Reading 1001 discussion

Taking nominations for next year's quarterly reads. Parameters would be anything over 600 and less than 999 pages. We will take nominations for awhile and then vote towards the end of the month, usually right after the BOTM voting. So in the ballpark of 11/26 or so.

Are there any exclusions, Kristel? I can't remember how long in between re-reads.

Diane wrote: "Are there any exclusions, Kristel? I can't remember how long in between re-reads."

I don't think there ever is exclusions cause it is nominations followed by voting so if a person picks something that has been read before they may not get their choices,

If anyone knows differently let me know. I looked back but couldn't find my notes. I know I have them somewhere. I would say don't nominate anything that was read in 2022. That just doesn't seem like a good idea.

So I found this from 2018; In October we will be nominating books for our 2018 quarterly reads. These are from books >600 pages. You can nominate as many books as you like. Books must not have been a previous seasonal read (?time period). We will vote on these in November. Each person will have 4 votes to use. (no participation points will be needed). Three books are chosen from the books that get the most votes and one by randomizer from all nominated books. The order is assigned by randomizer.

procedure for choosing Quarterly reads
In November we will be nominating books for 2023 quarterly reads. These are books from 601 pages to 999 pages. You can nominate as many books as you like. Book must not have been a previous seasonal read (? time limit, do you want a list of past Quarterly?) We will vote at the end of November. Each person will have 4 votes to use. No participation points are needed. 3 books will be chosen by the votes and one by randomizer from the nominated books. The order that quarterly books are read is assigned by the randomizer.
Hope that helps.

You can check the group book shelf. It should tell you if a book was a previous quarterly read.

Books Nominated:
A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
The World According to Garp by John Irving
Parade’s End - Ford Maddox Ford
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby - Charles Dickens
The Adventures of Angie March - Saul Bellow
The Three Musketeers
Gravity’s Rainbow
The First Circle
The Last Chronicle of Barset
Crime and Punishment
The Idiot
The Cider House Rules
The Corrections
Melmoth the Wanderer (Maturin)
The Bethrothed (Manzoni)
Indian Summer (Stifter)
Confessions by Rousseau
Ben-Hur by Wallace
Giles Goat-Boy
The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll
Daniel Deronda

I can't believe it is November already but this is my favorite time of year, planning next year's reads. So I will start off with...

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving (637 pages)
The World According to Garp by John Irving (610 pages)
Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford (836 pages)
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens (817 pages)

I'll nominate The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow. Most paperback editions are a little less than 600 pages but some hardcovers are more than 600 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9.... He was a Nobel laureate and the novel won the National Book Award and is on the Guardian 100 list.

I'll also nominate The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas (625 pgs). A couple others I thought to nominate have already been seasonal/quarterly reads.

Diane has already put up one of the books I want to read (Parade's End), so the other 3 I'll nominate are:

-Gravity's Rainbow
-In the First Circle
-The Last Chronicle of Barset

Lots of good choices so far. I own Parade's End and In the First Circle; and the library has Irving, Dumas, Bellow, and Dickens.

I would enjoy it if Gravity's Rainbow was voted in because I would love to read some discussion about that book (even though I won't be reading it again)!

Many good ones already. I really enjoyed A Fine Balance this year, and have just started Moby-Dick or, the Whale.

Nominating the following:

Crime and Punishment (my copy is 768 p)
The Idiot (my copy is 667 p)
The Cider House Rules (my copy is 641 p)
The Corrections (my copy is 606 p)

To the couple of mine that have already been nominated, I would like to add:

Melmoth the Wanderer (Maturin)
The Bethrothed (Manzoni)
Indian Summer (Stifter; my French copy has 656 pages, but it might be hard to find in English)

I would like to add:

Confessions by Rousseau
Ben-Hur by Wallace

I would like to add

La Regenta by Leopoldo Alas

These all sound good

Crime and Punishment
Confessions by Rousseau
Ben-Hur by Wallace
The Three Musketeers

I'm adding these to our list of nominations
Giles Goat-Boy
The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll
Daniel Deronda

Of the 21 on the list, I have only read one of them; The Corrections. I would very happily read at least 11 of the others if they are chosen. However, I am going to vote for these three:
Parade’s End
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll

Please go here for voting.

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