May - August Voting

thanks Crystal - i clicked for circle which i've had marked to read for ages and fireflies which i hadnt heard of before

 

Great idea - thanks for getting it up and running. Excited because I have only read Life of Pi so all others will be new to me.

 

thank you .
Flat lake for me, and Where are the children. Life of PI I will read regardless . Looing forward to see what we will read.

 

These are all great choices. The leaders are my fav choices too so that's even better. Looks like we may need to figure out how to break the tie for reading order.

 

Well the only one of the top 4 at my library is "The Circle" so it looks like that's the one I'll be reading first. I may try the whole Maryland request system though that can either be soon or months' later if they can find it.

 

Does this mean we can read them in any order? Won't that be confusing for comments? I thought we would read like this.
1st (May) - The light of the fireflies
2nd (June) - The circle
3rd (July) - Flat Lake in winter
4th (August) - Where are the children.

Maybe it doesn't matter.

 

We could pick the top four books and then start separate threads for each one of them and run them through the end of summer too. Then you could read whichever one strikes your fancy and follow along with the comments in each individual thread. Or Crystal could get the top four and then randomly pick which one is for which month. My book club at church does this where they pick 6 months of books at a time and just assign them each to one month. That give people time to get the books ahead of time.

 

I like the idea of separate threads for each and let everyone get them as they can. Thats great idea and some folks who have to go on waiting lists will be relieved...

 

That would give me time to try to get the circle . My Kindle is refusing to go on the internet
but I am easy with what everyone else wants.

 

ok - everyone - chime in...
@crystalbella77 - what do you think? I will be happy to start the threads. I'm thinking we would need separate threads anyway, whatever order.
I hope you are feeling well.

 

I am confused though - what do the stars mean? I didn't add a thread for Where ae the children since the star was beside Life of Pi. (or maybe we have five choices for four months so everyone is able to get at least four books - sort of like the 8 challenges instead of seven.... )

 

I think the stars are the ones you voted for. And one nice thing, at least to me, is that we could always start a thread for other books if we think others have read them and want to talk about them. Cuz if I'm being honest, I'm only slightly interested in one of the top four books so far. (When is voting closed? Is there a set date/time?)

 

The star is the book you voted for, you have to go by the percentages, to see the top 4 . so you can start a thread for where are the children,if the voting is now closed , Is it ?

 

I only checked one - The Circle which sounds great!

 

This is just so cool. @Tree City - I love your idea. Maybe to avoid confusion we can preface the seperate threads something like this.. "Lets talk about: Book Name".

I start up a thread for where are the children too.

@crystalbella77 - just helping cause I know you haven't been feeling well.

 

@Lindzee that sounds like a great idea for thread titles! I love having time to read the books plus this 4-months-ahead approach just gives us time to discuss them. I'm not suggesting we have a thread for every single book ever written lol, but this is such a great space for sharing our reading experiences.
And now we can start our Sept-Dec thread in, like, June. That way we have time to read those ahead too.

 

To a happy head @crystalbella77! {{hugs}}