Book Loving Kiwis discussion

We're gonna kick off the New Year with a BANG because Book Pool is back! For one month only! You've gotta be in it to win it.

If you've never played, here are the rules:

1. When you sign up pick 3 books you want to be included in the "book pool."

2. You can pick any book as long as they have been released before the challenge has started. Please no duplicates.

3. Once the challenge starts you will read books from the "pool."

4. At the end of the month whoever read the most books from the pool is the champion!

Have fun!

The challenge begins on January 1st.
To claim points, please don't start your books from the pool until then!

You can sign up and add books until December 31st. You can join the Challenge after this date, but you will not be able to add books to the pool.

BOOK POOL




BOOK POOL TITLES

Turtles All the Way Down Wildflower The Universe Has Your Back: Transform Fear to Faith The Penelopiad Potiki The Crossing Places Frankenstein Beck The Godwits Fly Blindsight Tu The Penguin History of New Zealand Dear Charlie I Wrote This For You: Just the Words Afakasi Speaks Astrophysics for People in a Hurry Nothing Bad Happens Here The Complete Persepolis Mrs. Hemingway The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books (and Two Not-So-Great Ones) Saved My Life Lincoln in the Bardo The Tenth Circle The Mitford Murders Small Great Things The Diary of a Bookseller The Book of Forgotten Authors Three Last First Dates The Pretty Delicious Cafe: Looking for summer, romance, friends and food? Come visit Ratai Beach. The Hate U Give The Secret River How to Breathe Underwater Wither The Iron Witch Holy Cow The Husband's Secret Burial Rites The Good People 2666 Mason & Dixon Infinite Jest Horns Red Queen Artemis The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair The Snow Child Sealskin The Maze Runner Big Little Lies Tiger Milk The Traitor and the Thief IQ Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine Ready Player One Bluescreen On an Island, with Consequences Dire Beloved Poison The Good Pilot, Peter Woodhouse The Crow Garden Kitty The Weight of Ink Evie's War Caraval The Forgotten Garden These Shallow Graves

PARTICIPANTS

1. Sharlene
2. Christmas☆ Carol!☆ - 4
3. Kerry - 4
4. Poliana
5. Carlene - 5
6. Ninitha - 8
7. Kelli -
8. Katherine
9. Kirsten
10. Bronwen - 2
11. Erica - 3
12. Carolina
13. Bronwyn
14. KimJ - 2
15. The Dude - 1
16. Darkpool - 2
17. Angie - 5
18. Mariana - 3
19. Gareth
20. Sheila - 3
21. P.D.R.
22. Lisa - 3

My picks:
Turtles All the Way Down
Wildflower
The Universe Has Your Back: Transform Fear to Faith

Good Morning Sharlene

My three

by Margaret Atwood
by Patricia Grace
by Elly Griffiths (first in a series)

Isn't the book pool usually for 2-3 months? Is this just for a month? I'm sorry but my app is being weird and it just cutting of the main msg midways so I have no clue what the rules are.

Ninitha wrote: "Isn't the book pool usually for 2-3 months? Is this just for a month? I'm sorry but my app is being weird and it just cutting of the main msg midways so I have no clue what the rules are."

The early Book Pools were just for one month. Sharlene has gone back to that. :)

Cool sign me up :) I'll get back to you with my picks later today

p.s. Wildflower by Drew Barrymore is great and a very quick read!

I'm in.
My three picks
by Mary Shelley
by Mal Peet
by Robin Hyde

Taking out The Wish Child by Catherine Chidgey (see message #14)

Jan 2018 is the 200th anniversary of the publication of Frankenstein.

My pick of New Zealand books:

by Maurice Gee

by Patricia Grace

by Michael King

My three:

Dear Charlie

I Wrote This For You: Just the Words

Afakasi Speaks

Went through my To-Read shelf and tried to pick stuff out of the ordinary or different.

Christmas☆ Carol!☆ wrote: "Ninitha wrote: "Isn't the book pool usually for 2-3 months? Is this just for a month? I'm sorry but my app is being weird and it just cutting of the main msg midways so I have no clue what the rule..."

Aaah! Thank you! That makes sense. I don't know how much reading I'll get done in January as I have family visiting from overseas and we are going to be traveling but I'd still give it a jolly good go. Count me in. My three picks are,

Still seems to be a library queue for The Wish Child so I'll change that one. I was #25 in queue when I tried just now to borrow it.

Poliana wrote: "My pick of New Zealand books:

by Maurice Gee

by Patricia Grace

by Michael King"

I've just read the Michael King. It's an excellent read but it took me 3 months.

I'm not much of a non fiction reader though.

