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It is time to start nominations for our group reads for the new year (2017).

What would you like to read for discussion in January and February?

I am opening this up to anything (regular and classic and whatever else), so feel free to nominate anythings, new releases, older releases, old classics, popular books, thought provoking books, non-fiction books, etc.

We will read the top vote getters, whatever they may be!

We will plan on these reads being for January and February, to give us all a break in December to get caught up with our current reads, and to get everyone through all of the end of the year holidays.

If you nominate a book, please be willing and available to lead the discussion if the book is selected.

I'm hearing nothing but crickets chirping ladies! LOL

What, and now crickets are not allowed to nominate titles?
LOL!

I forgot about this thread.

Evicted by Matthew Desmond

Classic nomination
Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset

I like to read Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult

Nominating A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
A Gentleman in Moscow

nominatingTinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

These are all excellent choices ladies! I would be happy to read any and all of these. We have novels about social issues, non fiction works, classics, and even a classic chunky. Honestly, I don't know what to vote for as I would be happy with any of these. But poll is up. We can do the top 2, or even the top 3 if the votes are close:

/poll/show/1...

Poll will run through the 15th of December.

Nominating A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine L'Engle.

Posie wrote: "Nominating A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine L'Engle."

Posie, the nominations were closed earlier this month. Tomorrow is the deadline to cast your vote. You can find a link to the poll in post #8. Save this nomination for our next round of nominations.

Thanks Irene. :)

Well we have a 3-way tie, and they are all great choices of varying genres!

So we will be doing:

the non-fiction Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, by Matthew Desmond (nominated by Irene)

the Jodi Picoult novel Small Great Things, about prejudice, race, and justice, (nominated by Jayme)

and the 1,100 + page Chunky and Classic book Kristin Lavransdatter (also nominated by Irene).

Since this is a tie, do you ladies have a preference to who would like to read which first? We can always do a little overlapping with the Chunky one too, as I imagine that discussion will stretch out a bit, and we often have two reads going here in this group at once.

I have no preference.

My suggestion is to read the chunky simultaneously with the two shorter reads since we usually have a shorter one going along side a chunky. So, start KL when the Vera Britain book is concluded. As to the shorter ones, I don't care which order we do them in.

Sounds like a good plan, Irene! The current chunky is scheduled to end mid January, so we can start Kristin Lavransdatter the beginning of Feb to get everyone a chance to finish and get ready.

Since you are leading two of these Irene, how about we let Jayme start Great Small Things mid-January (give people time to get copies), then overlap the chunky KL starting beginning February when our current chunky is over, then start Evicted when Great Small Things is over (probably mid to end of February)?

okay

Thanks Jayme. :-)

Hello ladies I'm in for

Sheila, that schedule works for me.

Thank you ladies. And Irene (the other Irene), glad to have you joining us for Small Great Things!

I will have a schedule up after January 1st.

I updated my name to IreneM. That way it's easy to distinguish us. LOL.

Thank you IreneM! LOL!

This is the only GR group that I am in with another active Irene.

Since Testament of Youth is finished, when do we want to start the next chunky? I could be ready by mid month, but I don't know if that is enough time for folks to get the book. Also, I need a bit of help with the schedule. My electronic copy is not paginated. I see that each of the three sections are divided into three parts. Would it be reasonable to read one part per week finishing the novel in 9 weeks?
Sheila, will you be setting up the thread?

I would be happy to set up a thread for you Irene. Looking at my book some of the sections look fine for 1 week reading (100 pages or less) but there are a couple longer ones. My copy the pages per section are 94, 94, 104, 116, 160, 130, 118, 162, 144.
We could break the longer chapters into 2 weeks, or just give extra days to these sections and not keep our weeks even. What do you think?

How about we start on Feb 1st to give people time to round up a copy.

Is there a convenient break point in those longer chapters if we were were to divide them over 2 weeks? If not, we could simply assign 2 weeks to the section. What do you think?

Both of the 160 page long sections have 8 chapters in each of them, so probably easy to say read chapters 1 through 4 one week and 5-8 the next week.

Ok, How does this look?
Start reading Feb. 1
Feb. 5 Discuss any Introduction in your version of the novel
Feb. 12 Discuss The Wreath Part 1
Feb. 19 Discuss The Wreath Part 2
Feb. 26 Discuss The Wreath Part 3
March 5 Discuss The Wife Part 1
March 12 Discuss The Wife Part 2 chapter 1-4
March 19 Discuss The Wife Part 2 chapters 5-8
March 26 Discuss The Wife Part 3
April 2 Discuss The Cross Part 1
April 9 Discuss The Cross Part 2 chapters 1-4
April 16 Discuss The Cross Part 2 chapters 5-8
April 23 Discuss The Cross Part 3 the end of the book

Sheila, can you get this thread set up? Thanks.

Looks great Irene. I will set this up in its own thread.

O wow! I can't believe we start Evicted in less than a week. Sheila, can you start the thread so I can post a reading schedule. I am suggesting a part a week.

Feb. 15 read Part 1 RENT
Feb. 22 discuss Part 1 and read part 2 OUT
March 1 discuss part 2 and read Part 3 AFTER
March 8 discuss entire book

Yes, I will get this up for you.

Irene, I just realized we have the discussion of our current book running through the week of the 19th, so do you want to set the dates for this one to start AFTER that?

I was wondering the same thing but this was listed officially as starting on Feb 15 and I did not want to create a problem.

How would this be?
March 1 begin reading part 1, RENT
March 8 discuss Part 1 and start reading Part 2 OUT
March 15 discuss Part 2 and begin reading Part 3 OUT
March 22 discuss entire book.

Sounds great. Thank you.

Irene wrote: "I was wondering the same thing but this was listed officially as starting on Feb 15 and I did not want to create a problem.

How would this be?
March 1 begin reading part 1, RENT
March 8 discuss P..."

I think we are almost done with Small Great Things. Most of the people have finished the book.

It is always nice to have a little break to take a breath between books though. Gives everyone behind a chance to catch up, finish, and get started on the next read. :-)