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.

Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for March 2022 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 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 January 16.

Tracking through message: 68
⭐ Poll Candidate

Nomination (# of pages) - # of Seconds
⭐Memoirs of a Geisha (503p) - 12
⭐A Wrinkle in Time (211p) - 10
The Thirteenth Tale (406p) - 2
⭐Neverwhere (370p) - 10
⭐The Midnight Library (304p) - 13
The Sun Also Rises (189p) - 1
The Martian (384p) - 5
The Golden Compass (399p) - 7
Beloved (324p) - 5
The Picture of Dorian Gray (272p) - 4
American Gods (635p) - 2

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

One Hundred Years of Solitude
Dune
Jane Eyre
Wuthering Heights
Frankenstein
Lolita
Anne of Green Gables
The Kite Runner
Pride and Prejudice
Catch-22
The Bell Jar

Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for March 2022 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 January 16.

OK, I will kick this off. It's a new year and I'm ready for a new book. Please check my Want-To-Read list and let me know what I should read next, and why.

***Remember, don't reply unless you are ready for a new book assignment too.***

Frequently Asked Questions

Question: How do I find a person's Want-To-Read list?
Answer: Click on their name and look in their bookshelves under "to-read". It's usually the 3rd shelf listed.

Ready for a new read? Need to reduce your Want-To-Read Bookshelf too?

This game is a fun way to choose your next great book. Let someone else do it for you! Here’s how to play:

1. Look at the latest message. Browse through their Want-To-Read list and select a book.
2. Reply to the message with your book choice, tell why you chose that book, and indicate you are ready for your new assignment too.
3. Check back for the next message, which should provide your book assignment.
4. Read the assigned book and repeat steps 1 to 4.

Remember, only post when you are ready for your next read. This game is a great way to find new books that you might enjoy, reduce your own TBRs, and make new GR friends too.

Ready, set, relay!

Congratulations, dear readers, on visiting almost 3/4 of the world's countries without leaving your home! I did my best to catch all your visits and have updated the map to show our group's results. I surely learned some new geography and read some very interesting books. Hope you enjoyed your sofa travels too!

Final update for #209. December total is 19.5, and 3-month challenge total is 100.5.

Happy New Year, everyone!

Happy holidays, everyone!
Just updated #209, now at 10 points for December.

Updated #209. Now 8 points in December.

I second Apples Never Fall.

Anjali wrote: "I nominate Kafka on the Shore"

Stephan, this topic is for books that have previously been read by the group. Instead, you can nominate this great book in the Modern suggestions thread here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

A. wrote: "Clouds and Sunshine by Rabindranath Tagore, the first non-white, non-European lit Nobel laureate."

Thank you for your suggestion, but your book has only 25 ratings so doesn't qualify as well-read quite yet.

December is such a busy month! Just finished my first book, updated #209 with 2 points.

Jennifer wrote: "Oh my team. I am hating Secret History. I am trolling FB instead of reading! I am listening to affirmations repeated over and over instead of reading! Good luck with that chunker."

Oh,oh. Was planning to read it too, but haven't been able to get a library copy yet. Maybe I'll just skip it for the month. Plenty of other books waiting.

Lorraine wrote: "Hello. Is there a link for the mid reading?"

Not sure what mid-reading means, but you can post in the Spoiler thread here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Adrienne wrote: "I nominate How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need by Bill Gates 288pgs"

Adrienne, so sorry, but your book doesn't fall within our new guideline for being well-read. ie. It hasn't reached 50K ratings yet.

I second Dark Matter.

I second Foundation.