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from the EVERYONE Has Read This but Me - The Catch-Up Book Club group.
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Tracking through message: 67⭐Poll Candidate
Nomination (# of pages) - # of Seconds
Small Great Things (510) - 2
The Sun Also Rises (189) - 6
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (325) - 3
Life of Pi (460) - 5
⭐Pachinko (512) - 14
⭐One Hundred Years of Solitude (417) - 13
⭐Catch-22 (453) - 10
The Thirteenth Tale (406) - 2
Gone Girl (432) - 3
⭐Dark Matter (342) - 9
Love in the Time of Cholera (348) - 5
Slaughterhouse-Five (275) - 2
The Handmaid's Tale (314) - 1
The Secret Garden (331)
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (370) - 3
These books have been re-read within the last 12 months and are ineligible to be nominated:The Bell Jar
1984
The Night Circus
Rebecca
A Christmas Carol
All the Light We Cannot See
The Haunting of Hill House
Dune
The Hate U Give
The Fellowship of the Ring
Farenheit 451
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for May 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 March 16.
Tracking through message: 74⭐Poll Candidate
Nomination (# of pages) - # of Seconds
⭐Scythe (435) - 5
⭐The White Tiger (276) - 5
Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment (203)
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (230) - 4
⭐The Midnight Library (288) - 23
⭐Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (388) - 12
News of the World (209) - 4
⭐The Vanishing Half (434) - 12
Where the Sidewalk Ends (176) - 1
Life After Life (529) - 4
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (315) - 1
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (320) - 1
White Teeth (448) - 4
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York (319) - 1
A Deadly Education (336) - 1
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time (349)
⭐Rules of Civility (335) - 5
The Year of Magical Thinking (227)
Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for May 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 March 16.
Tracking through message: 65⭐Poll Candidate
Nomination (# of pages) - # of Seconds
⭐The War of the Worlds (192) - 11
⭐Great Expectations (505) - 10
⭐The Phantom of the Opera (360) - 13
⭐The Age of Innocence (293) - 10
The Fountainhead (753) - 1
Wide Sargasso Sea (171) - 1
Howards End (359) - 7
The Stranger (123) - 7
The Price of Salt: Or Carol (256) - 2
Wise Blood (256)
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (146) - 2
David Copperfield (882)
The Three Musketeers (625) - 1
Mansfield Park (488)
Tess of the D'Urbervilles (518) - 1
The Master and Margarita (372) - 2
Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for May 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 March 16.
Hello Readers!Welcome everyone to our March 2021 Classics Group Read; this month we'll be reading Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
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 did you think of this classic book? What scenes were most suspenseful? What moralilty issues most affected you?
Hello Readers!Welcome everyone to our March 2021 Modern Classic/Popular Group Read; this month we'll be reading The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris.
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 did you think of this book? Did it change your perspective of this time in history?
Ananya wrote: "hey! I love love to read 1984 this month. I have never read it before and I have a fair idea of what to except. I was looking for a buddy or a read along. I'm so glad I found it. when are we planni..."1984 is our March selection, when we will unlock the spoiler thread for discussion. But you can start reading whenever you wish. Enjoy!
Gunit Kaur Kalada wrote: "A new friend on goodreads brought me to this group and these interesting challenges. I am so glad and so excited.I have one query. If I start now, I can only consider books I read after today, ri..."
Glad you can join in. You can add books read starting from January 1st of this year. Have fun!
368 pages
Feb.20
Total Group Pages: 169,227
Feb 17
340 pages
Total Group Pages: 163,354
Not a lover of circuses, magic, romance or fantasy, but I loved this book! It had just enough of each and plenty of atmosphere. The writing was lovely. Kept thinking of Cirque de Soleil as I read the descriptions of the circus.
February 12
391 pages
Total Group Pages: 139,753
Jen from Quebec :0) wrote: "Dang! Now THIS is the type of book that would actually (ironically?) benefit from being in a longer, quarterly type of read, where members have more than 1 month to read this (amazing) novel. There..."Yes, it is a long one! But since it's our March read, it could be started now and be finished by end-March. That's two months to enjoy it!
Melissa wrote: "do you mean February read? not March? just confirming"It's our March read. February's is underway. We're reading The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo.
Hello Readers!This is the Pre-Read thread for the March 2021 Modern Classics or Popular selection. This month we will be reading The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris. Please note that this is a SPOILER FREE discussion.
Who's planning to join in on this read? What are your expectations in picking this book up?
Hello Readers!This is the Pre-Read thread for the March 2021 Classics selection. This month we will be reading Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Please note that this is a SPOILER FREE discussion.
Who's planning to join in on this read? What are your expectations in picking this book up?
