Kathy’s Comments (group member since Oct 16, 2017)

Kathy’s comments from the EVERYONE Has Read This but Me - The Catch-Up Book Club group.

December = 103

EHRTBM DECEMBER GROUP READS (+0.5 bonus points!)
✔ The Crucible by Arthur Miller (143 pages)
✔ Kindred by Octavia E. Butler (287 pages)
- The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (294 pages)

1-249 pages = 1 point
250-499 pages = 2 points
500-749 = 3 points
750-999 = 4 points
1000-1249 = 5 points

Books (view spoiler)[
1. The Secret Life of Cows / Rosamund Young (1 pt). 136 pages
2. The Vegetarian / Han Kang 12/2/22 (1 pt) 188 pages
3. Fall of Giants / Ken Follett 12/2/22 (4 pts) 985 pages
4. The Final Warning / James Patterson 12/2/22 (2 pts) 256 pages
5. This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work / Tiffany Jewell 12/3/22 (1 pt) 160 pages
6. Zombie Bake-Off / Stephen Graham Jones 12/4/22 (2 pts) 264 pages
7. Enough Already: Learning to Love the Way I Am Today / Valerie Bertinelli 12/4/22 (2 pts) 256 pages
8. One Snowy Night / Jill Shalvis 12/5/22 (1 pt.) 160 pages
9. It / Stephen King 16/6/22 (5 pts) 1116 pages
10. Green River, Running Red / Ann Rule - 12/7/22 (3 pts) - 704 pages
11. Valley of the Dolls / Jacqueline Susann 12/7/22 (2 pts.) 448 pages
12. The Call of the Wild / Jack London 12/8/22 (1 pt. ) 172 pages
13. Orphan Island / Laurel Snyder 12/8/22 (2 pts) 288 pages
14. Lake of the Ozarks: My Surreal Summers in a Vanishing America / Bill Geist 12/9/22 (1 pt.) 208 pages
15. The Detour of the Elephants / Dee Garretson 12/10/22 (1 pt) 149 pages
16. All That Is Mine I Carry with Me / William Landay 12/10/22 (2 pts) 336 pages
17. To the Future, Ben Franklin! / Mary Pope Osborne (1 pt) 114 pages
18. Four Past Midnight /Stephen King 12/11/22 (4 pts) 930 pages
19. The Christmas Pearl / Dorothea Benton Frank 12/12/22
20. Revolutionary War on Wednesday 12/12/22 (1 pt) 69 pages
21. Sandstorm / James Rollins 12/13/22 (3 pts) 608 pages
22. Dark Circles / Caite Dolan-Leach 12/14/22 (2 pts) 384 pages
23. The Silence of the Lambs / Thomas Harris 12/14/22 (2 pts.) 421 pages
24. Hour of the Olympics / Mary Pope Osborne 12/15 (1 pt) - 74 pages
25. Superman: Dawnbreaker / Matt de la Peña 12/15/22 (2 pts) 288 pages
26. The Vampire Mystery / Gertrude Chandler Warner 12/16/22 (1 pt) 128 pages
27. All the Dangerous Things / Stacy Willingham 12/16/22 (2 pts) 336 pages
28. The Crucible / Arthur Miller 12/18/22 (1.5 pts 1 pt + .5 BOTM) 143 pages
29. Just Like Home / Sarah Gailey 12/19/22 (2 pts) 344 pages
30. The Eagle Has Landed / Jack Higgins 12/20/22 (2 pts) 352 pages
31. Kindred / Octavia E. Butler 12/20/22 (2.5 pts. 2 pts + .5 BOTM) 287 pages
32. Gone with the Wind / Margaret Mitchell 12/21/22 (5 pts) 1,037 pages
33. The People We Hate at the Wedding / Grant Ginder 12/21/22 (2 pts) 326 pages
34. A Christmas Resolution / Anne Perry 12/22/22 (2 pts) 256 pages
35. The Demon Under the Microscope: From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor's Heroic Search for the World's First Miracle Drug / Thomas Hager 12/22/22 (2 pts) 340 pages
36. A Horse Named Dragon / Gertrude Chandler Warner 12/22/22 128 pages
37. Unwrapping Christmas / Kelly Fox 12/23/22 - 136 pages
38. The Dog-gone Mystery / Gertrude Chandler Warner 12/23/22 (1 pt) 128 pages
39. Angels & Demons / Dan Brown 12/23/22 (3 pts) 736 pages
40. A Leaf on the Wind of All Hallows 12/23 (1 pt) 57 pages
41. The Space Between 12/23 (1 pt) 118 pages
42. Upright Women Wanted / Sarah Gailey 12/25/22 (1 pt) 176 pages
43 Winter of the World / Ken Follett 12/27/22 (4 pts) 940 pages
44. Dark Desire / Christine Feehan 12/28/22 (2 pts.) 369 pages (hide spoiler)]
45. Pretty Girls / Karin Slaughter 12/29/22 (3 pts) 688 pages
46. Without Mercy / Jefferson Bass 12/30/22 (2 pts) 448 pages
47. Anne of Green Gables / L.M. Montgomery 12/31/22 (2 pts) 320 pages
48. The Untelling / Tayari Jones 12/31/22 (2 pts) 325 pages


