Fall 2017 Group Read Polls

[Dlmrose, Moderator Emeritus]

The polls for the Fall 2017 Group Reads are open.
Click on "Comments & Details" below the book list to get to the "This poll is about" book links.

You may vote until the end of the Goodreads day on August 14.

[Dlmrose, Moderator Emeritus]

Just a reminder- get your chance to vote for the Fall Group Reads. The polls close tonight.

[Dlmrose, Moderator Emeritus]

Our Fall Group Reads have been chosen:

Fiction Set in a Member State of the Arab League - Death on the Nile

Fiction - Poetry - The Aeneid

Non-Fiction - Climate and Weather - The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

[Bea]

The Aeneid for both fiction and non-fiction???

[Trish]

Darn it. I only just read Death on the Nile for the Spring challenge! :-)

[Dlmrose, Moderator Emeritus]

Bea wrote: "The Aeneid for both fiction and non-fiction???"

copy error

[Shanna_redwind]

Trish wrote: "Darn it. I only just read Death on the Nile for the Spring challenge! :-)"

Me too.

[Diana]

Trish wrote: "Darn it. I only just read Death on the Nile for the Spring challenge! :-)"

Me too!

[Jayme(theghostreader)]

Death on the Nile will be a re read for me.

[Justme]

Missed the poll...sigh.

[Lauren]

Jayme(the ghost reader) wrote: "Death on the Nile will be a re read for me."

Me too! But I don't mind. It's a great book.

[Dee]

bets on how many of the 22 people who voted for the Aeneid actually read it? lol!

[Book Concierge]

Dee wrote: "bets on how many of the 22 people who voted for the Aeneid actually read it? lol!"

I read it ... in Latin ... when in high school. Once was enough ....

[Cat]

@bookconcierge - wow! the whole thing?! I suffered through part of Book IV in Latin, can't imagine what sort of sadists would make teens read the whole thing!

[Dee]

wow, BC...kudos to you!

i'll admit to debating read it (but I didn't vote for it)...I found one of the great courses at my library based on it (12 lectures of 30min each) - so I'm going to do that at the same time I think

[Book Concierge]

Cat wrote: "@bookconcierge - wow! the whole thing?! I suffered through part of Book IV in Latin, can't imagine what sort of sadists would make teens read the whole thing!"

I took four years of Latin (and a year of ancient Greek) in high school. I was a weird kid ...

I liked Ovid's Metamorphosis. better.

[Cat]

I did 5 yrs I think - took GCSE in it. I'd've considered doing Latin for my A-level, but I think that the Aeneid Book IV helped kill that idea - Aeneas was SUCH a prick to Dido in the book, I couldn't bear it!

As for ancient Greek - it clashed with an English course I did, so no go there.

[Marie (UK)]

I cant think of anything worse than the Aeneid but luckily the other 2 options look interesting. That is the beauty of this something for everyone