Hey! Sorry this is a day late - I'm bad about these sorts of things. I don't know how many of you read the book, but for those that did - questions are here! =)

1. At the beginning, Eduardo wonders if he’s done Matt a favor in not blunting his intelligence. Consider if the book had ended with Matt’s failure to escape from Opium. He is caught and ( Read more... )

 So I have been selected not to choose the book for July! I'm not sure what people have read, so if it's more than just a few people that have read this, please let me know and I will find another one! But I was thinking about the House of the Scorpion, by Nancy Farmer. I know it's fairly well-known, which is why I worry that people may have read ( Read more... )

I now present: the much-belated discussion post for The Book of Lost Things. Many apologies for the delay!

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I would like to thank owlmoose and her hat for choosing me to pick the book that we will not be reading for May.

I would like to suggest that we not read JG Ballard's Empire of the SunIt's a mostly autobiographical novel about World War II and is set in Shanghai, and my sister really likes the book. Her tastes and mine don't really match up all that well ( Read more... )

So three people were eligible to choose the next book that we aren't going to read: bottle_of_shine, cyrnelle, and dior_anghel. By the thoroughly scientific method of pulling names from a hat, I have chosen the next book selector and it is...

cyrnelle!

Congratulations. ;)

I hope to have a discussion post for The Book of Lost Things up tomorrow! Sorry for the delay.

Well kids, we're a few days into May and the discussion post for The Book of Lost Things will be up on Wednesday or so. But before then, we need to start thinking about who chooses the next book we aren't going to read. So, to that end, a progress poll:

Poll

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I am procrastinating on the following things: reading, writing, book discussions, vacuuming, and laundry by hosting this reading challenge!

I keep talking about recommendation lists but finally, I have taken Matters into my own hands. Now I have a plan to suck everyone else in! EXCELLENT.

(See you there? OR NOT. EITHER WAY IS FINE.)

We haven't had a Sunday challenge in awhile, so we will pretend that Wednesday is actually Sunday and have one now! This will be in the form of recommendations! Everyone loves recommendations (...or maybe they don't but the whole concept of not gives me hives).

Murder mysteries that are good. I am not a big fan of people dying (this doesn't ( Read more... )

I would like to thank bottle_of_shine's friendlist for choosing me to pick the book that we aren't going to read in April, even though they didn't realize that was what they were doing.

My selection, which you should totally feel free to ignore since this isn't a book club, is:

The Book of Lost Things by John ConnollyBecause "fairy-tale retelling" is the same ( Read more... )