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2020 Bookshelf Rereads
Diane wrote: "Dawn wrote: "Yeah, same, I’ve read three, dnf’ed one, and don’t want to read another, so that just leaves one for those three months ^_^"Which one did you DNF, Dawn?"
The Bear and the Nightingale ^_^
Allison wrote: "Voted for TC&tC, City of Bones and Cloud Atlas (although I'd already voted for Cloud Atlas so I'm afraid I wasn't much help!) :-)"Thank you! :-*
I’m bummed TC&TC fell out of the top. I need to read it to and already voted for it. LolAnyone up for a buddy read if it doesn’t make it? I’m afraid if no one else is there to motivate me I’ll never read it.
City is back in the top 6 :)edit: That's City&City, not Bones.
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City of Bones especially would be wonderful! I've read the first chapter and it was so good that I bought it right away. Mysterious, probably far future fantasy setting, cool characters, author also created Murderbot, ancient ruins under the sand... yum!I've already read a Le Guin book last year. You can't make me read another one so soon!
(Joking, I'm sure she's great, just hasn't really clicked with me personally yet. It's me, not her! *hides quickly*)
P.S. When I wrote this, it somehow looked as if 4 out of the 6 top books were Le Guin, which is why I wrote the above. Since then a lot more comments appeared. Now I see it's only 1 or 2 out of 6, so there does seem to be a good variety. :D
Dawn wrote: "Brick wrote: "Voted. I noticed The Left Hand of Darkness is number one in the running. If that one is chosen I'm really eager to dig into it! I've never read anything written by Ursula..."Awesome!!
I really hope The City and the City makes it!! If it doesn’t I’ll do a buddy read for sure!
I already voted for The City and the City, so I can't help there. If anyone is interested in Alif the Unseen, that's one I'm really hoping makes it because I own it and have been wanting to read it for a while.
Top 6 will become our rereads for April-JuneLive results in spreadsheet
VOTE HERE until February 25th
20 The Left Hand of Darkness (304)
15 Slaughterhouse-Five (215)
15 The Three-Body Problem (400)
14 American Gods (480)
14 The City & the City (312)
14 The Color of Magic (228)
14 The Dispossessed (387)
14 Fahrenheit 451 (238)
13 Alif the Unseen (433)
13 The Bear and the Nightingale (322)
13 The Girl with All the Gifts (460)
13 A Wizard of Earthsea (183)
13 The Word for World is Forest (160)
12 Cat's Cradle (179)
12 City of Bones (488)
12 Hyperion (483)
12 Ninefox Gambit (384)
12 Seveneves (881)
12 Station Eleven (336)
12 Wool (509)
11 Cloud Atlas (509)
11 Dawn (248)
11 Deathless (352)
11 The Grace of Kings (623)
11 Leviathan Wakes (561)
11 A Natural History of Dragons (334)
10 Anansi Boys (384)
10 The Day of the Triffids (228)
10 The Golem and the Jinni (486)
10 Neverwhere (370)
10 Rivers of London (Midnight Riot) (310)
10 Stranger in a Strange Land (528)
10 Uprooted (438)
10 Warbreaker (688)
I added a vote for TC&tC, I'd definitely like to read some more Mieville. I'm also putting out another plug/plea for City of Bones and The Bear and the Nightingale.
There's over 2 1/2 weeks left to vote and vote again, lots can happen in that time.
Thanks for the C&C vote, Meredith. I put an additional vote in for Bear and Nightingale. I've already read it, it is a beautiful use of Russian fairytales.
I added a few hopefully helpful votes.
Rereads starting next week:February 15th:
The Killing Moon >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Six of Crows >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Very happy The City and the City is in the running now! :-P
Would someone please kindly explain to me what the "rereads" lists are all about? What is meant by "rereads"?-thank you!!
Wetbook wrote: "Would someone please kindly explain to me what the "rereads" lists are all about? What is meant by "rereads"?"It just means that a bunch of people will be reading books that in the past have been our group’s book of the month. We vote to see which books are most likely to have more than one person interested.
sorry my re reads arent on the list. Just finished Laurell Hamilton's anita blake series, now onto Joel SHepherd's Cassandra series. Your re reads all seem to be "classic" old books or really modern ones
These are rereads from the group shelf :)
Top 6 will become our rereads for April-JuneLive results in spreadsheet
VOTE HERE until February 25th
23 The Left Hand of Darkness (304)
17 The City & the City (312)
16 American Gods (480)
16 The Dispossessed (387)
15 Slaughterhouse-Five (215)
15 The Three-Body Problem (400)
14 Alif the Unseen (433)
14 The Bear and the Nightingale (322)
14 Fahrenheit 451 (238)
14 The Girl with All the Gifts (460)
14 A Wizard of Earthsea (183)
14 The Word for World is Forest (160)
13 The Color of Magic (228)
13 The Golem and the Jinni (486)
13 Hyperion (483)
13 Station Eleven (336)
12 Cat's Cradle (179)
12 City of Bones (488)
12 Cloud Atlas (509)
12 Leviathan Wakes (561)
12 Ninefox Gambit (384)
12 Seveneves (881)
12 Wool (509)
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Rereads starting February 15th:
The Killing Moon >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Six of Crows >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Oh my! That means I’m going to be forced to read all those books I have on my shelf right away!
