For May 2022 - Bookshelf Catch-Up

[Renata]

Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for May 2022 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 March 16.

[Renata]

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

Emma
The Midnight Library
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Dune
Jane Eyre
Wuthering Heights
Frankenstein
Lolita
Anne of Green Gables
The Kite Runner
Pride and Prejudice

[Renata]

Tracking through message: 58
⭐ Poll Candidate

Nomination (# of pages) - # of Seconds

⭐Slaughterhouse-Five (275p) - 10
⭐Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (208p) - 11
Ready Player One (374p) - 3
Gone Girl (415p) - 1
Peter Pan (176p) - 5
Of Mice and Men (112p) - 1
Memoirs of a Geisha (503p) - 2
⭐Circe (393p) - 9
⭐The Martian (384p) - 10
The Neverending Story (396p) - 4
Dark Matter (340p) - 4
The Picture of Dorian Gray (272p) - 1
The Diary of a Young Girl (283p) - 4
The Jungle Book (277p) - 2

[Renata]

I nominate Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., 275 pages. (Last read in 2019)

[Kimberly]

I nominate Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson. 208 pages. Last read 3/2018.

[Ajay]

I second Slaughterhouse-Five and Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

[Sage]

I second Slaughterhouse-Five.

[JoJo_theDodo]

I second Slaughterhouse-Five

[Quinty (Taylor's Version)]

I nominate Ready Player One by Ernest Cline, 374 pages (last read in 2018)

[[deleted user]]

I nominate Gone Girl (415 pages, last read November 2019)

[spoko]

I second Slaughterhouse Five.

[Quinty (Taylor's Version)]

I second Gone Girl

[Renata]

I second Astrophysics.

[Diana]

I nominate Peter Pan, by J.M. Barrie, 176 pages

[Craig]

I nominate Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck 112 pages. I second Peter Pan

[Laura H L]

i nominate Memoirs of a Geisha 503 pages

[María]

I second Slaughterhouse-five

[Shaina]

I second Peter Pan

[adele]

I second Slaughterhouse-Five and nominate Circe

[Lindsay]

I second Peter Pan

[Jeremy]

I second Slaughterhouse Five & Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

[Jeremy]

I nominate The Martian by Andy Weir (384 pages), read only once in December 2016.

[Andi]

I second Slaughterhouse Five

[Andi]

I second The Martian

[Andi]

I second Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

[Débora]

I nominate The Neverending Story (396 pages)

[Andi]

I nominate Dark Matter by Blake Crouch, 340 pages last read 12/2017

[adele]

I second the Martian and The Neverending Story

[Renata]

I second Circe and The Martian.

[Anjali]

I second Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

[Armin]

I second Slaughterhouse-Five

[Lena]

I second Circe.

[LittleRedRidingHood]

I second Astrophysics for People in a Hurry and Dark Matter.

[Mary-Faith]

I nominate The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (272 pgs)

[Rae]

I second The Martian.

[Adrienne]

I second Memoirs of a Geisha and Astrophysics.

[Kylie]

I nominate The Diary of a Young Girl (283 pages)

[Quinty (Taylor's Version)]

I second The Diary of a Young Girl

[Stacey]

I second The Martian, Dark Matter, and Memoirs of a Geisha.

[Kyra]

I second Peter Pan.

[Sofia]

I second Circe and The Picture of Dorian Gray

[Christy]

I nominate the jungle book (277 pg)

[Christy]

I second Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, Peter Pan, Circle, The Martian, The Neverending story, Dark Matter

[Linda]

I second Circe and The Jungle Book

[Mary-Faith]

I second The Diary of a Young Girl and Peter Pan.

[Quinty (Taylor's Version)]

I second Circe

[Daisy]

I second Of Mice and Men

[Susan]

I second Circe

[Toni]

I second Ready Player One

[Robin]

I second Diary of a Young Girl and Astrophysics for People in a Hurry.