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.

It is a new quarter, so it is time for a new theme!

July 1st - September 30th

Theme: Books that begin with the same letter(s) in your name.
(For example: With my name I can choose to have a book starting with T, O, R, and I and I will need to choose a second book that also starts with one of those letters. Or I could just read 5 books that start with the letter T. Or any combination of those. My list could turn out with 2 books that start with a "T", 2 books that start with an "R", and 1 book that starts with an "O".)

Tracking through message: 73

Nomination (# of pages) - # of Seconds
The Grapes of Wrath (479p) - 10
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (359p) - 3
Laura (219p) - 1
Gulliver's Travels (306p) - 9>
The Big Rock Candy Mountain
Villette (571p) - 10
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (510p) - 8
Siddharta (160p) - 9
The Book of Lamentations (400p) - 1
Silas Marner (262p) - 3
Their Eyes Were Watching God - 1
Tess of the D'Urbervilles (518p) - 4
Flowers for Algernon (216p) - 11
The Mill on the Floss (579p) - 1
Trouble Is My Business (224p) - 1
The Old Man and the Sea (96p) - 3

Hi all! Starting up the monthly discussions for September 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 July 16

Tracking through message: 76

Nomination (# of pages) - # of Seconds
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (339p) - 2
A Monster Calls (237p) - 11
American Psycho (399p) - 7
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek (308p) - 4
The Marriage Plot (406p) - 2
Mutiny on the Bounty
The Sand Child (176p) - 1
Pet Sematary (395p) - 1
The Virgin Suicides (250p)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (226p) - 6
Olive Kitteridge (270p) - 2
The Color Purple - 11
The Bluest Eye - 8
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration Into the Wonder of Consciousness (261p) - 1
Sula (174p) - 5
Homegoing (320p) - 6
My Dark Vanessa (384p) - 6
Requiem for a Dream (279p) - 2
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
Lonesome Dove (864p) - 4
The Dutch House (337p) - 4
Still Life with Woodpecker

Hi all! Starting up the monthly discussions for September 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 July 16.

Tracking through message: 73

Nomination (# of pages) - # of Seconds
Slaughterhouse-Five (275p) - 3
Dark Matter (342p) - 9
Pride and Prejudice (279p) - 5
Catch-22 - 10
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch - 5
The Book Thief (552p) - 9
Neverwhere - 11
The Picture of Dorian Gray (272p) - 2
The Thirteenth Tale (406p) - 2
Small Great Things (510p) - 4
Dune (604p) - 9
The Shining (688p)

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

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
Breakfast at Tiffany's
A Clockwork Orange
Murder on the Orient Express

Hello everyone! It is time again to start the book-of-the-month suggestion threads for September 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 July 16.

I read Pride and Prejudice with the group last year and although I didn't dislike the book, I wasn't a huge fan of it either. I am about 100 pages into Emma and so far I am liking it a lot more!

I second Dune!

I agree with Marcos, There are so many good nominations this month!

I second:
- Around the World in Eighty Days
- The Old Man and the Sea
- Flowers for Algernon

Rebecca wrote: "I nominate Frankenstein by Shelley (335 pages)"

Frankenstein has already been read as a group, so it does not qualify for this category. Feel free to go nominate it over on the catch-up thread!

I second:
- The Remains of the Day
- The Clan of the Cave Bear

Lea wrote: "I second americana and holes and nominate life of pi (460 pages)."

Hi Lea,
We've already read Life of Pi as a group. It has been nominated this month in the Catch-up thread, head over there to second it!

I second Beloved

Tracking through message: 87

Nomination (# of pages) - # of Seconds
Flowers for Algernon (311p) - 18
The Age of Innocence (293p) - 13
Brideshead Revisited (351p) - 5
The Left Hand of Darkness (304p) - 6
The Crucible (136p) - 2
Their Eyes Were Watching God (219p) - 5
Death Comes for the Archbishop (297p) - 5
The Invisible Man (192p) - 14
The Old Man and the Sea (96p) - 12
Crime and Punishment (671p) - 6
The Fire Next Time (106p) - 6
Around the World in Eighty Days (252p) - 10
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (389p) - 3
Silas Marner (262p) - 6
Mrs. Dalloway (194p) - 2
The Brothers Karamazov (796p)
Hard Times (286p) - 1

Hi all! Starting up the monthly discussions for August 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 June 16

Tracking through message: 84

Nomination (# of pages) - # of Seconds
How to Be an Antiracist (305p) - 14
The Remains of the Day (258p) - 15
My Dark Vanessa (384p) - 1
Holes (233p) - 4
The Normal Heart (128p) - 2
The Clan of the Cave Bear (512p) - 3
American Dirt (400p) - 2
The Bluest Eye (216p) - 10
Atonement (351p) - 2
Americanah (477p) - 13
Emotional Survival for Law Enforcement: A Guide for Officers and Their Families (142p)
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption (336p) - 2
American Psycho (399p) - 12
The Giver (208p) - 4
The Ten Thousand Doors of January (371p) - 2
Mystic River (416p)
No Country for Old Men (309p) - 2
The Thorn Birds (692p)
The Vegetarian (188p) - 3
The Tattooist of Auschwitz (262p) - 4
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness - 2
Norse Mythology (301p) - 1
The Lonesome Dove Chronicles (864p) - 1
Beartown (415p)

Hi all! Starting up the monthly discussions for August 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 on June 16.

Tracking through message: 91

Nomination (# of pages) - # of Seconds
The Book Thief (552p) - 14
The Bell Jar (294p) - 14
The Hate U Give (464p) - 10
Educated (334p) - 8
Beloved (291p) - 10
The Jungle Book (277p) - 9
Life of Pi (460p) - 5
Jane Eyre (532p) - 9
Dark Matter (342p) - 4
The Alchemist (197p) - 1
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (325p) - 5
Catch-22 (453p) - 8
Dune (604p) - 6
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (258p) - 1
A Man Called Ove (337p) - 2
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (335p) - 1