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.

Tracking through message: 71

Nomination (# of pages) - # of Seconds
The Hound of the Baskervilles (256p) - 9
Great Expectations (505p) - 13
The Iliad (683p) - 2
Nutcracker and Mouse King and the Tale of the Nutcracker (192p) - 6
Miracle on 34th Street (136p) - 5
East of Eden (601p) - 13
Hercule Poirot's Christmas (335p) - 8
The Outsiders (182p) - 13
The Day of the Triffids (228p) - 6
Wise Blood (160p)
Madame Bovary (329p) - 6
A Doll's House (122p) - 4
The Night Before Christmas (65p) - 1

Hi all! Starting up the monthly discussions for December 2020 book-of-the-month suggestions. This discussion is for the CLASSICS CATEGORY.

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 October 16

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Nomination (# of pages) - # of Seconds
One Day in December (393p) - 8
A Christmas Story (144p) - 4
Nothing Lasts Forever (245p)
The Help (451p) - 11
The House in the Cerulean Sea (393p) - 5
In the Time of the Butterflies (336p) - 1
The Clan of the Cave Bear (495p) - 5
The Fountains of Silence (512p) - 2
Just Kids (304p) - 2
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (465p) - 8
Peace Like a River (320p) - 2
Close to Home (289p)
The Starless Sea (494p) - 11
Ordinary People (263p) - 2
Hogfather (432p)

Hi all! Starting up the monthly discussions for December 2020 book-of-the-month suggestions. This discussion is for the MODERN CLASSIC/POPULAR category.

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 October 16.

Tracking through message: 54

Nomination (# of pages) - # of Seconds
The Bell Jar (294p) - 12
A Christmas Carol (104p) - 15
The Night Circus (391p) - 9
Pride and Prejudice (279p) - 5
The Nightingale (440p) - 2
The Picture of Dorian Gray (272p) - 11
1Q84 (925p) - 2
The Jungle Book (277p)

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

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
Circe
Wuthering Heights
The Alchemist
Littlle Women
American Gods

Hello everyone! It is time again to start the book-of-the-month suggestion threads for December 2020! This discussion is for the category called BOOKSHELF CATCH-UP.

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.

Books featured as a group reread within the last twelve months are not eligible.

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 October 16.

Total points: 25.5

October: 10.5 points
1. 10/4 Dune 624 pages + review = 3.5 points
2. 10/7 The Sandman, Vol. 7: Brief Lives 168 pages (graphic novel) +review = 1 point
3. 10/8 Coraline 162 pages +review +BOTM = 2 points
4. 10/14 The Sandman Vol. 8: Worlds' End 168 pages (graphic novel) +review = 1 point
5. 10/25 Dandelion Wine 239 pages + review = 1.5
6. 10/25 The Witches 208 pages + review = 1.5 points


November: 9.5 points
1. 11/1 The Halloween Tree 145 pages = 1 point
2. 11/5 The Black Cauldron 182 pages = 1 point
3. 11/7 The Old Man and the Sea 96 pages + BOTM + review = 2 points
4. 11/28 Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 498 pages + BOTM + review = 3 points
5. 11/29 Dracula 488 pages + review = 2.5 points

December: 5.5 points
1. 12/5 Maybe a Fox (272p.) + review =2.5 points
2. 12/13 Ariel: The Restored Edition (256p) (poetry) + review = 1.5 points
3. 12/14 A Christmas Carol (104p.) +BOTM = 1.5 points

I've been wanting to join a buddy read, and have wanted to read The Master and Margarita for awhile now, so this is perfect!

Miles - Welcome to the Earth house! It is never too late to join this challenge!

Thank you for volunteering Sonsoles! Let me know if you need help with anything!

I'm joining team Earth! 🌲

Flowers for Algernon was such a quick paced book for me. As was mentioned earlier this is used in an episode of the Simpsons and a couple other tv shows I can think of. So I already knew more or less how it was going to end, and I still flew through it!

I agree Charlie became hard to like at the peak of his intelligence. Like Magpie I was able to still feel sympathy for him though.

I love your post Lea! Being intelligent didn't make Charlie happy like he expected it to. It made me think about how it is so easy to think that reaching your goals is what will make you happy. When in reality it is the journey that makes you appreciate the end result. Charlie had surgery to be smart, and didn't have the fulfillment of getting that education through years of working at it. It was also interesting to see Charlie at both ends of the spectrum. He was an outcast before he became smart and an outcast when he got "too smart".

This book brought up so many ideas, but I think I'll stop here since I've been rambling for awhile. I'm glad this finally got read by our group!

Hi Kerri!
October - December's theme will be books that are a part of a series. That way if anyone is not currently reading a series they can still participate by starting a new series.

I had thought of the same problem with genres. What about if the theme was "books in your favorite genre"? We could do that as our first theme for next year!

I read this about 12 years ago and remember really liking it. I don't think I'll have time for a re-read this month, but I'll try to join in on the discussion if I remember as much as I think I do.

I second Frankenstein and The Martian.

I second The Old Man and the Sea

I'm excited to read this with you all, but unfortunately there are a lot of people in my area reading this right now. I have it on hold at the library, but it might still be another 2 weeks!

Thank you for including the page numbers in your nominations everyone! It helps me out a lot!

Kelly wrote: "I would like to nominate
The Martian
Life of Pi
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Dark Matter
Neverwhere"

As Renata said, only one nomination is allowed per person per category! As message 1 says I have counted The Martian as your nomination, but if you would rather one of the others on your list count for your nomination let me know asap!