Books points: 94

Easy Points
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1. (1 pt) Witness to a Trial / John Grisham 12/10 - 35 pages
2. (1 pt) The Veldt / Ray Bradbury 12/14/22 - 45 pages
3. (1 pt) The Black Cat / Edgar Allan Poe - 24 pages
4. (1 pt) Annabel Lee / Edgar Allan Poe - 24 pages
5. (1 pt) A Kiss With Teeth 12/23 - 24 pages
6. (1 pt) Cold Wind 12/23 - 17 pages
7. (1 pt) To Build a Fire 12/24 - 32 pages (hide spoiler)]
8. (1 pt) The Breathing Method / Stephen King 12/29 - 40 pages
9. (1 pt) Boca Raton - 12/31 - 31 pages
10. (1 pt) The Way the World Ends -12/31 - 42 pages
Total Easy Points

Total Points - December (94 + 10 = 104)

November - Points: 101(view spoiler)[

EHRTBM NOVEMBER GROUP READS (+0.5 bonus points!)
✔ Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
✔ Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

1-249 pages = 1 point
250-499 pages = 2 points
500-749 = 3 points
750-999 = 4 points
1000-1249 = 5 points

Books
1. The Identicals / Elin Hilderbrand /11/2 - (3 pts) 581 pages
2. Warped / K.W. Jeter 11/2/22 (2 pts.) 345 pages
3. A Crooked Kind of Perfect / Linda Urban 11/3 - (1 pt.) 224 pages [6 points]
4. Riding Freedom / Pam Muñoz Ryan / 11/3 (1 pt.) 144 pages
5. Shadow Tyrants / Clive Cussler 11/4/22 (2 Ppts.) 400 pages
6. The Hedge Knight / George R.R. Martin 11/4/22 (1 pt.) 85 pages
7. Winnie-the-Pooh / A.A. Milne 11/5/22 (1.5 pts) 161 pages + BOTM
8. My Little Brother / Diane Saxon 11/4/22 (2 pts) 420 pages [13.5]
9. Classic Goosebumps #29: The Ghost Next Door / R.L. Stine 11/5/22 (1 pt) 144 pages
10. The Sworn Sword 11/6 (1 pt) 81 pages
11. Daffodil Hill: And the Purpose of the Lavender Fields / Danette Key 11/5 (1 pt) 227 pages [16.5]
12. Mother Knows Best: A Tale of the Old Witch / Serena Valentino 11/6/22 (2 pt) 400 pages
13. The Color Master: Stories / Aimee Bender 11/6/22 (1 pt) 222 pages
14. Unbroken (Movie Tie-in Edition): A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption (3 pts) 720 pages
15. Christmas Miracle in Jamaica (1 pt) 192 pages [23.5]
16. Sparring Partners / John Grisham 11/8/22 (2 pts) 320 pages
17. Bound for Danger / Franklin W. Dixon 11/8/22 (1 pt) - 138 pages
18. Housekeeping / Marilynne Robinson 11/8/22 (1 pt) 219 pages
19. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass 11/ 8 1.5 pts + BOTM - 96 pages [29]
20. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 11/9 1 pt - 244 pages
21. Into Thin Air 11/10 (1 pt) 128 pages
22. The Thursday Murder Club (2 pt) 382 pages
23. The Mystery Knight 11/10 (1 pt) 104 pages
24. The Dire King / William Ritter 11/11/22 (2 pt) 352 pages
25. Mystery in the Sand / Gertrude Chandler Warner 11/11 (1 pt) 128 page [37]
26. Tree House Mystery 11/12 (1 pt) 128 pages
27. Dangerous Boys and Their Toy (1 pt) 194 pages
28. Voyager/ Diana Gabaldon 11/14/22 (5 pts) 1072 pages [44]
29. Lopsided: How Having Breast Cancer Can Be Really Distracting / Meredith Norton 11/14/2022 (1 pt) 213
30. After the Funeral / Agatha Christie 11/16/22 - 306 pages 2pts
31. The Shore / Sara Taylor 11/16/22 - 320 pages (2 pts)
32. Around the World in Eighty Days / Jules Verne 11/17/22 2 pt 252 pages [51]
33. The Cat Who Smelled a Rat / Lilian Jackson Braun 11/18/22
34. Glory over Everything / Kathleen Grissom 11/18 2 pts. 400 pages
35. What Stays Buried / Suzanne Young / 11/19 (2 pts) 272 pages
36. Philomel Cottage: A Short Story / Agatha Christie 11/20 1 pt 100 pages
37. The Bishop's Pawn / Steve Berry 11/20/22 (2 pt.) 352 pages
38. Red Queen 11/21 (2 pts) 400 pages
39. A Place Called Freedom / 11/22 (3 pts) 580 pages
40. Long Bright River / Liz Moore 11/22 (3 pts) 656 pages
41. Our Missing Hearts / Celeste Ng 11/23/2022 (2 pts) 347 pages
42. Diana: Her True Story in Her Own Words / Andrew Morton 2 pts 11/23/22
43. Game On: Tempting Twenty-Eight / Janet Evanovich 2 pts 11/24/22
44. Q is for Quarry / Sue Grafton 11/25/22 (3 pts) 618 pages
45. Master of the Game / Sidney Sheldon 11/26/22 (2 pts) 489 pages
46. Deprivation House / Franklin W. Dixon 11/26/22 (1 pt) 176 pages
47. Sidney Sheldon's Mistress of The Game / Tilly Bagshawe 11/27/22 (3 pts) 522 pages
48. Who Moved My Goat Cheese? / Lynn Cahoon 11/27/22 (1 pt) 184 pages
49. I'm Glad My Mom Died / Jennette McCurdy 11/28/22 (2 pts) 320 pages
50. A Dance with Dragons / George R.R. Martin 11/30/22 (5 pts) 1125 pages


