The History Book Club discussion

Aloha, this is your thread for 2018. I have included the link to the required format thread and an example. If you had a 2017 thread - it will be archived so when you get the opportunity move over your completed books and formats to the 2018 thread - but we will allow time for you to do that.

Please follow the standard required format below - I hope you enjoy your reading in 2018. Here is also a link for assistance with the required guidelines:

Link: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Our Required Format:

JANUARY

1. by Winston S. Churchill
Finish date: January 2018
Genre: (whatever genre the book happens to be)
Rating: A
Review: You can add text from a review you have written but no links to any review elsewhere even goodreads. And that is about it. Just make sure to number consecutively and just add the months.

IMPORTANT - THE REVIEW SHOULD BE SHORT AND SWEET - THERE ARE NO LINKS OF ANY KIND IN THE BODY OF THE REVIEW ALLOWED. NONE. DO NOT REFER TO ANY OTHER BOOK IN YOUR BRIEF REVIEW. THE ONLY BOOK CITED IN YOUR REVIEW IS THE ONE YOU ARE REVIEWING - NO OTHERS. ALL LINKS TO OTHER THREADS OR REVIEWS ARE DELETED IMMEDIATELY - THERE WILL BE NO WARNING. WE CONSIDER THIS SELF PROMOTION AND IT IS NOT ALLOWED AND IS IN VIOLATION OF OUR RULES AND GUIDELINES.

Aloha, I believe you are new to these threads - we are here to help you with the standard format which once you get it under your belt is extremely easy. Check out the How To thread because it gives you all of the details you need to be successful. It takes everybody a couple of entries to get the knack and you can always rely on looking back at the example in comment box one if you forget.

We are here to help and hope you enjoy your thread in 2018.

Regards,

Bentley

I’ve been in and out of this Club so I only need to refresh on the rules. Thanks, Bentley.

That is good Aloha - you have been with us awhile

JANUARY

1. by Brian MacDuckston (no photo)
Finish Date: January 2018
Genre: Cooking
Rating: A
Review: TBD

2. by JeeLoo Liu (no photo)
Finish Date: January 2018
Genre: Philosophy
Rating: A+
Review: TBD

3. by Virginia Woolf
Finish Date: January 2018
Genre: Literature
Rating: A+
Review: TBD

4. by Ernest Cline
Finish Date: January 2018
Genre: Sci-Fi
Rating: A
Review: TBD

FEBRUARY

5. by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Finish Date: February 2018
Genre: Russian Literature
Rating: A
Review: TBD

6. by Naomi Alderman
Finish Date: February 2018
Genre: Sci-Fi
Rating: C
Review: TBD

7. by Jean-Paul Sartre
Finish Date: February 2018
Genre: Philosophy
Rating: A+
Review: TBD

8. by David Foster Wallace
Finish Date: February 2018
Genre: Essays
Rating: A+
Review: TBD

9. by Robert Walser
Finish Date: February 2018
Genre: Essays
Rating: A+
Review: TBD

10. by Fredrik Backman
Finish Date: February 2018
Genre: Swedish Literature
Rating: A
Review: TBD

Hello Aloha - the reviews have to be added when you add the book.

But I know that you are catching up. They do not have to be long at all - a couple of sentences is fine

Hi Bentley. I’m such a perfectionist, so I procrastinate in writing anything. I’ll try this weekend.

That is fine - just feel in the blanks and you can always embellish or edit and paste later. That is why we tell folks that you have to add something right away - there are a lot of perfectionists amongst us.

MARCH

11. by Arthur Koestler
Finish Date: March 2018
Genre: Hungarian Literature
Rating: A
Review: Pensive commentary on the bastardization of the revolution’s idealism in the form of dialectics, yet somehow caused by the original fathers.

There you go - now fill in the others this weekend so you are caught up. One reason we say that all segments must be filled in is that we only get to count those books that we have read in their entirety and have all of the parts completed when we post. And if you keep it short - it is never a chore.