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I really enjoyed the whole story! I've never read or seen any of the Sherlock Holmes books or shows/movies. Looking at the other comments here, maybe it was more enjoyable for me because I did not have the preconceived characters and voices in my head? I'm with Olive, I liked the background in part 2 better than the mystery parts, but I've never been a big fan of mysteries in general. I thought the switch from part 1 to part 2 was really unique and it showed off how Arthur Conan Doyle could write in different styles. I would have enjoyed reading a western series written by him as well.
Renee wrote: "I would like to nominate Murder on the Nile andA Clockwork Orange"We've already read A Clockwork orange, please nominate it over in the catch-up thread.
Please try to include page numbers in your nominations, it helps a lot!
I'm on a waiting list to get this book from the library so I don't know if I will get to it this month.
June 5
322 pages
Total Group Pages: 766,455
June 4
Pages: 123
Total Group Pages: 758,834
Kathy wrote: "Glad I found this..How to Argue with a Cat: A Human's Guide to the Art of Persuasion June 1"
Kathy, please only use one book per post. How to Argue with a Cat is the only book that has been counted from your post:
"Important Notes: Every book must have its own post to count. Posts with multiple books per post will only have the first book accounted for."
Colleen wrote: "Can I Second two? Pachinko and In Cold Blood."Please second as many as you want to!
Tracking: through message 73Nomination (pages) - # of Seconds
Gone Girl (415 p.) - 9
The Key (416 p.) - 3
Interview with the Vampire (342 p.) - 14
The Gardener of Baghdad (268 p.) - 1
Where the Crawdads Sing (370 p.) - 8
Like Water for Chocolate (224 p.) - 2
The Snowman (383p.)
The Poisonwood Bible (546 p.) - 6
A Gentleman in Moscow (496 p.) - 18
The Shadow of the Wind (487 p.) - 10
Americanah (477 p.) - 9
The Silence of the Lambs (338 p.) - 3
The Light Between Oceans (343 p.) - 1
Redwall (352 p.) - 3
NOTE: the nominees that are bolded and italicized are the poll front-runners.
Hello everyone! It is time again for the book-of-the-month suggestion threads for August 2019!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.
Not a hard and fast rule, but please try to limit your nominations to one book per category. But please do second any that interest you! The number of seconds determine poll inclusion.
>>> Attention, please: We will be featuring page numbers in the poll, so please include page numbers in your nomination if possible.
Nominations end Midnight June 16.
Tracking: through message 62Nomination (pages) - # of Seconds
Charlotte's Web (184 p.) - 7
The Pearl (96 p.) - 7
Siddharta (131 p.) - 5
All Quiet on the Western Front (296 p.) - 5
The Two Towers (252 p.) - 4
The Brothers Karamazov (796 p.) - 7
The Master and Margarita (373 p.) - 15
Uncle Tom's Cabin (438 p.) - 3
Night (115 p.) - 11
Great Expectations (505 p.) - 6
East of Eden (601 p.) - 1
Murder on the Nile (104 p.) - 3
NOTE: the nominees that are bolded and italicized are the poll front-runners.
Hello everyone! It is time again for the book-of-the-month suggestion threads for August 2019! 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.
Not a hard and fast rule, but please try to limit your nominations to one book per category. But please do second any that interest you! The number of seconds determine poll inclusion.
>>> Attention, please: We will be featuring page numbers in the poll, so please include page numbers in your nomination if possible.
Nominations end Midnight June 16.
Tracking: through message 76Nomination (pages) - # of Seconds
The Picture of Dorian Gray (367 p.) - 12
The Kite Runner (371 p.) - 10
Anne of Green Gables (320 p.) - 18
Pachinko (496 p.) - 4
The Joy Luck Club (288 p.) - 11
In Cold Blood (343 p.) - 6
Memoirs of a Geisha (503 p.) - 7
The Shining (447 p.) - 2
Dark Matter (342 p.) - 6
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (412 p.) - 6
Dune (687 p.) - 4
Life of Pi (460 p.) - 3
The Raven (64 p.) - 1
The Martian (369 p.) - 2
NOTE: the nominees that are bolded and italicized are the poll front-runners.