Books points:

Easy Points

1. (1 pt) Mommy and the Satanists / Carl R. Moore 11/1 49 pages
2. (1 pt) The Dressmaker's Doll - an Agatha Christie Standalone Short Story / Agatha Christie 11/3 - 37 pages
3. (1 pt) The Man in the Mist / Agatha Christie 11/5 - 40 pages
4. (1 pt) A Mother's Day: A Short Story 11/7 - 20 pages
5. (1 pt) Ash Wednesday 11/7 - 37 pages
6. (1 pt) The Witness for the Prosecution 11/8 - 35 pages
7. (1 pt) A Wild Rose 11/10 - 36 pages
8. (1 pt) Chapter Six 11/20 - 18 pages
9. (1 pt) All Revved Up 11/25 - 43 pages
10. (1 pt) Bitter Grounds 11/27 - 17 pages
Total Easy Points

6Total Points - November (91 + 10 = 99) (hide spoiler)]

October - FINAL - 108 points (view spoiler)[

EHRTBM OCTOBER GROUP READS (+0.5 bonus points!)
- War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
- Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
- A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

1-249 pages = 1 point
250-499 pages = 2 points
500-749 = 3 points
750-999 = 4 points
1000-1249 = 5 points

Books
1. Wildlife / Jeff VanderMeer 10/1/22 (57 pages) (1 pt.)
2. The Backbone of the World / Stephen Graham Jones 10/1/22 (54 pages) (1 pt.)
3. Doctor Ice Pick / Claire Prentice 10/2/2022 (85 pages) (1 pt.)
4. The Wish / Nicholas Sparks 10/3/22 (387 pages) (2 pts.)
5. The Halloween Tree / Ray Bradbury 10/3/22 (145 pages) (1 pt.)
6. The Haunting of Alejandra / V. Castro 10/4/22 (272 pages) (2 pt.)
7. Naomi's Gift/Martha Hall Kelly 10/4/22 (53 pages) (1 pt.)
8. Oh. What. Fun. / Chandler Baker 10/4/22 (59 pages) (1 pt.)
9. Prehistoric / Michael Esola 10/5/22 (317 pages) (2 pts.)
10. Belle Mer / Luanne Rice 10/5/22 (51 pages) (1 pt.)
11. Pickman's Model / H.P. Lovecraft 10/5/22 (66 pages) (1 pt.)
12. Mischling / Affinity Konar 10/5/22 (344 pages) (2 pts.)
13. The Christmas Light / Donna VanLiere 10/6/22 (224 pages) (1 pt.)
14. Evidence of the Affair / Taylor Jenkins Reid 10/7/22 (86 pages) (1 pt.)
15. The Last Line / Robert Dugoni 10/7/22 (53 pages) (1 pt.)
16. The War of the Worlds / H.G. Wells 10/8/22 (1.5 pts.) (192 pages and BOTM)
17. The Boys from Biloxi / John Grisham 10/9/22 (2 pts.) (464 pages)
18. The Possessions / Sara Flannery Murphy 10/10/22 (2 pts).
19. Iditarod Nights / Cindy Hiday 10/11/22 (1 pt.) (200 pages)
20. The Phantom of Nantucket / Carolyn Keene 10/11/22 (1 pt.) (192 pages)
21. Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century / Kim Fu 10/12/22 (1 pt.) (220 pages)
22. The Wedding Setup: A Short Story / Sonali Dev 10/12/22 (1 pt.) (67 pages)
23. The Case of the Vanishing Blonde: And Other True Crime Stories / Mark Bowden 10/13/22 (1 pt.) (232 pages)
24. xoxo / Kristina Wright 10/14/22 (1 pt.) (213 pages)
25. Black River Falls / Jeff Hirsch 10/14/22 (2 pts. 336 pages)
26. The Winter People / Jennifer McMahon 10/15/22 (2 pt.) (317 pages)
27. The Godfather / Mario Puzo 10/15/22 (2 pts.) (448 pages)
