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THE PERKS OF BEING A BOOK ADDICT - JULY NEWSLETTER
Hello Everyone,
Some of you have raised the issue of not being able to read these newsletters when broadcast as a message, so from now these newsletters will also be posted under this folder.
In the July poll we had a tie for 2nd place, so Someone Else's Shoes will be one of the July BoTMs, while
Lies and Weddings will be one of the August BoTMs. But you can still vote for the other August BoTM.
You can find the poll on the group home page or vote through the link below.
August Poll: vote here
If you want to join this month's discussions, the July Books of the Month are Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo and Someone Else's Shoes by Jojo Moyes.
Six of Crows - Six of Crows - discussion here
Someone Else's Shoes - Someone Else's Shoes - discussion here
A Bit of Housekeeping
📒 If you are new to our Group, please drop by to say hello here: introduce yourself or if you'd like to connect to other members, pop into this thread: Goodreads Friends.
Please do not create separate threads for these purposes! Also, no author self-promotion, please!
📕 Upcoming 2024 buddy reads are in this folder.
If you choose to request a buddy read in the buddy read requests thread, please be sure to come back to see if anyone has responded to your request. Please note that this folder is not for promotional purposes.
📘Links to our Challenges can be found in this folder.
📙If you have any questions concerning the challenges or proposals/requests for new challenges, you can post them here.
📗Our folders for Promotions are here Promote Anything
Happy Reading! 📚
Melinda
As Six of Crows was already BoTM in 2016, according to the Group Rules this will be the 2nd and last time it could be nominated/chosen as BoTM again. Happy reading!
Hello!Some members let me know that while they get the newsletters in messages, they are not displayed properly, so they cannot read them..
To try and circumvent this, besides broadcasting the newsletters to all members as usual, I am also going to post them here.
Hope this helps. :)
Melinda
Nominations closed.
Nominations updated to here. :)
NOMINATIONS
It's time to nominate books for our BotM in August 2023. Please nominate books that you would like to read and discuss with the group here.Rules:
➙ Please nominate only ONE book.
➙ Books do not need to be seconded.
➙ Do not nominate books that have been read as a BOTM in the past 2 years. Book list can be found on the bookshelf
➙ If a book has already been a BotM two times, it is no longer eligible to be nominated again. Ineligible books: (view spoiler)
➙ Do not nominate books that are the second or later in a series.
➙ Do not use this thread for author self-promotion.
➙ No erotica.
Additional tips -
Please use a book link, if possible. If it's not possible, please include the author's name. I want to make sure I include the correct books! You can add a synopsis from the books Goodread's page, if you like, but it is not necessary.
Directions to add a book link:
This can only be done when online and not when using an app.
When typing in the text box, on top of the box there is a link that says "add book/author". Click on that and a new box will appear. Type your book name in the space provided and click on "search". When you see your book, click the "add" button to the right of it.
To add a link that just has the book name, you can click "link" at the bottom of the "add book/author" box. The link is the automatic setting. To add a book cover, click on "cover" at the bottom left.
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The other winner of the July Book of the Month is Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano. Please discuss here and remember to use spoiler tags as needed, as everyone reads at different speeds and may start at different times.
An emotionally layered and engrossing story of a family that asks: Can love make a broken person whole?
William Waters grew up in a house silenced by tragedy, where his parents could hardly bear to look at him, much less love him. So it’s a relief when his skill on the basketball court earns him a scholarship to college, far away from his childhood home. He soon meets Julia Padavano, a spirited and ambitious young woman who surprises William with her appreciation of his quiet steadiness. With Julia comes her family; she is inseparable from her three younger sisters: Sylvie, the dreamer, is happiest with her nose in a book and imagines a future different from the expected path of wife and mother; Cecelia, the family’s artist; and Emeline, who patiently takes care of all of them. Happily, the Padavanos fold Julia’s new boyfriend into their loving, chaotic household.
But then darkness from William’s past surfaces, jeopardizing not only Julia’s carefully orchestrated plans for their future, but the sisters’ unshakeable loyalty to one another. The result is a catastrophic family rift that changes their lives for generations. Will the loyalty that once rooted them be strong enough to draw them back together when it matters most?
Vibrating with tenderness, Hello Beautiful is a gorgeous, profoundly moving portrait of what’s possible when we choose to love someone not in spite of who they are, but because of it.
Main Genres: Fiction, Contemporary, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Romance, Family
Questions under the spoiler tag to help you along.
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One of the July 2023 Book of the Month is Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister. Please discuss here and remember to use spoiler tags as needed, as everyone reads at different speeds and may start at different times.
Late October. After midnight. You're waiting up for your eighteen-year-old son. He's past curfew. As you watch from the window, he emerges, and you realize he isn't alone: he's walking toward a man, and he's armed.
You can't believe it when you see him do it: your funny, happy teenage son, he kills a stranger, right there on the street outside your house. You don't know who. You don't know why. You only know your son is now in custody, his future shattered.
That night you fall asleep in despair. All is lost.
Until you wake . . .
. . . and it is yesterday.
And then you wake again . . .
. . . and it is the day before yesterday.
Every morning you wake up a day earlier, another day before the murder. With another chance to stop it. Somewhere in the past lies an answer. The trigger for this crime--and you don't have a choice but to find it . . .
Main Genres: Mystery, Thriller, Fiction, Time Travel, Suspense, Crime, Science Fiction, Adult
Questions under the spoiler tag to help you along.
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Congrats to Ty & Zane - Winners UNO 2017!
Announcement is here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
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Team Ty & Zane
Winners of UNO 2017!!
And we need to give a special mention to Teams Ove & Jack Torrence who also completed all the mini challenges for maximum points, but due to the luck of the draw did not have the overall points to beat Ty & Zane
We hope you had a wonderful time and read lots of books and we hope to see you all back for UNO next year!
Ty & Zane Team Members:
♦ Emma White (Captain)
♦ Melissa (Co-captain)
♦ Camilla
♦ Cat
♦ Karen Shaw
♦ Sarah C.
♦ Andrea
Closing this thread as all questions should go through captains to the captains group
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We gave captains an extra 36 hours past the end of March to finalise spreadsheets, and so now we can announce the March results!Congrats to the teams who finished the March mini challenge! And Congrats to Team Ove for finishing the month in number 1 place :)
Team Name March March Mini Total Ranking
Ove 2290 434 5084 1
Ty & Zane 2270 434 5039 2
Yvaine 2260 434 5019 3
Jack Torrance 2255 434 5009 4
Bones 2250 430 5000 5
Mark Watney 2220 434 4999 6
Liesel Meminger 2245 432 4997 7
Elizabeth Bennet2305 419 4994 8
Robert Langdon 2200 427 4977 9
Rachel Watson 2230 434 4974 10
Eve Dallas 2220 353 4963 11
Augustus Waters 2150 424 4949 12
Kate Daniels 2255 427 4949 12
Ron Weasley 2275 370 4930 14
Peeta Mellark 2280 424 4921 15
Rose Hathaway 2155 419 4914 16
Mercy Thompson 2230 424 4909 17
Buttercup 2240 351 4833 18
Heathcliff 2205 334 4793 19
Becky Bloomwood 2255 261 4746 20
Hercule Poirot 2200 314 4744 21
Harry Dresden 2205 292 4696 22
Sybilla B 2100 268 4603 23
Will Traynor 1560 85 3315 24
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
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