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 begins a group discussion of our Classics book selection, The Awakening by Kate Chopin, nominated by Sandra.
Here you can comment, without spoilers, on any aspects of the book, either before, during, or after reading it.

I second The Three Musketeers.

I second Hound of Baskervilles.

I nominate The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood, 637 pages.

I second The Help.

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☂️Poll Candidate

The Anxious Generation (400p) - 3
The Help (464p) - 3
Captain Corelli's Mandolin (436p) - 3
Refugee (352p) - 1
The Blind Assassin (637p) - 1
☂️Bridget Jones’s Diary (288p) - 4
☂️The Personal Librarian (341p) - 6
☂️The Immortalists (352p) - 5
☂️Song of Solomon (337p) - 10
House of Earth and Blood (803p) - 3
Mad Honey (464p) - 3
☂️The Year of Magical Thinking (227p) - 4
My Name Is Red (417p) - 2
Angels & Demons (736p) - 3

Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for June 2025 in the MODERN/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 April 16.

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☂️Poll Candidate

☂️Journey to the Center of the Earth (240p) - 5
☂️A Passage to India (376p) - 9
The Good Earth (418p) - 4
☂️Black Beauty (245p) - 6
☂️Stoner (292p) - 5
The Three Musketeers (431p) - 4
Fathers and Sons (244p) - 4
Hamlet (289p) - 3
Mary Poppins (209p) - 4
Where the Red Fern Grows (272p) - 3
☂️The Blue Castle (218p) - 6
Mrs. Dalloway (194p) - 3
The Maltese Falcon (213p) - 1

Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for June 2025 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 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 April 16.

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☂️Poll Candidate

☂️Of Mice and Men (107p) - 7
☂️And Then There Were None (264p) - 8
Fahrenheit 451 (194p) - 5
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (325p) - 3
To Kill a Mockingbird (323p) - 1
Small Great Things (480p) - 3
☂️The Hound of the Baskervilles (256p) - 6
☂️The Jungle Book (277p) - 6
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (226p) - 3
☂️The Joy Luck Club (288p) - 6
Lord of the Flies (182p) - 3

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

The Princess Bride
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Pride and Prejudice
A Christmas Carol
The Midnight Library
Jane Eyre
Pachinko
Never Let Me Go
The Thursday Murder Club

Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for June 2025 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 selected 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 April 16

Kim wrote: "I nominate The Backyard Bird Chronicles by Amy Tan. (278 pg.)"

Kim, this book doesn't quite meet our "well-read" criteria of 50K ratings (see message 1 above). Is there another book you would like to suggest instead?

Marla wrote: "Just finished and it was a good 4 star read.

I don't do much on this group except for this challenge, so I'm sad to see it go. But thank you for this challeng..."

Marla, good news! Due to popular demand, we have re-instated this challenge. Please submit your comment here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

This begins a group discussion of our Classics book selection, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, nominated by Lea.
Here you can comment, without spoilers, on any aspects of the book, either before, during, or after reading it.

This begins a group discussion of our Modern book selection, The Road by Cormac McCarthy, nominated by spoko.
Here you can comment, without spoilers, on any aspects of the book, either before, during, or after reading it.

I nominate The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury, 182 pages.

I nominate The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch, 217 pages.

I nominate Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen, 260 pages.

I second Talk About Kevin.