Anna wrote: "Wetbook wrote: "Would someone please kindly explain to me what the "rereads" lists are all about? What is meant by "rereads"?"It just means that a bunch of people will be reading books that in th..."
Okay, thanks you!!
Darn, I am reading Elantris now! I should of waited, but libraries are fickle in the timing. I am going to try and grab Six of Crows to start, though! It has such good reviews!
Top 6 will become our rereads for April-JuneLive results in spreadsheet
VOTE HERE until February 25th
23 The Left Hand of Darkness (304)
18 The City & the City (312)
17 The Dispossessed (387)
16 American Gods (480)
16 The Golem and the Jinni (486)
16 The Three-Body Problem (400)
15 Slaughterhouse-Five (215)
15 A Wizard of Earthsea (183)
14 Alif the Unseen (433)
14 The Bear and the Nightingale (322)
14 Fahrenheit 451 (238)
14 The Girl with All the Gifts (460)
14 Hyperion (483)
14 Station Eleven (336)
14 The Word for World is Forest (160)
13 Cat's Cradle (179)
13 The Color of Magic (228)
13 Ninefox Gambit (384)
Schedule for April-June:April 15th:
The Left Hand of Darkness >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Golem and the Jinni >> First impressions | Final thoughts
May 15th:
American Gods >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The Three-Body Problem >> First impressions | Final thoughts
June 15th:
The Dispossessed >> First impressions | Final thoughts
The City & the City >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Rereads starting on March 15th:Elantris >> First impressions | Final thoughts
All the Birds in the Sky >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Elantris
>> First impressions | Final thoughtsAll the Birds in the Sky >> First impressions | Final thoughts
Rereads starting tomorrow!
I'll be a day or two late for Elantris, but I'm sooooo looking forward to it.
In the current situation, a mild CW might be necessary for Elantris. Not really the same thing at all, but it does have a plague of sorts, and people being quarantined.
I'm waiting on a library hold for Elantris. I'm thinking of reading All the Birds too, but not sure yet
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Oh yes, but if someone is looking for a break from reading about quarantines, it's good to know in advance. And like I said, not at all the same thing.
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I will also be a few days late starting Elantris. I just finished Way of Kings and am now listen to Anthony’s *Without You* for something really different.
I read All the Birds last year but am looking forward to the discussion.
Amanda wrote: "I read All the Birds last year but am looking forward to the discussion."ditto here, but I have yet to start Elantris. I need to finish the Raksura series first though
Diane wrote: "Haha! People after my own heart! I run a guild on Habitica called Read Your Books and we do challenges designed to get you to read the books you already own. Last year I read 48 books that I’d owne..."I joined the Read Your Books guild. My Username there is Lett. :-) Which is yours?
I want to make sure I understand re-reads. Is this stuff that we voted on but did not make the cut? I am not understanding where the list is being pulled from.Also, will we be voting in May?
Yes, I am new to the group and just noticed the re-reads link in the email.
I know the world is on lockdown but we are still reading...
Melissa wrote: "I want to make sure I understand re-reads. Is this stuff that we voted on but did not make the cut? I am not understanding where the list is being pulled from.Also, will we be voting in May?
Yes..."
it's books the group has read before and we'll be rereading them, or in a lot of cases, reading for the first time for some of us
CBRetriever wrote: it's books the group has read before and we'll be rereading them, or in a lot of cases, reading for the first time for some of us"How do you determine that you have already read them? They were group picks from over a year ago, correct? Obviously they are things that the group has read- hence the name - but I do not understand where there is a list of everything the group has read.
Melissa wrote: "CBRetriever wrote: it's books the group has read before and we'll be rereading them, or in a lot of cases, reading for the first time for some of us"How do you determine that you have already rea..."
Anna has listed a bunch of ways you can see all of the group books: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
She also describes the process of choosing the re-reads in the first post on this thread. We vote every 3 months. The re-reads through June are listed in the second post. We'll vote again next month, and at that point the mods will re-open the form for voting, which lists all of the group books that are eligible for an official re-read. In the meantime, you're always welcome to suggest a buddy read for any of the group books!
Kaa wrote: Anna has listed a bunch of ways you can see all of the group books: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... Thank you, Kaa that is what I was looking for. I did read the first post but did not see this link.
Also, thanks for answering the question about the May vote. I saw that is when we should vote but was unsure with all that is going on in the world that we would vote. Thanks Again
Thanks CBR and Kaa for filling in while the mods had a fifteen hour snooze! (Well I did, Allison and I don't coordinate our snoozes)The first post only has a link to the bookshelf, I'll update it to add all the different ways you can see what's on the group shelf :)
Anna wrote: "Allison and I don't coordinate our snoozes."You both handle the group so well I refuse to believe this ;)
Haha! Allison was dismayed when she realized I don't sleep during Finnish night hours. I think she thought she was clever to choose a co-mod from Europe, to make sure someone was always online and awake. So she did try to coordinate snooze times, but my circadian heretic ways refuse to play along!
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