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.

This is the SPOILER-FREE thread for the April 2023 Modern selection. This month we will be reading the book Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner, nominated by Rachel.

Here you can comment, spoiler-free, on any aspects of the book, either before, during, or after reading it.

This is the SPOILER-FREE thread for the April 2023 Classics selection. This month we will be reading the book Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, nominated by Adrienne.

Here you can comment, spoiler-free, on any aspects of the book, either before, during, or after reading it.

This begins our 2nd group reading of this book, nominated by Kimberly. Will you be joining in or sitting this one out?

Here you can comment, spoiler-free, on any aspects of the book, either before, during, or after reading it.

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⭐ Poll Candidate

The Botany of Desire (304p) - 3
The Spanish Love Deception (487p) - 2
Sarah's Key (294p) - 4
Tuesdays with Morrie (210p) - 5
⭐ Into Thin Air (368p) - 7
Killers of the Flower Moon (316p) - 6
⭐ The Giver of Stars (390p) - 7
⭐ The Shadow of the Wind (487p) - 8
The Shack (294p) - 1
Shuggie Bain (430p) - 5
⭐ The Time Traveller's Wife (518p) - 8
Bridget Jones's Diary (271p) - 2
The Giver (208p) - 2

Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for May 2023 in the MODERN CLASSIC/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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⭐ Poll Candidate

⭐ The Age of Innocence (293p) - 7
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (282p) - 3
⭐ The Call of the Wild (172p) - 5
A Town Like Alice (359p) - 4
The Woman in White (672p) - 4
⭐ Things Fall Apart (209p) - 6
⭐ Death of a Salesman (117p) - 9
My Cousin Rachel (352p) - 4
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (154p) - 3

Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for May 2023 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 March 16.

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⭐ Poll Candidate

⭐ Ready Player One (374p) - 8
Little Women (449p) - 4
⭐ The Sun Also Rises (189p) - 6
Outlander (627p) - 1
The Song of Achilles (378p) - 4
Brave New World (268p) - 3
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (389p) - 5
Giovanni's Room (159p) - 2
⭐ The Underground Railroad (306p) - 7
⭐ The Thirteenth Tale (406p) - 6
The Martian (384p) - 4

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

The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Wuthering Heights
Murder on the Orient Express
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
The Bell Jar
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
A Gentleman in Moscow
A Clockwork Orange
The Silent Patient
The Book Thief
Lord of the Flies

Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for May 2023 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 featured 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.

Chase wrote: "I second Ready Player One"

Nominations closed Feb.16th, but polls are open for the final vote here: https://www.goodreads.com/poll/list/1...

Ellie wrote: "I nominate Where the Crawdads Sing, 384 pages. I second The Love Hypothesis, Crying in H Mart, and Conversations with Friends."

Ellie and Quinty: Crawdads was already read in 2019 by this group, but you could nominate it in the Catch-Up Bookshelf topic. But maybe next month, because nominations are ending today.

It's always entertaining to read Sci-Fi written in the 50s, revealing an author's imagined life on earth today. I believe we are close to having robots in our homes soon. Already, artificial intelligence is able to produce art and humour. It won't be long before we will interact with robots as in Asimov's stories. How exciting and terrifying too!

I second Tess, Howard's End, and The Trial.

Adrienne wrote: "Last month 335 people voted for Tomorrow And Tomorrow And Tommorrow. 335 voices has the potential for a very lively conversation.
If a member can't get their hands on the book of t..."

Yes, our nomination process is underwhelming. We have a membership of over 23K people, but only 40 participate in nominations and just 700 cast a vote in the polls. Participation apathy or what?

Keep in mind, the Bookshelf Catch-Up category is another opportunity to collectively read a book that wasn't readily available in its first go-round.

There are many other GR groups reading trendy bestsellers. Should we be one of them?

Fun Fact - Out of 82 books in our Modern bookshelf, only 6 were read within a year of publication.

Hello Readers!
There has been some recent discussion by members and moderators, on the idea of further limiting MODERN book nominations by publication date. Our last 2 BOTM choices were published very recently, and are immensely popular on social media sites. This makes them very difficult to acquire though libraries, where long hold queues exist.

Our group was formed to read catch-up books, the ones that everyone else has already read. Would you support a further restriction on Modern book nominations to allow only books published over 1 year ago? Over 2 years ago? Over 10 years?

We, the moderators, are very interested in hearing your ideas. Thank you!

Seems like some confusion here. Ellie must pick from Cheryl's "on-deck" shelf. Ellie must also update her profile from the current private setting. Next pick will then be for Ellie, by a random member, not Cheryl.