Yeay, I was wondering when Book Pool would start! Please count me in, with these three books:
1. Mrs. Hemingway
2. The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books (and Two Not-So-Great Ones) Saved My Life
3. Lincoln in the Bardo

Hopefully, none of these have appeared on an earlier list...

ooo please count me in

my three books are

The Tenth Circle by Jodi Picoult
The Mitford Murders by Jessica Fellowes
Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult

I'm in.
My three are:

Hi ladies

My three picks are all NZ authors I hope that's okay...

Gabriel's Bay by Catherine Robertson - out 2nd January
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...

Three Last First Dates by Kate O'Keeffe
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...

The Pretty Delicious Cafe: by Danielle Hawkins
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...

My three picks are:

The Hate U Give

The Secret River

How to Breathe Underwater

Looks like such a great selection already!

Knee infected, can't drive for a month anyway, can't get to the library to find books. Thoroughly hacked off and grumpy.

How did you guess!

Hi do we just add books we want to read? Then when it starts we borrow/ buy from ours and anyone else's list? sorry first time

Kim J - that's right :)

Sorry, I’ve been missing in action for a good while. I’d love to join in. Will think about which books I’d like to add and come back in a day or two with my choices.

Wither
The Iron Witch
Holy Cow

Okay, the books-got-for-birthday category fits me. These are paper books and since I’m an evangelistic ebook reader, tree books sit piling up unread. So, good challenge – I’ll reduce the pile by these three –
The Husband's Secret
Burial Rites
The Good People

Kirsten wrote: "I'm in.
My three are:

"

Hi Kirsten
Can you please change book "Nothing Bad Happens Here" as it is already in the book pool. You have until 31 Dec to change it :)

Bronwen wrote: "Hi ladies

My three picks are all NZ authors I hope that's okay...

Gabriel's Bay by Catherine Robertson - out 2nd January
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...."

Hi Bronwen,
Can you please change your first pick as book needs to be out before 31 Dec. I know its only a few days, but it all matters. Too hard for those who rely on libraries to read (me included).

Bronwyn - I read earlier this year. Really interesting premise.

Hi all
I'm jumping in. My three to add to the pool are:

I took a bit of an absence from this site but glad to see this pool, I'd like to add
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...

Yeah I know, all doorstoppers but I've been meaning to read each of them for a while

Oh, count me in! I'll post again with my three books once I settle on the three.

I've been resisting, but I'm in. My books are
Horns
Red Queen
and Artemis

Yep I'm keen to join again.

My three are:

Finally decided on my three:

1) The Maze Runner, by James Dashner
2 ) Big Little Lies, by Liane Moriarty
3) Tiger Milk, by Stefanie de Velasco

The pool has been updated. I will send out a final blast & see who else is interested.

I'm in.
The Traitor and the Thief - by Gareth Ward
IQ - by Joe Ide
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine - by Gail Honeyman

I'm interested to read a few more of the Jodi Picoult ones, as well as the obvious big ones like Neil DeGrasse Tyson and John Green and The Maze Runner which has been sitting on my list. Hopefully I can get all the books easily from the library!

I'm in. What a great selection of books and lots in my tbr pile already.
My picks are
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Bluescreen by Dan Wells
On an Island with Consequences Dire by Kelly Ana Morey
Sorry haven't put cover pictures not sure how to do that on my tablet.
Can't wait for the new year now ......

I'll give you these but can't order many of these from the library so can't really join in. Please put the titles in as well as the covers as I can't read the darn things off the covers.

Beloved Poison by E J Thomson
Beloved Poison


The Good Pilot Peter Woodhouse

The Good Pilot, Peter Woodhouse

AND
The Crow Garden
The Crow Garden

Hi PDR,
My apologies. I will go through and add the titles too. Will be updated shortly.

Hi, not sure if my 3 titles were added to the list. Apologies if they have been. Looking forward to reading some good books. kim

Please count me in if it is not too late =)

My 3 books:
Caraval by Stephanie Garber


The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton


These Shallow Graves by Jennifer Donnelly

Ok everyone. I’m 99% sure the list is up to date.
Happy 2018 & Happy Reading!

Happy new years everyone! :)
Looking forward to this 2018 and my attempt at both the 2018 challenge and the January book pool. Hopefully I'll do better than I did this year :p
good luck to everyone :)

& we begin!
I'm hoping to start with The Husband's Secret - if I can find my copy!

Do we post the date of completing the book and a mini review here?

Sharlene wrote: "Kirsten wrote: "I'm in.
My three are:

"

Hi Kirsten
Can you please change book "Nothing Bad Happens Here" as it is already in the book pool. You have ..."

Ah, just saw this message. Too late to add one now. Sorry!

Mariana wrote: "Finally decided on my three:

1) The Maze Runner, by James Dashner
2 ) Big Little Lies, by Liane Moriarty
3) Tiger Milk, by Stefanie de Velasco"

Loved the Maze Runner! Hope you enjoy it x