July 2021 - Bookshelf Catch-Up

[Renata]

Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for July 2021 in the BOOKSHELF CATCH-UP category. Top 4 will be selected for the poll.

For this category, you can nominate any book that the group has previously read. For a list of books that the group has previously read and discussed, please see the Bookshelf HERE.

Books featured as a group reread within the last twelve months are not eligible. See Message 2 below.

Only one nomination is allowed per person, per category. If you nominate more than one book only your first nomination will be added toward the tracking post. Please continue to second as many nominations that interest you!

Page numbers are now required for every nomination. To find out how many pages a book has; go to the book's page on Goodreads. look under the section titled "GET A COPY" and above the book's ISBN number.

Nominations end Midnight May 16.

[Renata]

These books have been re-read within the last 12 months and are ineligible to be nominated:

Pride and Prejudice
Catch-22
The Bell Jar
1984
The Night Circus
Rebecca
A Christmas Carol
All the Light We Cannot See
The Haunting of Hill House
Dune
The Hate U Give
The Fellowship of the Ring

[Renata]

Tracking through message: 63
⭐ Poll Candidate

Nomination (# of pages) - # of Seconds
⭐The Shining (659) - 6
⭐The Martian (384) - 6
⭐Pachinko (512) - 16
The Sun Also Rises (189) - 1
⭐Beloved (324) - 7
A Wrinkle in Time (218) - 2
⭐The Kite Runner (371) - 14
To Kill a Mockingbird (324) - 5
Life of Pi (460) - 2
Anne of Green Gables (320) - 1
The Jungle Book (277) - 1
The Diary of a Young Girl (283) - 1

[Ellie-May]

I nominate The Shining by Stephen King (659 pages)

[Christy]

I nominate The Martian by Andy Weir (384 pages).

[Laura H L]

i nominate Pachinko 512 p

[Manny]

I second The Martian

[Sage]

I nominate The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (189 pages), last read in May 2017.

[spoko]

I nominate Beloved by Toni Morrison (324 pages), last read January 2020.

I second Pachinko.

[Christy]

I second Pachinko

[Shaina]

I second Pachinko

[Ali]

I second Pachinko

[Marissa]

i second The Shining!

[Lindsey]

I nominate A Wrinkle in Time (218p)

[Renata]

I nominate The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (371 pages), last read in 2016.

[Adrienne]

I second the kite runner

[Pamela]

I second Pachinko

[Katie]

I second A Wrinkle in Time.

[spoko]

I second The Kite Runner.

[Melissa]

I second The Kite Runner

[Jennifer]

I second Pachinko, Wrinkle in Time

[Edmund]

I second The Shining and Beloved.

[Kim]

I second Pachinko.

[Capricious_Reads]

I nominate, The Kite Runner

[Capricious_Reads]

I second, The Shinning

[Ellie-May]

I second Pachinko, The Martian and The Kite Runner.

[Emelia]

I second the shining!

[superawesomekt]

I second Pachinko and The Kite Runner

[Milli]

I second Pachinko and Beloved

[aliciav]

I nominate To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, 324 pp.

[Kimberly]

I'll second The Martian.

[Nike]

I nominate Life of Pi by Yann Martel. 460 pages

[Robin]

I second The Sun Also Rises and To Kill a Mockingbird.

[Sophie]

I second Pachinko.

[Sage]

I second To Kill a Mockingbird.

[Lindsay]

I nominate Anne of Green Gables

[Lindsey]

I second Anne of Green Gables

[Alexis]

I second The Martian.

[Christy]

I second The Martian and Pachinko

[Christy]

I nominate I am a Cat book 1 by Natsumi Soseki (212 pg.)

[Renata]

Christy wrote: "I second The Martian and Pachinko"

Hi Christy! Since you nominated The Martian, I'll remove your second of this book. Thanks for the nomination though.
Also, we allow only one nomination per month, so I'll delete I am a Cat, but you can nominate it next month.
I see you have seconded Pachinko twice, so I'll remove that too.

[Linda]

I second Pachinko, The Kite Runner, and The Life of Pi

[Jessica]

I second Beloved

[Stuti]

I second The Kite Runner

[Tiffany]

i second the martian

[Skittles]

I second The Kite Runner.

[Paddy]

I’ll second
beloved
The kite runner
To kill a mocking bird

[Renata]

I second The Kite Runner.

[Chuck]

I second Beloved.

[Jennifer]

I nominate The Jungle Book

I second Pachinko