101 Books to Read Before You Die discussion

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Are the upcoming reads books we're reading next or are we voting in another poll for next months read?

Renee,

Glad you asked. There is a technical issue that I am trying to figure out and the upcoming reads listed are not our September reads. I have started a thread for September nominations. Please feel free to nominate the books you would like to read.

I think GR is having a glitch, because those books shouldn't be showing up at all and the normal ways we have of fixing it aren't working. No, those are not the upcoming reads, but as Jennifer said, please check out the September nominations threads!

I'm positive it's a glitch, actually, because if you click on "see more upcoming books" it takes you to the entire "to-read" list and those two showing just happen to be the first two on the list. I have a feeling GR is playing around with some things. Hopefully they'll have it fixed soon.

What's the children's book read for November?

The Hobbit :)

Would it make sense for the nominator of a book which is selected for a upcoming read to be expected to lead the discussion of the book? (WIthout putting any undue pressure on any individual of course)

That sounds like it may be a good idea. What do you think Alana?

I like it :) Would help take some of the load off of the moderators, for sure. It's hard sometimes when we get so busy with that whole "real life" thing. I don't know that it would be expected, per se, but not a bad idea. I don't mind setting up the discussion threads, but maybe the nominator could lead discussion and set up some questions/ideas within the threads? What do you all think?

Is this how nominations/discussions will be from now on? Have you guys decided on it yet?

We hadn't come to a specific decision, i wasn't sure what the general consensus was. Does anyone else have some thoughts to add? Think it's a good idea, or like things how they are?

Hi! I'm new and wondering where I can nominate a book for September? Tnx :)

I'm getting the thread set up this afternoon, I was a bit behind this month :)

FYI, I updated our "To-Read" list and added page numbers, for months where we're looking for something shorter or longer to read. I didn't change anything on the Children's list, as many are storybooks or pages can be misleading (i.e. huge, widely spaced fonts or pages with only a few lines on them). My computer wasn't keeping up with my fingers while I was typing, so if you find any errors, please let me know (somehow it at first showed The Poisonwood Bible having only 56 pages instead of 546!)

Also, don't forget the Member's Progress threads, if you want to track your own progress through the lists. :)

Alana wrote: "Also, don't forget the Member's Progress threads, if you want to track your own progress through the lists. :) "

As it happens, I just checked off my 40th book read from the list, Jane Eyre :)

Nice, almost halfway there! I'm done with 30 myself, but a long way to go!

I have to catch up on some of the books I missed over the Summer. Cut back my reading time a bit. Definitely want to read The Big Sleep and check out the others I missed. I tend to read more in the Fall/Winter for some reason and we've had a beautiful Summer this year here! Hardly hot at all. Only a couple days at 90 degrees. Hope you all had a great Summer too! Will check out the list for nominations.

I've been way behind in the books and am just now starting to catch back up! I just started on The Big Sleep myself and I'm enjoying it so far :)

Anyway, I'm turning this thread back over to questions, as I halfway hijacked it; we'll move our conversation back to the "chit chat" thread.

Sorry, I thought I had posted in the Chit Chat thread. Looks like it was the wrong one.

It's my fault, I hijacked it a little to begin with :)

Since I've seen this come up in a few other groups in which I take part, I added a paragraph to our "Welcome" thread about group participation just to clarify our stance on this. Trust me, nothing to worry about, I just thought I'd put it out there in case anyone was curious. Basically, I don't plan to remove anyone from the group unless you have posted something at all (whether relevant to a book discussion or otherwise) in over a year or so.

HEY i just wanted to ask about November nominations....
can you tell me more about them,plz?

What book won the poll for our February read?

Looks like Great Expectations was the winner.

Thanks

We need a March nomination thread please...

Thank you all for your patience with us the last few months. Both Jenn and I have had a lot on our plates and we appreciate everyone's help and patience! :)

Hi everyone,
I'm new to this group and just came across the Summer projects thing. It sounds interesting. I was wondering if there is anything planned like that for this year as well.

The moderators have actually been discussing that. We've got a couple of ideas that we're working on and we should have a poll up for voting soon :)

Alana wrote: "The moderators have actually been discussing that. We've got a couple of ideas that we're working on and we should have a poll up for voting soon :)"

Sounds good :)

We kind of turned the Harry Potter series into our summer project this year. I think we kind of got busy with things (I know my work life has been crazy!) so we'll start trying to plan a summer project as a group probably in January or so of 2018, so be thinking about your ideas!

How do nominations work?

Mae wrote: "How do nominations work?"

Please select unread books from our lists. Conversely we will accept nominations of award winners (Booker, Giller, Pulitzer etc.)

Under our Lists thread, we have several other prize-winning lists (although I can't promise I've marked out all the ones we've read other than our main list), but those lists certainly aren't exhaustive; if there's another critically-acclaimed list you'd like to nominate from, feel free! Just let us know the list and the book, and post in the current monthly nominations.

Hi, what are we reading for the next meeting? When is the meeting? Which platform will be used for the online meeting?

Hi, this is the exact group I was looking for to challenge each other to read the to 100 books and discuss them. It's this group active anymore?

This group has not been active in a few years. But I would be glad to read and discuss with you. I think I am the only person that still looks at this group.