28. The Marriage Test / Suzanne Redfearn 10/16/22 (1 pt.) (68 pages)
29. Clarice the Brave / Lisa McMann 10/17/22 (2 pts.) (272 pages)
30. They Met in a Tavern / Elijah Menchaca 10/18/22 (2 pts.) 416 pages
31. The Amazing Mrs. Pollifax / Dorothy Gilman 10/18/22 (1 pt.) (176 pages)
32. Signal Moon / Kate Quinn 10/18/2022 (1 pt.) (57 pages)
33. Exiles / Jane Harper 10/19/22 (2 pts.) 368 pages
34. Nights in Rodanthe / Nicholas Sparks 10/20/22 (1 pt.) 222 pages
35. Man's Search for Meaning / Viktor E. Frankl 10/20/22 (1 pt.) 165 pages
36. The Story of Tutankhamun: An Intimate Life of the Boy who Became King / Garry J. Shaw 10/21/22 (1 pt.) 208 pages
37. How They Croaked / Georgia Bragg 10/21/22 (1 pt.) (184 pages)
38. The Wehrwolf / Alma Katsu 10/21/22 (1 pt.) 79 pages
39. Legends of the Ferengi / Ira Steven Behr 10/22/22 (1 pt.) (158 pages)
40. Sea Witch Rising / Sarah Henning 10/21/22 (2 pts.) (416 pages)
41. Weasels in the Attic / Hiroko Oyamada 10/22/22 (1 pt.) 96 pages
42. Ship of the Line / Diane Carey 10/23/22 (2 pts.) 336 pages
43. The Aurora County All-Stars / Deborah Wiles 10/24/22 (2 pts.) 256 pages
44. The Dragon Egg Princess / Ellen Oh 10/24/22 (2 pts.) 256 pages
45. First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong / James R. Hansen 10/24/22 (4 pts.) 769 pages
46. Into the Dark /Claudia Gray 10/25/22 (2 pts.) 425 pages
47. Mrs. Roopy Is Loopy! / Dan Gutman 10/26/22 (1 pt.) 96 pages
48. The Secret of Shadow Ranch / Carolyn Keene 10/26/22 (1 pt.) 160 pages
49. Rendezvous / Nelson DeMille 10/26/22 (1 pt.) 60 pages
50. Miss Daisy Is Crazy! / Dan Gutman 10/26/22 (1 pt.) 96 pages
51. The Sun and Her Flowers / Rupi Kaur 10/26/22 (.5 pts - poetry) 256 pages
52. The Midnight Library / Matt Haig 10/27/22 (2 pts) 288 pages
53. Twice a Victim / Ralph Dellapiana 10/27/22 (2 pts) 332 pages
54. Hell's Diva / Anna J. 10/27/22 (1 pt.) 199 pages
55. Annihilation / Jeff VanderMeer 10/27/22 (1 pt) 195 pages
56.Mr. Klutz Is Nuts! / Dan Gutman 10/27/22 (1 pt.) 112 pages
57. Rowley Jefferson's Awesome Friendly Adventure / Jeff Kinney 10/28/22 (1 pt.) 224 pages
58. Hell's Diva II / Anna J. 10/28/22 (2 pts.) 288 pages
59. Mrs. Cooney Is Loony! / Dan Gutman 10/29/22 (1 pt.) 112 pages
60. Don't Fear the Reaper / Stephen Graham Jones (2 pts.) 464 pages
61. The 34th Rule / Armin Shimerman 10/29/22 (2 pts.) 425 pages
62. Blood Moon / Linda Castillo 10/29/22 (1 pt.) 64 pages
63. Down a Dark Road / Linda Castillo 10/29/22 (2 pts.) 320 pages
64. Born to Rock / James Patterson 10/30/22 (2 pts) 320 pages
65. Spirit Hunters / Ellen Oh 10/31/22 (2 pts) 288 pages
66. Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas / James Patterson 10/31/22 (2 pts) 289 pages
67. The Little Prince / Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 10/31 (1 pt.) 96 pages
68. Journey on a Runaway Train / Gertrude Chandler Warner 10/31 (1 pt) 160 pages
69. Ms. LaGrange Is Strange! / Dan Gutman 10/31/22 (1 pt.) 112 pages