Remember, we can't nominate books we have reread as a group in the last twelve months, and those are:And Then There Were None
The Night Circus
The Handmaid's Tale
Wuthering Heights
Lord of the Flies
Fahrenheit 451
Little Women
A Christmas Carol
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Hello everyone! It is time again to start the book-of-the-month suggestion threads for August 2019! 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.
Not a hard and fast rule, but please try to limit your nominations to one book per category. But please do second any that interest you! The number of seconds determine poll inclusion.
Books featured as a group reread within the last twelve months are not eligible.
>>> Attention, please: We will be featuring page numbers in the poll, so please include page numbers in your nomination if possible.
Nominations end Midnight June 16.
May 31
Pages 279
Total Group Pages: 738,928
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Hello everyone, I wanted to give you all a quick update. We've just added Betsy as a mod officially! I'm sure you all have seen her around as she has been very active on the threads. She has offered great feedback and ideas and is always willing to do more for this group. I am very happy to have her on the moderator team going forward!
Congratulations, Betsy!
Welcome to the EVERYONE Has Read This But Me Spelling Bee discussion thread! This thread is for general discussion and questions. If you want to post a book for the challenge or read the rules, please do so HERE>>This is the first of three challenges that will take place in our Summer of Challenges! We know everyone has different schedules over the summer, so each challenge will last only one month. If you know you won't get a lot of reading done while you are on vacation in June, you can skip the Spelling Bee and join July and/or August's challenges.
>>Because we have a new team of moderators, we thought it would help to get to know us better if each mod picked a 'hidden treasure' book to start off the Spelling Bee. These are books we recommend that have under 100,000 ratings on Goodreads.
Joanna's recommendation:
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton (Classic)
Lily Bart is an aging debutante who is expected to marry well in the American Guilded Age. It is a book that might be described as the opposite of a Jane Austen novel, though exploring some of the same themes. Lily has all the outward appearance of the right attributes to succeed but there is a rebellious side to her that thwarts her goals. The House of Mirth is a tragic and heartbreaking story but a worthy read.
Tori's recommendation:
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? by Frans de Waal (Non-Fiction)
Primatologist, Franz De Waal, takes us through an eye opening history of human research into animal cognition, all the while taking a critical look at the experiments that have led us to believe that animals are not as smart as their human neighbors.
This book is packed with fun facts and extensive research into the brains of many different species. The best part is that you don't need a degree in biology to understand it, it is written in simple language which makes it accessible to a large audience. I could not put this book down. It was very interesting and I learned so much!
Catherine's recommendation:
The Black Prism by Brent Weeks (Fantasy)
"Guile is the Prism, the most powerful man in the world. He is high priest and emperor, a man whose power, wit, and charm are all that preserves a tenuous peace. Yet Prisms never last, and Guile knows exactly how long he has left to live.
When Guile discovers he has a son, born in a far kingdom after the war that put him in power, he must decide how much he's willing to pay to protect a secret that could tear his world apart."
If you're looking for a witty, dramatic, and intense fantasy series to start, I highly recommend trying out Black Prism as Brent Weeks does an amazing job of not only developing his characters, but doing so while adding wit, humour, drama, and plenty of twists and turns.
Betsy's recommendation:
Night Flying by Rita Murphy (Young Adult)
Georgia Hansen, and all the women in her family, can fly. But, this comes at a price, and one held and controlled by her grandmother. Just before she takes her first ‘solo’ flight, her ostracized Aunt Carmen comes back to town and shakes everything up about what Georgia thought she knew.
Even though this is classified as YA, the themes are universally true throughout adult life: how to deal with authority and expectations, having the courage to find your place as an individual as well as in a group, and all the subtleties that come along with love and passion in general.
The most important point for me is that the author does not patronize her readers; in no way is the story dumbed down or sanitized.
