Under 200 Pages! discussion

Book recommendations for the month of April are now open.

HERE ARE THE RULES

✿ Recommend books that are under 200 pages or slightly more than 200 pages will do.
✿ No promotions of any kind!
✿ Please suggest a worthy title for the group to read as a whole.
✿ Each member can nominate one book, and can endorse/second any one of the running nominations.
✿ Moderators have the final say in selecting a book for the poll.
✿ If there are no recommendations, the moderator will select two books for the poll.

Drop your recommendations in the comments

Nomination for the April Botm is open.
Drop your Recommendation.

I'd like to nominate by Richard Matheson

It's barely 180 pages and is a Science-fiction


Here's the blurb : Robert Neville is the last living man on Earth... but he is not alone. Every other man, woman and child on the planet has become a vampire, and they are hungry for Neville's blood.

By day he is the hunter, stalking the undead through the ruins of civilisation. By night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for the dawn

I’ m nominating We have always lived in a castle by Shirley Jackson.

Blurb: Taking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle that ensues when a cousin arrives at their estate. This edition features a new introduction by Jonathan Lethem.

Do drop your nominations for our Next read in April. You can also select books from the group bookshelf & add more books to be read as well.

I will nominate a while later :-)

Okay

Is 238 pages too far out of line?

If not, I nominate Stealing by Margaret Verble It published on Feb 7, 2024.

I'd like to nominate coraline by Neil Gaiman

blurb: The day after they moved in, Coraline went exploring....
In Coraline's family's new flat are twenty-one windows and fourteen doors. Thirteen of the doors open and close.

The fourteenth is locked, and on the other side is only a brick wall, until the day Coraline unlocks the door to find a passage to another flat in another house just like her own.

Only it's different.

At first, things seem marvelous in the other flat. The food is better. The toy box is filled with wind-up angels that flutter around the bedroom, books whose pictures writhe and crawl and shimmer, little dinosaur skulls that chatter their teeth. But there's another mother, and another father, and they want Coraline to stay with them and be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go.

Other children are trapped there as well, lost souls behind the mirrors. Coraline is their only hope of rescue. She will have to fight with all her wits and all the tools she can find if she is to save the lost children, her ordinary life, and herself.

♥ Sandi ❣ wrote: "Is 238 pages too far out of line?

If not, I nominate Stealing by Margaret Verble It published on Feb 7, 2024."

Thanks for your nomination. It’s not too far.

Nora (Grayson's version) wrote: "I'd like to nominate coraline by Neil Gaiman

blurb: The day after they moved in, Coraline went exploring....
In Coraline's family's new flat are twenty-one windows and fourteen doors. Thirteen of ..."

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Nora (Grayson's version) wrote: "I'd like to nominate coraline by Neil Gaiman

blurb: The day after they moved in, Coraline went exploring....
In Coraline's family's new flat are twenty-one windows and fourteen doors. Thirteen of ..."

This is an amazing book! Great choice

Good to see so many interesting nominations.

when does the voting start? ️

Next week

Last and finally call to drop in your nominations for our next read.

I nominate The Testament of Mary by Colm Tóibín

Austin - that book is great on audio - Meryl Streep narrates.

♥ Sandi ❣ wrote: "Austin - that book is great on audio - Meryl Streep narrates."

I see. I actually have a physical copy of it from my library at home.

I would like to nominate

The Blotting Book by E.F. Benson There is a kindle edition free on Amazon