2019 Bookshelf Rereads

[Anna]

Voting is closed.
These are the books we'll be rereading:

Altered Carbon
Ancillary Justice
Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
Darker Shade of Magic
Kindred
Flowers for Algernon

I will post the tentative schedule soon, and you'll all have a chance to comment on it.

[Anna]

The suggested reading schedule has been posted in the BR thread, go there to discuss it. Once it's finalized, I'll post it here.

[Anna]

January-March 2019 Reread Schedule


January 15th:
Ancillary Justice >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Altered Carbon >> First impressions | Final thoughts

February 15th:
A Darker Shade of Magic >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Kindred >> First impressions | Final thoughts

March 15th:
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Flowers for Algernon >> First impressions | Final thoughts


The schedule can always be found in Current Events and Buddy Read Recruitment (2019 thread coming soon).

The Google Form is open again, you can use it how you want, but all votes will be cleared about a week before the next round of voting starts in late January or early February.

[Jacqueline]

I can live with these :)

[Dawn F]

Yay!

[Anna]

Do you guys still want me to remind you of the starting rereads in this thread? They are also always listed in the Buddy Read schedule and Current Events.

In any case, here are our first rereads of 2019!

January 15th:
Ancillary Justice >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Altered Carbon >> First impressions | Final thoughts

[DivaDiane]

I would love the heads up, thank you, Anna!

[Melanie, the neutral party]

It’s the buddy reads thread is fine since I keep up in that thread also.

[Anna]

January 15th:
Ancillary Justice >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Altered Carbon >> First impressions | Final thoughts

[Anna]

It's time to vote for April-June rereads! You have until February 25th.

VOTE HERE

[Maggie]

I hate that it does the google password thing---they always 'protect' my account for some reason and now I am locked out. :(

[Anna]

Maggie wrote: "I hate that it does the google password thing---they always 'protect' my account for some reason and now I am locked out. :("

That sucks! I haven't had any problems with my logins, so I'm not sure I know what you mean. It has to have the email login though, so everyone doesn't vote twenty times for their faves.

[Chris]

I hardly ever have to sign in with Google. Maybe check your settings.

[Anna]

We've barely started, but here's the sitch:


City of Stairs 8
His Majesty's Dragon 8

Anubis Gates 7
City of Bones 7
Deathless 7
Golem and the Jinni 7
In the Night Garden 7
Lathe of Heaven 7
Martian Chronicles 7
Red Mars 7
Summer Tree 7
Tigana 7

Black Company 6
Black Prism 6
Canticle for Leibowitz 6
Dragonflight 6
Leviathan Wakes 6
Library at Mount Char 6
Neuromancer 6
Quantum Thief 6
Sabriel 6
Warbreaker 6
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang 6
Wild Seed 6

Alif the Unseen 5
Alphabet of Thorn 5
Day of the Triffids 5
Dispossessed 5
I, Robot 5
John Dies at the End 5
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell 5
Killing Moon 5
Last Wish 5
Lions of Al-Rassan 5
Oryx and Crake 5
Snow Queen 5
Uprooted 5
Wizard of Earthsea 5
Zoo City 5

[Anna]

Top30:


Lathe of Heaven 10

City of Stairs 9
Summer Tree 9
Wild Seed 9

Anubis Gates 8
City of Bones 8
Dragonflight 8
Embassytown 8
Forever War 8
Golem and the Jinni 8
His Majesty's Dragon 8
In the Night Garden 8
Killing Moon 8
Leviathan Wakes 8
Master and Margarita 8
Red Mars 8

Alif the Unseen 7
Black Company 7
Black Prism 7
Canticle for Leibowitz 7
Day of the Triffids 7
Deathless 7
Lions of Al-Rassan 7
Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet 7
Martian Chronicles 7
Neuromancer 7
Sabriel 7
Seveneves 7
Tigana 7
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang 7

[Anna]

Update:


Lathe of Heaven 13

Alif the Unseen 12
City of Stairs 12
Embassytown 12
Golem and the Jinni 12
Library at Mount Char 12
Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet 12
Wild Seed 12

City of Bones 11
Dragonflight 11
Forever War 11
His Majesty's Dragon 11
Killing Moon 11
Martian Chronicles 11
Neuromancer 11
Oryx and Crake 11

