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

Hawaii (937p) - 1
Rosemary's Baby (308p) - 1
Night (115p) - 3
⭐ Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (176p) - 7
⭐ Brideshead Revisited (351p) - 7
On the Road (307p) - 6
⭐ Cannery Row (181p) - 10
The Metamorphosis (201p) - 4
The Left Hand of Darkness (304p) - 3
A Moveable Feast (192p) - 1
Man’s Search for Meaning (165p) - 5
Candide (129p) - 6
⭐ The Importance of Being Earnest (76p) - 9
The Pilgrim's Progress (324p) - 1

Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for April 2024 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 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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I Am a Cat (480p) - 4
⭐ Rebecca (449p) - 10
The Color Purple (304p) - 5
Brave New World (268p) - 5
The Tattooist of Auschwitz (272p) - 5
⭐ The Diary of a Young Girl (283p) - 6
⭐ The Underground Railroad (306p) - 7
⭐ Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (258p) - 6
The Vanishing Half (343p) - 2
The Nightingale (440p) - 3
The Handmaid’s Tale (314p) - 3
Peter Pan (176p) - 3

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

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
The Sun Also Rises

Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for April 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 February 16.

I second Game of Thrones.

Jessica wrote: "I nominate The Lightning Theif. And also second Gone Girl and Peter Pan"

The Lightning Thief has already been nominated (msg.43), so I will count this as a second.

I second Madame Bovary.

Derek wrote: "I nominate A Gentleman in Moscow"

Derek, this book has been read twice already by this group, so could be nominated instead in the catch-up topic. Is there another book you would like to suggest?

Zeljka wrote: "I second The Master and Margarita"

Zeljka, you have already seconded this book in message 12.

Stephen King writes about Derry quite often. It was first mentioned in his book IT, and then many times over throughout his career. I found it fun that he mentions the mysterious deaths that had happened in Derry. Only a die-hard SK fan would get that.

Laura H L wrote: "Renata wrote: "Laura H L wrote: "Will the read-along challenge (involving BOTM picks) be updated for 2024?

Thanks!"

Laura, thanks for pointing out this omission. The 2024 challenge is now available for sign-up.

Laura H L wrote: "Will the read-along challenge (involving BOTM picks) be updated for 2024?

Thanks!"

Yes, we have a new READ-A-LONG starting in March. You can nominate books here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Rebecca is book-hooked wrote: "Renata wrote: "Oops, Les Miserables was read in 2020, so can only be nominated in the Catch-Up topic. Is there another book ..."

No, most of the long books I would like to nominate have been read ..."
Thank you for your suggestion, Rebecca. The moderator team discussed the idea and decided that with only 8 long-reads to-date, it's early to start re-reading them. But if you want a longer-duration read, there's the Buddy Read that you could organize. Here's the link: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/group...

I second The Jungle Book

I second The Nightingale

I second Pillars of the Earth

Rebecca is book-hooked wrote: "I nominate Les Miserables, 1,376 pages"

Oops, Les Miserables was read in 2020, so can only be nominated in the Catch-Up topic. Is there another book you would like to suggest instead?

I second The Things They Carried

I second The Wager