05 - A book with at least one million ratings on Goodreads

[poshpenny]

If it helps anyone, Gone with the Wind is about 150 from joining the club

[Maren]

Was already planning on reading Gone Girl and then realized it fits this prompt. Pretty serendipitous.

[Teri]

Twilight was hugely popular in my neck of the woods, and not just with teenage girls. My mother was obsessed, as was most of my coworkers and nieces and many friends. It was all they could talk about for years, it seemed. I'm not a big fan of romance novels, but I read the first book just to see what the fuss was. I disliked it immensely. The writing was poor and there were aspects that I found disturbing. Why is a guy breaking into a house to watch a girl sleep romantic? It's criminal stalking behavior after all. And the whole Edward being cold to the touch sounds terrible. It would be like making love to a popsicle. And on and on. I tried to keep my opinions to myself because everyone was so excited about the series, and I felt like I was the only one not getting it. I finally had to let my favorite niece down gently as she kept sending me pictures and things about Twilight and I couldn't take it anymore.

[Teri]

poshpenny wrote: "If it helps anyone, Gone with the Wind is about 150 from joining the club"

I'm stunned that it hasn't made it yet. Maybe because everyone read it so long ago and they haven't rated it?

EDIT: Just checked to make sure I had rated it, and it has now made it over a million.

[Tropes_and_Taboo]

I finished The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks - at time of reading, goodreads had 1,198,500 or so ratings

[Nevada]

In case anyone's interested, The Secret Life of Bees has crossed the 1M threshold.

[poshpenny]

Looking for Alaska has passed the mark.

These are getting close:
992,073 - The Shining
986,150 - My Sister's Keeper
975,125 - Me Before You
953,330 - A Wrinkle in Time

*Grabs straw hat and cane, adopts old timey carnival barker voice*
Will these little beauties get enough reads by the end of the year? Can they cross the finish line in time for you to count them for your challenge? Place your bets! Place your bets!

[Johanne]

lol Poshpenny! :)

[Jessica-sim]

mannn, I thought I would automatically run into books with over 1 million ratings but nope. Then I opened this thread and excitedly found the tip of sorting your TBR list ... NO books with 1 million ratings. Sigh
Might have to finally go for The Fault in our stars, it feels like a book that you should have read by now anyway

[L Y N N]

Jessica wrote: "mannn, I thought I would automatically run into books with over 1 million ratings but nope. Then I opened this thread and excitedly found the tip of sorting your TBR list ... NO books with 1 millio..."

I can highly recommend The Fault in Our Stars! One of my all-time favorite reads!

[Brandy]

I've read almost everything on this list. I haven't read fault in our stars but I've seen the movie. I haven't read Memoirs of a Geisha. I haven't read The Kite Runner but I DNFed A Thousand Splendid Sons. I am not sure if I've read Where The Sidewalk Ends. IT feel like something I should have had as a kid, but I don't clearly remember having it. The Giving Tree is my least favorite book ever written and I've been irrationally angry about it since the first time my mother read it to me when I was four.

[Teri]

Brandy wrote: "I've read almost everything on this list. I haven't read fault in our stars but I've seen the movie. I haven't read Memoirs of a Geisha. I haven't read The Kite Runner but I DNFed A Thousand Splendid Sons. I am not sure if I've read Where The Sidewalk Ends. IT feel like something I should have had as a kid, but I don't clearly remember having it. The Giving Tree is my least favorite book ever written and I've been irrationally angry about it since the first time my mother read it to me when I was four."

