Challenge 22: Book Club - Challenge Yourself!

[blue_sunflowers]

Comments

Questions?

[blue_sunflowers]

RE: Questions?

[wagrobanite]

I have a question about "Childhood favorite"... how is that supposed to work if you're looking for books we've never read?

Re: Questions?

[blue_sunflowers]

Someone else's childhood favorite. Eg "my favorite book as a kid was..."

Does that help?

RE: Re: Questions?

[wagrobanite]

Not really because how am I supposed to know what other people's favorites are? But It's okay because I did mine without.

Submit Here

[blue_sunflowers]

RE: Submit Here

[wagrobanite]

Link to my list: https://cards-wild.livejournal.com/79625.html?thread=8579849#t8579849

My comments:
1. https://cards-wild.livejournal.com/79625.html?thread=8594441#t8594441
2. https://cards-wild.livejournal.com/79625.html?thread=8620041#t8620041
3. https://cards-wild.livejournal.com/79625.html?thread=8620297#t8620297
4. https://cards-wild.livejournal.com/79625.html?thread=8622857#t8622857
5. https://cards-wild.livejournal.com/79625.html?thread=8646665#t8646665

RE: Submit Here

[catko]

Link to my list:
10 books - 50 pts
8 were new to me! - 15 pts

My comments:
1. wagrobanite
2. sidhe
3. blue
4. sera
5. tarlanx

RE: Submit Here

[sidhe_faerie]

Link to my list:https://cards-wild.livejournal.com/79625.html?thread=8607241#t8607241

My comments:
1. https://cards-wild.livejournal.com/79625.html?thread=8593929#t8593929
2. https://cards-wild.livejournal.com/79625.html?thread=8593673#t8593673
3. https://cards-wild.livejournal.com/79625.html?edit=8622345#body
4. https://cards-wild.livejournal.com/79625.html?thread=8622601#t8622601
5. https://cards-wild.livejournal.com/79625.html?edit=8646409#body

[wagrobanite]

My To Be Read list is super long so I could probably do this list multiple times :) All of these books, I've only read the synopsis on goodreads, nothing else

[sidhe_faerie]

I havent read Brideshead Revisited before either. I was surprised how many books on the banned list I have read.

[wagrobanite]

That one was pretty tough for me because as a librarian I've read a lot of them but I wanted to highlight that because I'm pretty against banning books :)

[seraphina_snape]

The Sleepwalkers is going on my TBR list! Sounds so interesting - a nice mix of murder and history.

[catko]

1. Topic A Memoir
Book Title Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay
Link to Review

2. Topic A Self Help book
Book Title Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book by Walker Percy
Link to Review

3. Topic A Romance
Book Title The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty (Sleeping Beauty #1) by A.N. Roquelaure, Anne Rice
Link to Review

4. Topic A One Word Title
Book Title Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Link to Review

5. Topic Crime Novel
Book Title Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder (Hannah Swensen, #1)
Link to Review

6. Topic Fantasy/Sci fi
Book Title Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan
Link to Review

7. Topic Female author
Book Title Dawn (Xenogenesis #1) by Octavia E. Butler
Link to Review

8. Topic Blue Cover
Book Title Far Away by Lisa Graff
Link to Review

9. Topic Children’s novel
Book Title A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood: The Poetry of Mister Rogers by Fred Rogers
Link to Review

10. Topic A Recommendation
Book Title The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Link to Review

I found this cool list -- The Soulsister 'Must Read Before

[sidhe_faerie]

Id like to reread Frankenstein. Its been a while.

Oh! Mr. Rogers! I have to look that one up. I have a soft spot in my heart for him.

[catko]

I know, who knew about the Mr. Rogers one. And I never did read Frankenstein; I feel I should.

[wagrobanite]

I don't get the hype around The Hate U Give... It was okay but I didn't find it spectacular

[sidhe_faerie]

All but 2 were unknown to me although I did recognize some of the authors names

[blue_sunflowers]

"Gone With the Wind" was such a sweeping story. I watched the movie with my parents when I was a kid, and the richness of the characters and plotlines was pretty overwhelming for a historical piece. I thought I understood the South's reasoning better after viewing it (although no, I didn't agree with it). The rich kinda remind me of the rich of the Capitol in the Hunger Games books.

Did read "Scarlett". Do not recommend.

[wagrobanite]

Postmortem by Patricia Cornwell is a great book (and the early books in the series are really good... they kind of get worse as you move forward).

The Kathy Reichs is also really good but if you read it and you've watched Bones, don't expect to be like the show, it's better :)

[seraphina_snape]

The only one of them that I've read is Kathy Reichs' Deja Dead - it's been at least fifteen years though (possibly longer), so the details escape me. I do remember that I enjoyed the book. *g*