The Seasonal Reading Challenge discussion

The polls for the Fall 2017 Group Reads are open.
Click on "Comments & Details" below the book list to get to the "This poll is about" book links.

You may vote until the end of the Goodreads day on August 14.

Just a reminder- get your chance to vote for the Fall Group Reads. The polls close tonight.

Our Fall Group Reads have been chosen:

Fiction Set in a Member State of the Arab League - Death on the Nile

Fiction - Poetry - The Aeneid

Non-Fiction - Climate and Weather - The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

The Aeneid for both fiction and non-fiction???

Darn it. I only just read Death on the Nile for the Spring challenge! :-)

Bea wrote: "The Aeneid for both fiction and non-fiction???"

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Trish wrote: "Darn it. I only just read Death on the Nile for the Spring challenge! :-)"

Me too.

Trish wrote: "Darn it. I only just read Death on the Nile for the Spring challenge! :-)"

Me too!

Death on the Nile will be a re read for me.

Missed the poll...sigh.

Jayme(the ghost reader) wrote: "Death on the Nile will be a re read for me."

Me too! But I don't mind. It's a great book.

bets on how many of the 22 people who voted for the Aeneid actually read it? lol!

Dee wrote: "bets on how many of the 22 people who voted for the Aeneid actually read it? lol!"

I read it ... in Latin ... when in high school. Once was enough ....

@bookconcierge - wow! the whole thing?! I suffered through part of Book IV in Latin, can't imagine what sort of sadists would make teens read the whole thing!

wow, BC...kudos to you!

i'll admit to debating read it (but I didn't vote for it)...I found one of the great courses at my library based on it (12 lectures of 30min each) - so I'm going to do that at the same time I think

Cat wrote: "@bookconcierge - wow! the whole thing?! I suffered through part of Book IV in Latin, can't imagine what sort of sadists would make teens read the whole thing!"

I took four years of Latin (and a year of ancient Greek) in high school. I was a weird kid ...

I liked Ovid's Metamorphosis. better.

I did 5 yrs I think - took GCSE in it. I'd've considered doing Latin for my A-level, but I think that the Aeneid Book IV helped kill that idea - Aeneas was SUCH a prick to Dido in the book, I couldn't bear it!

As for ancient Greek - it clashed with an English course I did, so no go there.

I cant think of anything worse than the Aeneid but luckily the other 2 options look interesting. That is the beauty of this something for everyone