I really liked Memoirs of a Geisha. It was so outside my experience. And The Fault in Our Stars is a favorite. If you liked the movie, you'll like the book. I felt the same way about Where the Sidewalk Ends. It seemed like I should have read it many years ago, but I picked it up last year and it felt new to me. I'm sure I read The Giving Tree sometime, but I read it a couple of years ago and was a bit annoyed by the message. But if I did read it earlier, it isn't a message that would have bugged me at the time as I was not yet enlightened. haha

[Christea]

Teri wrote: "Brandy wrote: "I've read almost everything on this list. I haven't read fault in our stars but I've seen the movie. I haven't read Memoirs of a Geisha. I haven't read The Kite Runner but I DNFed A ..."
Same for me, it was so descriptive. I read it as a new release and still remember it so fondly and remember not wanting it to end. What a wonderfully written story.

[Brandy]

Thanks! I'm totally going for Geisha which I honesty think I probably have on a bookshelf somewhere, but my library certainly has! Bonus.

[Jessica-sim]

Brandy wrote: "Thanks! I'm totally going for Geisha which I honesty think I probably have on a bookshelf somewhere, but my library certainly has! Bonus."

I enjoyed reading Geisha last year, much more than I expected actually! Still have beautiful scenery pictures of it in my mind's eye :-)

[Britany]

I'm literally reading Geisha right now for this prompt... so fun to see these comments ;)

[Britany]

Finished Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

My Review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Joana]

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

[Jessica-sim]

In the end I went with the divergent series (Veronica Roth) ending up with 3 (of course once started I had to finish the trilogy) books with over a million ratings. How things change ;-). I will use the fault in our stars for the astrology task (nr 33).

[poshpenny]

Welcome to the club, The Shining

[Brandy]

Geisha is complete. I wasn't as enthralled by it as other people. It was certainly interesting at times when talking about the customs and the fashions etc. But the characters in this book felt pretty flat to me. I'm not sorry I read it, but I can't say I'd recommend it either.

[SadieReadsAgain]

I went for Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert. As a woman at the start of her own divorce journey, I was looking to this book for...something. Guidance, identification, reassurance? I don't know. I didn't get any of it though. Gilbert is just a very different person to me, with a very different life to me. She initiated her divorce because she had become bored with her relationship and realised too late that she didn't want what the path she was following was offering her. Mine is due to a heart crushing betrayal - the path I was quite happily following has been decimated by an IED. Unlike Gilbert I am not wealthy, or free of responsibilities. I'm not in a position to spend a year indulging myself with travel and escape, buying expensive underwear and being able to shrug off (or look better for) a 25lb weight gain. But I didn't let our differences stop me enjoying this book. Yes, I often found myself rolling my eyes at her lack of awareness of own privilege or feeling bad about myself because I'm not as successful/slim/spiritual as her, but equally I also found myself crying with her in her moments of clarity and reflection.

If you clear out all that space in your mind that you're using right now to obsess about this guy, you'll have a vacuum there, an open spot - a doorway. And guess what the universe will do with that doorway? It will rush in - God will rush in - and fill you with more love than you ever dreamed. So stop using David to block that door. Let it go.

It helps that the man who broke my heart is also called David...

None of us asks to be unhappy, and how we heal ourselves will always be a product of the resources we have available. She has money and freedom, I have gin and junk food. Hers makes for undoubtedly a more interesting story. And no matter what you think of her and her life, she is a good writer - funny, warm and with the ability to weave narrative and fact together in a way which seems light but imparts a lot. It was worth wading through the unobtainable parts for the gutpunches which totally sum up my own story.

I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume that everyone is emotionally capable of reaching his highest potential. I have fallen in love more times than I care to count with the highest potential of a man, rather than with the man himself, and I have hung on to the relationship for a long time (sometimes far too long) waiting for the man to ascend to his own greatness. Many times in romance I have been a victim of my own optimism.

[Teri]

Sarah wrote: "I went for Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert. As a woman at the start of her own divorce journey, I was looking to this book for...something. Guidance, identification..."

I read this book when I was going through a breakup of sorts, but it was with religion and not with a man. Along with other books and people and experiences that came into my life at that time, Eat, Pray, Love gave me the courage to follow my heart and do what was best for me, in spite of other people's expectations. I will always love it for that.