Anubis Gates 10
Canticle for Leibowitz 10
In the Night Garden 10
Master and Margarita 10
Red Mars 10
Station Eleven 10

Black Company 9
Dawn 9
Day of the Triffids 9
John Dies at the End 9
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell 9
Leviathan Wakes 9
Lions of Al-Rassan 9
Natural History of Dragons 9
Sabriel 9
Seveneves 9
Summer Tree 9
Uprooted 9
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang 9
Wizard of Earthsea 9

[Glynis]

I vote for Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang

[Anna]

Glynis, please go vote in the Google Form! And you can vote for as many as you want :)

VOTE HERE

[Nikki ~ The Nocturnal Bookworm]

Just got my vote in :)

[Anna]

VOTE HERE until February 25th

Top 6 will become our rereads for April-June:

Black Company 16
Lathe of Heaven 15
Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet 15
Wild Seed 15

Alif the Unseen 14
City of Stairs 14
Library at Mount Char 14
Neuromancer 14
Red Mars 14

Dragonflight 13
Embassytown 13
Forever War 13
Golem and the Jinni 13
His Majesty's Dragon 13
Killing Moon 13
Oryx and Crake 13

Canticle for Leibowitz 12
City of Bones 12
In the Night Garden 12
Martian Chronicles 12
Master and Margarita 12
Sabriel 12

Anubis Gates 11
Black Prism 11
Leviathan Wakes 11
Natural History of Dragons 11
Uprooted 11
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang 11
Wizard of Earthsea 11

[Anna]

Here are the rereads starting on February 15th:
(Thanks for the reminder, Tomislav!)

A Darker Shade of Magic >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Kindred >> First impressions | Final thoughts

[Anna]

VOTE HERE until February 25th

Top 6 will become our rereads for April-June:

Black Company 18
Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet 18
Lathe of Heaven 17
Library at Mount Char 17
Alif the Unseen 16
Red Mars 16

Canticle for Leibowitz 15
City of Stairs 15
Forever War 15
Golem and the Jinni 15
Neuromancer 15
Wild Seed 15

Dragonflight 14
Embassytown 14
Oryx and Crake 14

City of Bones 13
His Majesty's Dragon 13
Killing Moon 13
Martian Chronicles 13
Master and Margarita 13

[YouKneeK]

I think more people should vote for A Canticle for Leibowitz. I mean, who doesn’t love a book with canticles? And a guy(?) named Leibowitz is sure to be witty, so I bet somebody gives him a witty canticle which is even better than just a plain old canticle. Plus it was published in 1959, so you can cross off the 50’s for your Time Traveler challenge and count another book toward your Read All the Books challenge all in one teensy book that’s barely over 300 pages long. And for anybody who hasn’t realized this yet, you can edit your vote without losing your original vote.

Disclaimer: I know nothing whatsoever about this book (I like to go in blind), but it has the greatest chance of winning out of the books I voted for, so I’m trying to promote its imagined virtues. ;)

Embassytown and The Master and Margarita may have a chance also, so feel free to vote for them too…

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

XD

You crack me up! I will see if I voted for these things, and if not, I will vote for 2 of these things.

[YouKneeK]

LOL Allison, you’re so kind, I hope somebody gives you a canticle too. ;)

[Sarah]

I voted for them too. I like campaigning. I think we should all campaign. I also voted for Zoo City by Lauren Beukes because she’s been on my TBR for way too long.

[Anna]

Yes, I’m very happy to see reread campaigning! I can’t remember what I voted for, but I usually adjust my votes on the last day.

[Joelle.P.S]

Sarah wrote: "I voted for them too. I like campaigning. I think we should all campaign. I also voted for Zoo City by Lauren Beukes...."

Zoo City is a good one. :-)

I'm crossing my fingers for The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet. Some friends have enthused about the whole trilogy, but I haven't started it yet, so it'd be great to have a timeline & reading buddies to get that in my TBR schedule. :-)

I'm reading The Killing Moon now. It's awesome! And dense. So much going on, & I don't know where it's going next. :-)

Wild Seed is high on my to-read list too....

[YouKneeK]

I voted for Zoo City too, Sarah. :) But it was part of my original vote so the number won’t increase.

Embassytown and Canticle are both up to 16 votes now!

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

YouKneeK wrote: "LOL Allison, you’re so kind, I hope somebody gives you a canticle too. ;)"

hahahaha!

