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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⭐ News of the World (209p) - 6
Blood Orange (378p)
Beach Read (400p) - 5
The Horse Whisperer (451p) - 2
⭐ The House of the Spirits (448p) - 7
Parable of the Sower (345p) - 3
Middlesex (529p) - 5
⭐ The Housemaid (338p) - 8
Less Than Zero (208p) - 2
Cloud Atlas (509p) - 4
⭐ Before the Coffee Gets Cold (272p) - 8
Angle of Repose (569p)
The Secret Life of Bees (302p) - 1
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store (380p)

Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for May 2024 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 March 16.

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Murder on the Orient Express (265p) - 2
⭐ A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (496p) - 7
The Diary of a Young Girl (283p) - 3
⭐ A Brief History of Time (226p) - 4
The Nickel Boys (213p) - 2
⭐ Jane Eyre (532p) - 4
⭐ The Handmaid’s Tale (314p) - 5
⭐ The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (206p) - 4
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (448p) - 3
⭐ Pachinko (496p) - 7
The Catcher in the Rye (277p) - 3
The Martian (384p) - 3
Lord of the Flies (182p)

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

Rebecca
Little Women
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
The House in the Cerulean Sea
The Song of Achilles
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Haunting of Hill House
Emma
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Slaughterhouse-Five
A Man Called Ove

Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for May 2024 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 March 16.

Sarah wrote: "A dumb question maybe but here it is: is the PIFM game dead? I have signed up on Jan 24 and today is Feb 15 and no one has joined the game yet, to pick a book for me. Did I kill the game somehow???..."

Hi Sarah: No, you didn`t kill the game, lol. The relay is still running, but lately, not too quickly. Hopefully someone will respond soon. Congrats on finishing your Bingo card!

I second Brideshead Revisited.

I second Diary of a Young Girl.

I nominate The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, 314 pages.

I second Brave New World.

I nominate We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker, 384 pages

I second Contact and The Namesake.

Débora wrote: "I nominate The Girl in the Train, 336 pages, published 2015.
And I second City of Bones and The Giver"

Debora, did you mean The Girl on the Train? Are there two different books by this author?

Kimberly wrote: "Andi wrote: "I nominate I Am a Cat by Natsume Sōseki, 480 pages, last read 2015"

Did this group even exist in 2015?"

FYI: The group was formed in 2016 and this book was read in 2018.

I nominate Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl, 176 pages.

I second Night.

spoko wrote: "I nominate The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (306 p., pub. 2016)."

spoko, this book was read in 2020 by the group, but you can nominate it in the Catch-Up topic.

This begins a 4th group discussion of our Catch-Up book selection, nominated by Wobbley.
Here you can comment, without spoilers, on any aspects of the book, either before, during, or after reading it.

This begins a group discussion of our Modern book selection, The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien, nominated by Lea.
Here you can comment, without spoilers, on any aspects of the book, either before, during, or after reading it.

This begins a group discussion of our Classics book selection, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, nominated by Rachel.
Here you can comment, without spoilers, on any aspects of the book, either before, during, or after reading it.

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⭐ Contact (375p) - 10
Gardens of the Moon (666p) - 1
⭐ The Giver (208p) - 8
⭐ Klara and the Sun (303p) - 9
The Marriage Plot (406p) - 4
City of Bones (485p) - 5
⭐ The Namesake (291p) - 8
The Girl on the Train (336p) - 4
Doomsday Book (578p) - 1
We Begin at the End (384p) - 2
The Overstory (502p) - 2
The Immortalists (346p) - 2
The God of Small Things 321p) - 2
The Secret Life of Bees (302p) - 1

Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for April 2024 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.