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.

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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You will receive 5 points for an initial post and 1 point for responding to a post and keeping the discussion going. I encourage you to ask questions and write down any interesting thoughts you had so we can have in-depth discussions and get more points!

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Book: Wuthering Heights
Message 35, 37
Points: 5
Points: 1

Total Points: 6



Happy Reading!

Total points: 5

Melissa - 5 points

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Book: Neverwhere
Message 46, 48
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Happy Reading!

Tracking through message: 59
⭐ Poll Candidate

Nomination (# of pages) - # of Seconds
⭐Invisible Man (581p) - 10
Rosemary's Baby (308p) - 2
⭐The War of the Worlds (192p) - 9
Cannery Row (181p) - 4
Doctor Zhivago (592p) - 8
⭐Persuasion (249p) - 11
David Copperfield (882p) - 3
The Good Earth (418p) - 4
⭐Gulliver's Travels: Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. (306p) - 9
Things Fall Apart (209p) - 5
Mrs. Dalloway (194p) - 4
To the Lighthouse (209p) - 4
The Age of Innocence - (293p) - 1

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

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⭐ Poll Candidate

Nomination (# of pages) - # of Seconds
Homegoing (305p) - 7
The Thorn Birds (692p) - 1
Angela's Ashes (452p) - 4
⭐Piranesi (245p) - 8
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (315p) - 6
⭐Wolf Hall (650p) - 8
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead (217p) - 2
⭐Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (359p) - 10
The Art of Racing in the Rain (321p) - 1
⭐Project Hail Mary (476p) - 9
⭐Kindred (287p) - 9
The Rose Code (624p)
Blindness (349p) - 2
Americanah (477p) - 3

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

Tracking through message: 59
⭐ Poll Candidate

Nomination (# of pages) - # of Seconds
The Raven (64p) - 3
⭐The Silent Patient (325p) - 6
A Thousand Splendid Suns (432p) - 4
Gone Girl (415p) - 2
⭐The Hate You Give (444p) - 9
⭐Slaughterhouse-Five (275p) - 6
⭐Memoirs of a Geisha (434p) - 7
⭐In Cold Blood (343p) - 6
⭐Ready Player One (374p) - 7
Life of Pi (460p) - 3
The Gift of the Magi (26p)

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

The Book Thief
Lord of the Flies
Circe
Emma
The Midnight Library
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Dune
Jane Eyre
Wuthering Heights
Frankenstein
Lolita

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

I am planning on reading Small Great Things. I found it in a little library and it is one I haven't read yet.

Yes you can re read books for this challenge!

Modern Team: 5 points
Classics Team: 5 points

Welcome to the first ever Catch-up Challenge! This challenge will run through the month of June and will focus on reading and discussing the books we have previously read as a group! Here is how it works:

1. Pick a book to read (or multiple books) from the Group Bookshelf

2. Once you have finished the book, make a post in that book's spoiler thread. This can be a review or just thoughts and questions about specifics or overall themes from the book. It must be more than, "I liked this book. It was good" to qualify for points.
Classics Spoiler discussionsHERE
Modern/Popular Spoiler discussions HERE

3. Make a post on either the Modern Team (if you are reading a modern/popular read) or Classic Team (if you are reading something from our Classics category) so I know you are participating and can log your points.

Scoring:
You will receive 5 points for an initial post and 1 point for responding to a post and keeping the discussion going. I encourage you to ask questions and write down any interesting thoughts you had so we can have in-depth discussions!

The Modern Team and Classics Team threads will be posted on June 1st. All books must be started after June 1st and finished by June 30th. However, don't feel like you have to stick with just one team! If your first pick was a classic and now you want to choose another book, but are drawn to the modern/popular books, no problem! you can log points in both team threads!

If you have any questions please post below, and let us know what you are planning to read. If more people are reading the same book the discussions can go on for longer and we can earn more points!

oops! Thanks Renata

I second The Martian and Memoirs of a Geisha

I nominate The Martian 384 pages.

I nominate Walden 352 pages

I just finished and also loved it! and agree with the comments I'm seeing here.

the derogatory comments about women bothered me a little too. I felt that this is just going to age worse and worse over the next few decades, but I also feel that it gives a very honest and raw perspective of how sexuality was treated at the time. To that extent I think there will always be historical value to this book. I also thought maybe the way his fiancee was portrayed was the way David personally perceived her. Her character was very much what society's idea of a woman was at the time and not very intimate or personal like how David describes loving Giovanni. So maybe this was symbolising how David couldn't love a woman as much as a man even though he wanted to?