[Sarah]

Yeah I realized afterwards Zoo City is not even on the map but oh well.

[Meredith]

I added votes for a couple more books, but alas, all this activity has pushed Red Mars (the only book on the top 20 list that I own and haven't read yet) away from the top 6.

[Anna]

So much campaigning that here's an update!
Top 6 will become our rereads for April-June
VOTE HERE until February 25th

Black Company 19
Canticle for Leibowitz 19
Lathe of Heaven 18
Library at Mount Char 18
Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet 18
Red Mars 17

Alif the Unseen 16
City of Stairs 16
Embassytown 16
Golem and the Jinni 16
Neuromancer 16
Wild Seed 16

Forever War 15
His Majesty's Dragon 15
Master and Margarita 15

Dragonflight 14

Anubis Gates 13
Killing Moon 13
Leviathan Wakes 13
Martian Chronicles 13
Natural History of Dragons 13
Oryx and Crake 13
Uprooted 13
Wizard of Earthsea 13

[Becky]

I went in and voted for everything that interested me, that I do already own but hadn't already read. :)

I'm currently happy with the top 6. I've read Library At Mount Char and really liked it, and beside LWTASAP, I want to read all of the remainders. (That's not to say that I don't want to read LWTASAP, but I don't own it already. LOL)

[DivaDiane]

Red Mars is also one of 2 in the top 6 that I own, and have not read. I’ve got Red Mars on my TBR challenge list for book I’m most intimidated by, which may not sound like a good thing to say about it to campaign for votes, but it’s only because it’s so long. I interviewed Robinson a few years ago and he’s such a fascinating guy, but I have only read some of his short fiction (which is wonderful)! I’ve had this book on my TBR forever! If you haven’t voted for it yet, do it now!!! 😃

[Bobby]

It's too bad Alif the Unseen got taken out, but there's still 2 books in the top 6 I plan to read.

[Gabi]

Diane wrote: "Red Mars is also one of 2 in the top 6 that I own, and have not read. I’ve got Red Mars on my TBR challenge list for book I’m most intimidated by, which may not sound like a good thing to say about..."

I absolutely adored Red Mars! But you have to like chapter-long descriptions of landscape (which I luckily do)

ETA: my planned reads are all out of the top 6 by now. Yet 3 of the books I already read - I'm getting better with our list ;)

[Dawn F]

I voted for Alif the Unseen, I really want to read that one!

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

Alif was a really, really fun book. I didn't expect it to be as involved and emotional as it ended up being.

[Hillary]

Anna wrote: "So much campaigning that here's an update!
Top 6 will become our rereads for April-June"

Yay for campaigning, boo for City of Bones (the top ranker among my votes) falling entirely off the leaderboard. In 2018, I enjoyed reading Martha Wells' Ile-Rien fantasies and the sci fi Murderbot novellas. City of Bones is an intriguing standalone involving relic dealers in a city by the Waste.

[YouKneeK]

Woo hoo, look at A Canticle for Leibowitz up there at the top! I’m happy to see some love being shown for canticle distribution. It’s the only one of my votes currently in the top 6, but none of my votes won in the last round so I’d be thrilled if even one did this time. :)

I had mixed feelings on Red Mars. There were some things I really liked, and some things I really didn’t like. I liked Alif pretty well. I was kinda lukewarm on Library at Mount Char. I’ll enjoy following the discussions if those win.

[Meredith]

[Oprah voice} You get a canticle! And you get a canticle!

[Dawn F]

What the hell *is* a canticle? (Don’t make me google it XD)

[YouKneeK]

LOL Meredith.

Dawn, I believe it’s a religious hymn. Either that or a candle with tentacles.

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

LOL friends!

Dawn I think it's a song, for, like religious things, right? Cantors cant canticles?

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

YouKneeK wrote: "LOL Meredith.

Dawn, I believe it’s a religious hymn. Either that or a candle with tentacles."

DED.

[Chris]

Nothing for me in the top 6 at the moment. I'm hoping that City of Stairs gets a bump up.

[Anna]

YouKneeK wrote: "candle with tentacles."

It's official now, I love you!

[YouKneeK]

LOL Anna! :)

[Gabi]

Dawn wrote: "What the hell *is* a canticle? (Don’t make me google it XD)"

^^' I had to google it ...