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.
Showing 801-820 of 1,518
Thanks to everyone who made these great suggestions this month. This topic is now closed, but you can cast your vote in our polls here: https://www.goodreads.com/poll/list/1...
I second Rules of Civility.
Author herself mentions that assuming heavy symbolism, you could say "the 500" is simply the power to contemplate, and the "lock on a door" is the power to think for oneself. I can get behind that. Are women further ahead now than in 1928? Well, JK Rowling wrote Harry Potter while sitting in a coffee shop. No income and no room of her own. Maybe not.
FYI: 500 pounds in 1929 is worth about 34,000 pounds today, a pretty good income.
I'll be chiming in on this one too. I expect the prose to be beautiful, as Virginia Woolf is known for her eloquence. She said that "books are the mirrors of the soul". Quite right.
I second The Andromeda Strain.
Andi wrote: "I nominate The Shining by Stephen King, 1977, 659 pages."Andi, The Shining was read by this group in 2017, so would be best nominated in the Catch-up topic. Is there another modern book you would like to suggest?
I second Pillars of the Earth.
Anyone see the movie?
I nominate The Time Traveller's Wife, 518 pages.I also second Wolf Hall, The Husband's Secret and The Shipping News.
This is the Pre-Read thread for the August 2022 Modern selection. This month we will be reading Piranesi by Susanna Clarke.Please note that this is a SPOILER FREE discussion.
Who's planning to join in on this read? Why did you choose this particular book? Any expectations?
This is the Pre-Read thread for the August 2022 Classics selection. This month we will be reading Persuasion by Jane Austen.Please note that this is a SPOILER FREE discussion.
Who's planning to join in on this read? Why did you choose this classic book? Have you enjoyed other Jane Austen books?
Rebecca wrote: "Gone with the Wind"Rebecca, thank you for your great suggestion. We are collecting nominations in another thread, so I will add our recommendation there: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Adele wrote: "Are books previously read for the quarterly-long reads able to be nominated here? Like War and Peace or Les Misérables?"These previously-read books can be nominated in the Bookshelf Catchup section. Nominations for Read-A-Long books are posted in this topic: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Tracking through message: 39⭐ Poll Candidate
Nomination (# of pages) - # of Seconds
Gone with the Wind (1037p) - 5
⭐ Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (1006p) - 10
Lonesome Dove (960p) - 1
⭐ Middlemarch (904p) - 9
⭐ Don Quixote (1023p) - 6
⭐ The Pillars of the Earth (976p) - 8
Infinite Jest (1088p) - 3
Vanity Fair (867p) - 4
Hello Readers. This topic collects suggestions for the 6-month READ-A-LONG Book program, specifically from September 2022 to end of February 2023. The program is defined HERE. Top 4 books will be submitted for the poll.Books that qualify for this category:
1. Must have a minimum of 800 pages but can be any genre, either classic or modern.
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 on July 16.