Books points: 99

Easy Points
1. (1 pt) The Tiger Came to the Mountains/Silvia Moreno-Garcia 10/1/22 (28 pages)
2. (1 pt) Stag / Karen Russell 10/2/22 (40 pages)
3. (1 pt) A Righteous Man / Tochi Onyebuchi 10/2/22 (30 pages)
4. (1 pt) Bloody Summer / Carmen Maria Machado 10/2/22 (27 pages)
5. (1 pt) Haunting Olivia/Karen Russell 10/4/22 (22 pages)
6. (1 pt) My Evil Mother / Margaret Atwood 10/5/22 (32 pages)
7. (1 pt) This Telling / Cheryl Strayed 10/8/22 (34 pages)
8. (1 pt) Shine, Pamela! Shine! / Kate Atkinson 10/8/22 (20 pages)
9. (1 pt) The Cleaners / Ken Liu 10/9/22 (28 pages)
10. (1 pt) The Contractors / Lisa Ko 10/9/22 (24 pages)
Total Easy Points 10 Completed for October

Total Points - October (98 + 10 = 108) (hide spoiler)]

Took the quiz, I'm a Club!

I second The Andromeda Strain

I was surprised by the amount of books on my TBR that had one word titles. Looking forward to knocking them off the list.

Sarah wrote: "Girls certainly can be cruel, but there are a lot of things these boys do that I agree girls wouldn't. I think there would have been a total breakdown of order with girls too, but I think a lot would happen differently."

Agreed. I think girls hold grudges far more than boys do. Everything would have broken down, but in a different way.

When I read this in high school (many years ago), the teacher kept pointing out the symbolism. A lot of it was clear so this spoiled the reading experience. As an adult, I understand why it was required reading. Unfortunately, the way it was taught did not lead to thoughtful thinking and discussion.

The tribe that would rather have fun, no responsibilities and let others take care of life's necessities exists today, hopefully we fare better than the boys did.

376 pages

Group total: 205,515

USA, If Beale Street Could Talk, Feb 28, 197 pages

USA, Just Like Mother, Feb 26, 320 pages

USA, Go Set a Watchman, Feb 26, 278 pages

USA, When the Sacred Ginmill Closes, Feb 25, 272 pages

USA, When Animals Rescue: Amazing True Stories about Heroic and Helpful Creatures, Feb 24, 160 pages

USA, To Kill a Mockingbird, Feb 23, 336 pages + 50 bonus bookshelf

USA, Bone Deep: Untangling the Betsy Faria Murder Case, 2/22, 384 pages

USA, Vanishing Acts, Feb 20, 426 pages

USA, Life or Death, Feb 18 418 pages

USA, The Woodshed Mystery, Feb 16, 160 pages

USA, Upgrade, 2/15, 352 pages

USA, Hide and Seek, 2/14, 192 pages