

Only one nomination is allowed per person, per category. If you nominate more than one book only your first nomination will be added toward the tracking post. Please continue to second as many nominations that interest you!

Page numbers are required for every nomination. To find out how many pages a book has; go to the book's page on Goodreads. look under the section titled "GET A COPY" and above the book's ISBN number.

Nominations end midnight PST February 16.

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♥️The Princess Bride (429p) - 10
The Hobbit (366p) - 2
Great Expectations (544p) - 2
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (223p) - 4
♥️The House in the Cerulean Sea (394p) - 7
Lord of the Flies (182p) - 3
♥️The Picture of Dorian Gray (253p) - 7
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (112p) - 5
♥️The Vanishing Half (343p) - 6
Small Great Things (480p) - 2
The Thirteenth Tale (406p) - 3
Ready Player One (480p) - 5

These books have been re-read within the last 12 months and are ineligible to be nominated:

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Pride and Prejudice
A Christmas Carol
The Midnight Library
Jane Eyre
Pachinko
Never Let Me Go
The Thursday Murder Club
The Secret Garden
The Handmaid's Tale

Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for April 2025 in the BOOKSHELF CATCH-UP category. Top 4 will be selected for the poll.

For this category, you can nominate any book that the group has previously read. For a list of books that the group has previously read and discussed, please see the Bookshelf HERE.

Books selected as a group reread within the last twelve months are not eligible. See Message 2 below.

Only one nomination is allowed per person, per category. If you nominate more than one book only your first nomination will be added toward the tracking post. Please continue to second as many nominations that interest you!

Page numbers are now required for every nomination. To find out how many pages a book has; go to the book's page on Goodreads. look under the section titled "GET A COPY" and above the book's ISBN number.

Nominations end Midnight PST February 16

Agnė wrote: "I second Cat's Cradle"

Sorry, nominations ended midnight PST January 16.

Agnė wrote: "i second The Fellowship of the Ring and Beloved"

Sorry, nominations ended midnight PST January 16.

Agnė wrote: "I second: The Remains of the Day and White Fragility"

Sorry, nominations ended midnight PST January 16.

Nike wrote: "I nominate The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien 432 pages and I second The Midnight Library"

Nike, The Midnight Library was read recently and appears in the exclusion list.

I'm reading this YA fantasy with some trepidation, on the lookout for teeny-bopper love problems. I'm half-way done and so far, so good.

I second The Jungle Book.

I second Thorns & Roses.

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We challenge you to become our 2025 Nominations Champion!

It's easy to play. Each month, simply nominate a book in any or all of our BOTM Suggestions Topics. You will receive 1 "Emoji" if your book becomes a poll candidate. You will receive an additional 2 "Emoji's" if your book wins the poll and becomes our BOTM. That's a potential of up to 9 "Emoji's" per month!

Ongoing results will be tabulated HERE. The member with the most "Emoji's" at year-end will become our Nominations Champion for the year. Good luck to all!

Giving it another try this year! Will be reading mostly books off-the-shelf to help reduce my ever-growing TBR's.
Progress: 20/25

👍1. Author’s most recent book - The Correspondent
👍 2. Award winner - Weyward
👍 3. Based on a true story - The Frozen River
4. Book connected to where you live - The Escarpment
👍5. Book that makes you laugh - Napalm & Silly Putty
👍 6. Book with a subtitle - Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted
👍 7. Color in the title - James and the Giant Peach
👍8. First in a series - Lights Out
👍9. From an author new to you - The Mountain Story
10. From the decade of your birth - The Day of the Triffids
👍11. Historical fiction - I Must Betray You
👍12. Less than 200 pages - The Awakening
👍13. Memoir/biography - The Year of Magical Thinking
14. More than 100 years old - Emma
👍15. More than 400 pages - The Fourth Monkey
16. Numeral or punctuation in title - 28 Summers
👍17. On your TBR for at least 1 year - Room
👍18. Published this year - The Crash
19. Re-read - Carrie
👍20. Read in a week or less - The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
👍21. Set in a country you haven’t visited - The Coast Road
👍22. Translated from another language - An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good
👍23. Two-word title - Dark Witch
👍24. YA novel - Shadow and Bone
👍25. EHRTBM book of the month - The Road

Theresa wrote: "Slightly off-topic - don't we need a Read-a-Long nomination thread as well, or are we not doing that anymore?"

We've decided to drop it due to low member involvement.

I second The Light Between Oceans