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from the EVERYONE Has Read This but Me - The Catch-Up Book Club group.
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Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for November 2021 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 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 September 16.
Tracking through message: 58⭐ Poll Candidate
Nomination (# of pages) - # of Seconds
A Thousand Splendid Suns (372p) - 5
⭐Where the Crawdads Sing (384p) - 8
⭐In Cold Blood (343p) - 8
⭐Wuthering Heights (464p) - 8
The Joy Luck Club (352p) - 4
Life of Pi (460p) - 5
⭐Slaughterhouse-Five (275p) - 7
The Fellowship of the Ring (527p) - 3
The Nightingale (448p) - 1
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (328p) - 1
These books have been re-read within the last 12 months and are ineligible to be nominated:Frankenstein
Lolita
Anne of Green Gables
The Kite Runner
Pride and Prejudice
Catch-22
The Bell Jar
1984
The Night Circus
Rebecca
A Christmas Carol
Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for November 2021 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 September 16.
Tracking through message: 54⭐ Poll Candidate
Nomination (# of pages) - # of Seconds
The Sun Down Motel (327p) - 1
American Dirt (459p) - 4
⭐The Things They Carried (246p) - 7
⭐Water for Elephants (335p) - 5
⭐The Vanishing Half (343p) - 10
The Beast: Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail (275p)
Simon the Fiddler (352p) - 1
2666 (898p) - 1
The Guest List (313p) - 4
The Travelling Cat Chronicles (288p) - 3
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (140p) - 1
⭐Parable of the Sower (345p) - 6
Recessional (540p)
The Queen's Gambit (243p) - 1
The Winter Sea (527p)
Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for November 2021 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 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 September 16.
Hello Readers!Welcome everyone to our September 2021 Catch-Up Group Read; this month we'll be reading Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov. This is our second group reading of this classic book.
Friendly reminder that this is the SPOILERS thread - if you're not yet ready for spoilers then head on over to the pre-read thread here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Do you trust Humbert's telling of this story? Did you feel any sympathy for him?
August 19
246 pages
Total Group Pages: 728,494
August 14
369 pages
Total Group Pages: 711,483
Missed reading this book in my youth, but enjoyed it now anyway. A breath of fresh air in our current nasty, angry culture. Did anyone feel that Mr. Phillip's obsession for 16-year old Prissy Andrews was weird? Seems like it was considered funny back in 1908.
Aug 9
320 pages
Total group pages: 707,188
I second The Alienist (498 pages).
I second Slaughterhouse-Five.
Christy wrote: "I nominate Interview With the Vampire by Anne Rice (342 pages)."Great suggestion, Christy, but this book was already read by the group in 2019. You can nominate it in the catch-up thread here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
I second Persuasion.
August 2
223 pages
Total Group Pages: 697,583
Hello Readers!Welcome everyone to our August 2021 Catch-Up Group Read; this month we'll be reading Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery. This is our second group reading of this classic book.
Friendly reminder that this is the SPOILERS thread - if you're not yet ready for spoilers then head on over to the pre-read thread here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
What do you find so endearing (or not) about Anne. Why do you think Anne renames everything? What was your favorite scene in the book?
