Tori’s Comments (group member since Nov 25, 2016)

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

Kaseadillla wrote: "For inspiration...

Goodreads is posting about the "Century of Beloved Books" - maybe we tackle some of these as a group?

https://www.goodreads.com/blog/show/2..."

Great List! Lots of ideas for future nominations and quite a few we have already read! Thank you Kasey!

I second:
- The Hound of the Baskervilles
- The War of the Worlds
- We Have Always Lived in the Castle
- The Crucible

I second:
- House of Leaves
- World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
- Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

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⭐ Poll Candidate

Nomination (# of pages) - # of Seconds
⭐The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (244p) - 10
Cannery Row (181p) - 3
⭐The Scarlet Pimpernel (182p) - 9
⭐The Hound of the Baskervilles (256p) - 14
Robinson Crusoe (286p) - 6
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (176p) - 6
⭐The War of the Worlds (192p) - 8
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (108p) - 3
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (146p) - 5
The Crucible (143p) - 7
Fathers and Sons (244p) - 1
The Wind in the Willows (197p) - 2
A Separate Peace (208p)

Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for October 2022 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 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 August 16.

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⭐ Poll Candidate

Nomination (# of pages) - # of Seconds
City of Girls (470p) - 2
⭐Before We Were Yours (342p) - 5
My Sister, the Serial Killer (226p) - 2
⭐The Love Hypothesis (356p) - 7
⭐The Lincoln Highway (576p) - 7
Sophie's Choice (562p) - 1
Lessons in Chemistry (400p) - 3
House of Leaves (710p) - 1
The Forty Rules of Love (354p) - 2
Speak (224p) - 2
⭐World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (342p) - 5
⭐Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (352p) - 5
⭐Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (274p) - 5
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (111p) - 2
Everything Is Illuminated (276p) - 2
Shatter Me (338p) - 1
Hidden Figures (349p)
Anxious People (336p)

Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for October 2022 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, 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 August 16.

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⭐ Poll Candidate

Nomination (# of pages) - # of Seconds
The Shining (659p) - 3
⭐A Gentleman in Moscow (462p) - 10
⭐Ready Player One (374p) - 8
The Princess Bride - (456p) - 5
⭐Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (263p) - 6
Gone Girl (415p) - 5
⭐Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass (239p) - 6
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (480p) - 5
The House in the Cerulean Sea (394p) - 4
Coraline (162p) - 2
The Catcher in the Rye (277p) - 3

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

A Clockwork Orange
The Silent Patient
The Book Thief
Lord of the Flies
Circe
Emma
The Midnight Library
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Dune
Jane Eyre
Wuthering Heights

Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for October 2022 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 link: 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 August 16.

Elle - Yes, of course!

The Theme for July 1st - September 30th is One Word Title.

Sorry I missed this somehow! you can make a response to the book you read.

Melissa wrote: "Book: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Message 23
Points: 5"

Thank you, Melissa! A wonderful review!

I second:
- Invisible Man
- Rosemary's Baby
- The War of the Worlds
- Dr Zhivago
- Gulliver's Travels: Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Mrs. Dalloway

I second Memoirs of a Geisha

I second:
- Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
- Angela's Ashes
- Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

Kimberly wrote: "I nominate Gabriela, Clove and Cinammon by Jorge Amado. 448 pages, first published in 1958."

All nominations must have at least 50,000 ratings. Sorry but this doesn't qualify.

Team Total: 5 points

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Total points: 5

Melissa - 5 points