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.

April 8
288 pages

Total Group Pages: 525,454

One of our nominations, Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, has a very similar name to another popular book, The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells.

We have been getting seconds for both titles and I didn't want anyone to be confused about what book they were seconding. So, if you did mean for your vote to go towards The Invisible Man , please let me know!

Christine wrote: "I'd like to add The Ocean at the End of the Lane, by Neil Gaiman.

Melissa wrote: "Nominate - Where'd You Go, Bernadette?

We have not read The Ocean at the End of the Lane or Where'd you go Bernadette? as a group yet. Feel free to nominate them over Here

Just wanted to hop in and say I have enjoyed moderating and would love to continue!

I am very excited to see someone has an interest in moderating, thanks Catherine! Sorry you had problems messaging Joanna, I'm sure she will get back to you soon.

I nominate Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides 529 pages

Tracking: through message 58

Nomination (pages) - # of Seconds
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster (368 p.) - 4
Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World (277 p.) - 1
Where the Crawdads Sing (370 p.) - 6
Middlesex (529 p.) - 1
Cutting for Stone (541 p.) - 1
Americanah (588 p.) - 11
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (272 p.) - 11
Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald (371 p.) - 1
The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band (431 p.)
All the Ugly and Wonderful Things (346 p.)
Circe (393 p.) - 15
Gods Behaving Badly (270 p.) - 1
Watership Down (478 p.) - 9
Beloved (324 p.) - 1
Next Year in Havana (361 p.) - 2
A Game of Thrones (848 p.) - 2
Wild Seed (306 p.) - 3
Gone Girl (415 p.) - 5
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (320 p.) - 1
Kindred (287 p.) - 1
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August (417 p.) - 2



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 June 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 April 16.

Tracking: through message 64

Nomination (pages) - # of Seconds
Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder (351 p.) - 4
Siddharta (152 p.) - 9
The Frolic of the Beasts (166 p.) - 2
Invisible Man Ralph Ellison (581 p.) - 8
A Study in Scarlet (123 p.) - 12
The Three Musketeers (625 p.) - 8
The Jungle (335 p.) - 3
Night (120 p.) - 8
The Enchanted April (232 p.) - 4
Silent Spring (378 p.) - 5
Les Misérables (1463 p.) - 4
Lolita (417 p.) - 3
The Master and Margarita (373 p.) - 8
Stranger in a Strange Land (528 p.) - 2
Don Quixote (863 p.) - 2
East of Eden (720 p.) - 1
The Grapes of Wrath (479 p.) - 2

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 June 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 April 16.

Tracking: through message 65

Nomination (pages) - # of Seconds
The Night Circus (387 p.) - 11
Frankenstein (166 p.) - 15
Dark Matter (342 p.) - 5
Memoirs of a Geisha (503 p.) - 4
Dune (604 p.) - 9
I Am a Cat (480 p.) - 4
The Jungle Book (277 p.) - 9
One Hundred Years of Solitude (417 p.) - 9
Anna Karenina (964 p.) - 1
American Gods (635 p.) - 6
The Sun Also Rises (189 p.) - 3
Never Let Me Go (288 p.) - 3
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine (336 p.) - 6
The Bell Jar (288 p.) - 2
A Tale of Two Cities (489 p.) - 1

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:

The Handmaid's Tale
Wuthering Heights
Lord of the Flies
Fahrenheit 451
Little Women
A Christmas Carol
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
A Man Called Ove

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

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 April 16.

Group Total checked to this point!

Total Group Pages: 496,944

April 1
240 pages

Total Group Pages: 496,944

I just got a copy from the library, so I can start it today! I have also wanted to read this for awhile now.

I've seen the movie a few times, but I've never read the book, so I'm really excited to read it with all of you this month!

March 25
250 pages


March 27
390 pages

Group Total Pages: 480,864

We got off by a few pages

Correct Total Group Pages: 458,070

Total group pages checked!

453,649

March 19
288 pages

Total Group Pages: 453,649