Event: Poké Poké Literature Club!

Finished a few days back! I enjoyed it, although I feel the middle was my favourite section compared to both the beginning and the ending.
 
And finished! (at 2am like the author mentions in their acknowledgement section at the end!)
I liked it overall, the adventure side of it kept me always wanting to read more. I was sneaking in chapters whilst cooking which isn't something I've done before!
Some of the conversations felt a bit "video game-y" like the protagonist was picking dialogue options in an rpg and people were just telling him exactly what he wanted to get from the question which I thought was funny.
I'm happy I was able to solve the mystery and some other things way before the protagonist was. Though the final mystery did feel a bit weaker than the rest (maybe that's me being biased as I wasn't able to solve it beforehand?)
All in all, I really enjoyed the book and encourage anyone reading this thread to give the book a read. I'm sure you'll enjoy it!
 
I finished the book this morning! It was a bit dicey at the end finishing before my loan expired but it worked out.

I think I liked the book more this time around than the first time I read it. I remembered really enjoying the journey and hating the ending the first time, but I didn't mind the ending as much this time, possibly because I already knew it was coming so it didn't seem so out of left field.
 
damb that was crazy

time really sped up for most of the end which felt a little off-kilter and ended up with a lot of exposition in a place where there is usually not but following all the twists and turns throughout was funnn. & i called a few key plot elements very very early on which i always am pleased by

good book to spend a day on~
 
I finished!

My knowledge of mystery is small, my only reference Detective Conan and The Boxcar Children, so while I can't speak on any creativity or subversions, I enjoyed it as an introduction to the subgenre. Time looping is something I'm quite fond and I found it well-paced for the most part.
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It was a fun read, and as somebody who doesn't theorize the answers or twists in a mystery, instead opting to read everything in one go without pausing, I enjoyed what started as a winding path until you slowly understood the events and what really happened. uh yeh hehe
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Sorry for the late update all, but we are ready to choose a new book!

First, I will take the L and admit I did not get around to finishing 7 1/2 Deaths personally by the deadline - nothing against the book, just holidays got me off the reading habit but new year new me and all, I hope to stick to it this time and will finish Evelyn Hardcastle in my own time too!

I've recorded the following users to have finished the book - please correct me if your name is not here and you finished it as well:

Sheep
bobandbill
Bay
Yellow Bommen
Jbsundown
Cherrim
Aquacorde
HappinessShow
professor plum
luke​

And without further ado, book submissions are open! You have a week (until March 1st) to make your suggestions, max 1 per person. New members welcome as always, with or without a nomination!

All nominations will be compiled into the Progress Board - we currently have one from Austin already, so check it out!
 
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okay look I keep meaning to read Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer (it is on my desk looking at me and has been for most of a year) so im gonna suggest that lmao

Wikipedia blurb???
"Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants is about botany and the relationship to land in Native American traditions. Kimmerer, who is an enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, writes about her personal experiences working with plants and reuniting with her people's cultural traditions. She also presents the history of the plants and botany from a scientific perspective."
 

Thank you for all the nominations! You can see them all here - we got the three in this thread and one from Discord.

I do not seem to have the option to remove the poll here, so I've just set up this in the meantime:

Vote here!

If another staffer knows how to remove the poll, let me know! To keep all the votes in one place this time, we'll just use the link above.

Voting ends March 9!
 
Juno said:
I do not seem to have the option to remove the poll here, so I've just set up this in the meantime:

Vote here!

If another staffer knows how to remove the poll, let me know! To keep all the votes in one place this time, we'll just use the link above.

Voting ends March 9!
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The poll doesn't appear for me. I want to vote for The Black Spectacles. :mareepwave:
 
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The results are in!! Thank you all for voting, and so sorry the link I posted here wasn't working! Thank you so much jbsundown for posting the correct link in my absence, and thank you Sheep for removing the poll :woop: I'll be using the forum poll from now on going forward, will just need an admin to remove the prior.

And without further ado, our next reading club book is...

The Black Spectacles
by John Dickson Carr

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A sinister case of deadly poisoned chocolates from Sodbury Cross's high street shop haunts the group of friends and relatives assembled at Bellegarde, among the orchards of 'peach-fancier' Marcus Chesney. To prove a point about how the sweets could have been poisoned under the nose of the shopkeeper, Chesney stages an elaborate memory game to test whether any of his guests can see beyond their 'black spectacles'; that is, to see the truth without any assumptions as witnesses.

During the test – which is also being filmed – Chesney is murdered by his supposed accomplice. The keen wits of Dr. Gideon Fell are called for to crack this brazen and bizarre murder committed in full view of an audience.

Also known by its American title The Problem of the Green Capsule , this 1939 novel is widely regarded as one of John Dickson Carr's masterpieces and remains among the greatest impossible-crime mysteries of all time.


You can begin sourcing your copies and reading as soon as you can! Here are a few places you can pick it up:

Amazon (CA)
Amazon (US)
Audiobooks.com

And of course your local library and book stores can be great places to look as well. And again, we will have roughly 3 months to finish this book (let's say until the end of June) - I look forward to our discussions and reading together until then!
 
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