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.

October 1
304 pages

Total Group Pages: 855,255

October Books - 43 Points Final

✅ The Premonition: A Pandemic Story - 304 pages - Oct.1 - 2 points
✅ The House in the Cerulean Sea - 394 pages - Oct.5 - 2 points
✅ Something Wicked This Way Comes - 293 pages - Oct.8 - 2.5 points (BOTM)
✅ Green Eggs and Ham - 64 pages - Oct.9 - .5 points
✅ I Am Not Going to Get up Today! - 48 pages - Oct.9 - .5 points (Easy #1)
✅ One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish - 64 pages - Oct.9 - .5 points
✅ Conversations with Dogbert - 48 pages - Oct.9 - .5 points (Easy #2)
✅ The Memory Tree - 32 pages - Oct.12 - .5 points (Easy #3)
✅ Pirates Love Underpants - 32 pages - Oct.12 - .5 points (Easy #4)
✅ Melvis And Elvis - 40 pages - Oct.13 - .5 points (Easy #5)
✅ Dearly - 124 pages - Oct.14 - .5 points (Poems)
✅ The Rat - 32 pages - Oct.14 - .5 points (Easy #6)
✅ The Tell-Tale Heart - 31 pages - Oct.14 - 1 point (Easy #7)
✅ The Masque of the Red Death - 76 pages - Oct.15 - 1 point
✅ The Cask of Amontillado - 20 pages - Oct.15 - 1 point (Easy #8)
✅ The Premature Burial - 32 pages - Oct.16 - 1 point (Easy #9)
✅ The Pit and the Pendulum - 56 pages - Oct.16 - 1 point
✅ The Raven - 64 pages - Oct.17 - .5 points (Poem)
✅ The Fall of the House of Usher - 36 pages - Oct.20 - 1 point (Easy #10)
✅ The Little Prince - 96 pages - Oct.19 - 1 point
✅ Project Hail Mary - 476 pages - Oct.18 - 2 points
✅ The Yellow Wallpaper - 63 pages - Oct.20 - 1 point
✅ Frankenstein - 352 pages - Oct.27 - 2.5 points (BOTM)
✅ Killer Chef - 144 pages - Oct.19 - 1 point
✅ Is This Anything? - 480 pages - Oct.21 - 2 points
✅ To the Lighthouse - 209 pages - Oct.25 - 1 point
✅ The Story of the Bagman's Uncle... - 112 pages - Oct.22 - 1 point
✅ To Be Taken With A Grain Of Salt - 150 pages - Oct.23 - 1 point
✅ Man-Size in Marble - 64 pages - Oct.23 - 1 point
✅ The Canterville Ghost - 126 pages - Oct.24 - 1 point
✅ The Haunted Dolls' House - 202 pages - Oct.22 - 1 point
✅ The Thing on the Doorstep - 250 pages - Oct.24 - 2 points
✅ From Beyond - 99 pages - Oct.25 - 1 point
✅ Pickman's Model - 66 pages - Oct.26 - 1 point
✅ The Time Machine - 118 pages - Oct.30 - 1 point
✅ Of Mice and Men - 103 pages - Oct.29 - 1 point
✅ Solaris - 204 pages - Oct.28 - 1 point
✅ Earthman, Come Home - 256 pages - Oct.28 - 2 points
✅ The Pearl - 96 pages - Oct.31 - 1 point

I'd like to join SPRING, my favorite season.

Sept 16
331 pages

Total Group Pages: 812,890

Thank you for these great nominations. This topic is now closed, but you can cast your vote in the poll here: https://www.goodreads.com/poll/list/1...

Thank you for these great nominations. This topic is now closed, but you can cast your vote in the poll here: https://www.goodreads.com/poll/list/1...

Thank you for these great nominations. This topic is now closed, but you can cast your vote in the poll here: https://www.goodreads.com/poll/list/1...

I'm just about to start reading this classic. I expect to be disturbed by the content, but maybe there's some empathy and understanding to be gained as well. We'll see...

Sept 7
444 pages

Total Group Pages: 775,411

I second Slaughterhouse-Five.

I second The Things They Carried.

I nominate American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins, 459 pages.

I nominate All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, 296 pages (1929)

Hello Readers!
This is the Pre-Read thread for the October 2021 Catch-Up selection. This month we will be reading Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.

Please note that this is a SPOILER FREE discussion.

Who's planning to join in on this read? Why did you choose this book to read? What are your expectations in reading this book?

Hello Readers!
This is the Pre-Read thread for the October 2021 Classics selection. This month we will be reading Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury.

Please note that this is a SPOILER FREE discussion.

Who's planning to join in on this read? Why did you choose this book to read? What are your expectations in reading this book?

Hello Readers!
This is the Pre-Read thread for the October 2021 Modern/Popular selection. This month we will be reading Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia.

Please note that this is a SPOILER FREE discussion.

Who's planning to join in on this read? Why did you choose this book to read? What are your expectations in reading this book?

Melanie :) wrote: "The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood"

Hi Melanie: This book has already been read by the group, 3 times now. But you can nominate it in the Catch-Up thread here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

OK, I'll kick it off. How about A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (372 pages).

Manisha wrote: "It's in my TBR too.. When in September will this read start? I mean in the beginning of the month or later?"

Anytime this month.

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⭐ Poll Candidate

Nomination (# of pages) - # of Seconds
⭐Man's Search for Meaning (165p) - 6
⭐The Turn of the Screw (121p) - 7
⭐All Quiet on the Western Front (296p) - 11
Persuasion (249p) - 5
Up the Down Staircase (368p) - 1
⭐The Scarlet Letter (279p) - 8
Steppenwolf (256p) - 5
David Copperfield (882p) - 1
Inferno (490p) - 1
The Saga of Gösta Berling (399p) - 2
To the Lighthouse (209) - 1