For December 2022 - Bookshelf Catch-Up

[Tori]

Hi all! Starting up the book-of-the-month suggestions for December 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 BookshelfHERE .

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 October 16.

[Tori]

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

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
A Gentleman in Moscow
A Clockwork Orange
The Silent Patient
The Book Thief
Lord of the Flies
Circe
Emma
The Midnight Library
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Dune

[Tori]

Tracking through message: 30
⭐ Poll Candidate

Nomination (# of pages) - # of Seconds
⭐Life of Pi (319p) - 4
The Thirteenth Tale (406p) - 2
The Diary of a Young Girl (283p) - 3
The Gift of the Magi (26p) - 1
The Hate You Give (444p) - 2
⭐The Handmaid's Tale (314p) - 7
⭐The Bell Jar (294p) - 7
Little Women - 2
⭐Peter Pan (176p) - 6
I Am a Cat (218p)

[Toni]

I’d like to nominate Life of Pi by Yang Martel (pg 319)

[Kimberly]

I nominate The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield. Last read 12/2018. First published 2006. 406 pages

[Quinty (Taylor's Version)]

I nominate The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank, 283 pages

[Cynthia]

In the spirit of the season, I nominate The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry (26 pages)

[Adrienne]

I nominate The Hate You Give by Angie Thomas

[Quinty (Taylor's Version)]

I second The Hate You Give

[Renata]

I nominate The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, 314 pages. (Recently banned in some US states).

I also second Life of Pi.

[Rebecca is book-hooked]

I nominate The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (294 pages)

I second:
Life of Pi
Diary of a Young Girl

[adele]

I second Life of Pi and The Bell Jar and nominate Little Women

[Quinty (Taylor's Version)]

I second The Handmaid's Tale and Little Women

[Lena]

I second the bell jar and the handmaid’s tale

[Andi]

I second:
Gift of the Magi
Diary of a Young Girl
Handmaid's Tale

[Andi]

I nominate Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie, 176 pages, last read 11/16.

[Samantha]

I second The Bell Jar and Peter Pan

[Quinty (Taylor's Version)]

I second Peter Pan

[Shaina]

I second The Handmaid's Tale, Peter Pan and The Hate You Give

[Cynthia]

I second The Handmaid's Tale, Peter Pan, and The Bell Jar

[Suzy]

I second Peter Pan, The Bell Jar and The Handmaids Tale

[Christy]

I nominate I am a Cat:I (218 pg.)

[Kathy]

I second The Bell Jar and Peter Pan

[Wobbley]

I second The Thirteenth Tale, The Diary of a Young Girl, and Little Women

[Robin]

I second The Diary of a Young Girl.

[Pamela]

I second The Handmaid's Tale

[Stephanie]

Hand maids tale

[JoJo_theDodo]

I second Life of Pi

[Tiffany]

I second thirteenth tale

[Kimberly]

I second The Bell Jar