Katrisa’s Comments (group member since Sep 16, 2018)

Katrisa’s comments from the We Read Stuff group.

I agree with you. The horrors of the broken society don't feel too over the top and I can see how it would make people more open to her new religion.

I agree with you. The horrors of the broken society don't feel too over the top and I can see how it would make people more open to her new religion.

I wanted to like this one more than I did. I just felt the story was flat. I am curious to see the show though.

D - have you read Kindred?

I’m definitely going to proceed with the series. I look forward to more explanation as to the Earthseed religion and also with the whole moving off planet aspect

A Dance with Dragons - 1016
Red Queen - 291
she would be king - 312
idaho - 320
brain on fire - 250
motorcycle diaries - 175
seraphina - 499
the handmaid's tale graphic novel - 240
locke and key vol.2 - 160
dad is fat - 275
white houses - 240
rise of the rocket girls - 338
normal people - 273
black leopard, red wolf - 620
with the fire on high - 392
a thousand splendid suns - 372
how to be a good creature - 208
the weight of feathers - 308
the girl who wrote in silk - 391
red umbrella - 284
my sister the serial killer - 226
alex and eliza - 368
the sleeper and the spindle - 72
love warrior - 272
twelve days in may - 112
parable of the sower - 332
freakonomics - 320
gathering moss - 168
terra nullius - 320
the silence of the girls - 291

Total in post = 9445

New Group Total: 210,332 + 9445 = 219,777

I just finished this book. It has been on my TBR for quite a while after I read and loved Kindred.
Here are my thoughts - I am not really sure why Lauren has to fashion change as "God". I can see forming a religion based around change as a constant, but I am not sold on the idea that that makes a God. I like the idea that we shape God as God is shaping us. I am interested enough in the story to want to continue the series though.

I nominate Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Damian Duffy


It won the Eisner

I nominate The Round House by Louise Erdrich


It won the National Book Award

I will be out of town for about a week, so I want to get this thread set up before I go. In August we will be reading award winning books. Any award will work, but here are a few award lists to get you thinking!

Eisner Award
Harvey Award
Ignatz Award
I must admit friends that I had no idea about awards for comics or graphic novels. I hope those lists help!



A Few Reminders About Nominations

- Each member may nominate one book AND may also second one book that has already been nominated.

-If you want to only nominate or only second a book without nominating anything that is fine.

- If we get more than 10 nominations then the 10 books with the most seconds will go to the poll.

- There are no minimum page counts for a book to be nominated.

- Books must be first in a series or a stand alone unless the group has already read the book in the series that came before the one being nominated.

- Nominations will close the afternoon of July 15th

Current Nominations:

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel


Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Damian Duffy


My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 1 by Emil Ferris

I will be out of town for about a week, so I want to get this thread set up before I go. In August we will be reading award winning books. Any award will work, but here are a few award lists to get you thinking! Please list the award your book won along with your nomination.

National Book Award

Scotiabank Giller Prize

Lamda Literary Award

Man Booker Prize

Hugo Award

Newberry Award

There are obviously soooooo many more awards to choose from - these are just a few that popped up in my brain first. Happy nominating!

A Few Reminders About Nominations

- Each member may nominate one book AND may also second one book that has already been nominated.

-If you want to only nominate or only second a book without nominating anything that is fine.

- If we get more than 10 nominations then the 10 books with the most seconds will go to the poll.

- There are no minimum page counts for a book to be nominated.

- Books must be first in a series or a stand alone unless the group has already read the book in the series that came before the one being nominated.

- Nominations will close the afternoon of July 15th

Current Nominations:

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin


The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal


The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón


Beloved by Toni Morrison

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The Round House by Louise Erdrich

This is the discussion for by Octavia E. Butler

In 2025, with the world descending into madness and anarchy, one woman begins a fateful journey toward a better future.

Lauren Olamina and her family live in one of the only safe neighborhoods remaining on the outskirts of Los Angeles. Behind the walls of their defended enclave, Lauren’s father, a preacher, and a handful of other citizens try to salvage what remains of a culture that has been destroyed by drugs, disease, war, and chronic water shortages. While her father tries to lead people on the righteous path, Lauren struggles with hyperempathy, a condition that makes her extraordinarily sensitive to the pain of others.

When fire destroys their compound, Lauren’s family is killed and she is forced out into a world that is fraught with danger. With a handful of other refugees, Lauren must make her way north to safety, along the way conceiving a revolutionary idea that may mean salvation for all mankind.

This is the discussion for by Philip K. Dick

It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco, the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because some twenty years earlier the United States lost a war—and is now occupied by Nazi Germany and Japan.

This harrowing, Hugo Award-winning novel is the work that established Philip K. Dick as an innovator in science fiction while breaking the barrier between science fiction and the serious novel of ideas. In it Dick offers a haunting vision of history as a nightmare from which it may just be possible to wake.

I LOVED this visual adaptation of one of my favorite books. It makes me want to check out more graphic novels of classic books.

Because there are only 2 nominations for this genre, I am not going to set up a poll. Our July reads will be
Bitch Planet, Vol. 1: Extraordinary Machine

and
Akira, Vol. 1

Great! I'll add it!

I read a couple fatty books this time!

A Feast for Crows - 1061
Kingdom of Gods - 600
Food: A Love Story - 340
The Fire Next Time - 106
The Tiger at Midnight - 484
Fire and Blood - 719
Bird Box - 262
A Knight of the 7 Kingdoms - 335
Unaccustomed Earth - 352
Being Jazz - 272
Fever Dream - 192
Storm of Locusts - 313

total this post - 5,036

Group total: 188,058 + 5,036 = 193,094

I nominate Akira, Vol. 1

There's some great choices this month! I'll be happy whatever book wins.

I'll nominate The Darkest Minds

Sonya - Allegiant is the third book in the series. For group reads we start with book 1 unless the group has already read the first book. Do you want to nominate Divergent?