Ready to Ship discussion

August choices:

1. One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest - 325 pages
2. Terry Brooks for sale/magic kingdom - 324 pages
3. Legends and lattes - 296 pages
4. Tuesdays with Morrie - 210 pages
5. Guards Guards - Terry Pratchett - 376 pages

Half of my friends gave vrey high ratings to "Guards! Guards!" and other half wants to read. I'm intrigued

Of all the books my local library only has one flew over cuckoos nest 😩

Not surprised, it's classics 😊

Looks like they do ebook versions too, and in that case they have all the ones above.. so let me know what you prefer I'm easy :)

I think right now I would prefer to read "Guards! Guards!". I want to try Prattchett one more time and understand If I'm going to read him more in th future😁

Let's do it - Guards Guards it is

Any ideas for next testing books? almost finished with guards too, so we can decide on next novel too if you like?

I haven't thought about next books yet. But I will)) need to check our "want to read" shelf here.
and regarding a novel: we can choose smth from the list we already have in this topic. And I have one more book to add to it: "Verity" by Colleen Hoover

guards guards was my promotion, so you can choose the next one :D

You’re too kind 🥲.. maybe we have some books where we share “want to read” ?

I was spying on your want-to-read .. what about this?

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7...

I just bought this for 50p in a local shop lol .. doesn't seem super long? .. what do you think

200 hundred pages and this book is from my "scratch book map" - looks like a good choice))

btw here we have all the books that we both have in "want to read":
https://www.goodreads.com/user/compar...

and there is a link in the right upper corner - "book compatibility test"!! cooool

From our technical to-read I would prefer one of these:
- Bridging the Communication Gap
- Would Heu-risk it? (this one more than others probably)
- The Leading Brain
- Leading Quality

I posted our to-read list, in the qa-book-club channel but no responses yet.. Happy to go with you on the heu-risk it one if there are no votes there

Just one thing about this book - I can't find it anywere. There is only hardcover version on amazon and it costs 90$

Beata gave a vote for heu-risk-it too..

Or there is one, but it's unavailable for my region https://www.amazon.in/dp/B0C8GMGG87?t...

I'll try find a pdf. Worst case scenario I can take pics of my copy? (I bought paperback a while back on training budget)

I'll try to search more too. And yeah, it's not a very big book, pics will be ok I guess If nothing else is found

Oh, Sorry, I was looking at the wrong amazon 🤪
There is kindle wersion for 22$, still too much in my opnion, but better than 90😅

22 is ridiculous... ok let me purchase on my training budget for you

Let me search more, I don't know how to return money to you in UK😅

you don't need to return! it can be our 'book club' budget

If I purchase the kindle version - how can I get it over to you? any way of downloading it somehow and sharing?

Well, If you sure, I'll be very greateful😊
It should be possible to download the file from kindle I think. Before buying let me check it with some my kindle book

How is the voting in the slack going?

So far only Beata mentioned heu-risk-it ..I don’t mind doing that one too. It’s bank holiday here so now work today but will check tomorrow and then most likely we’ll do heu-risk-it I think

Hey Anastasiya, looks like it's heu-risk-it .. catch you on Thursday!

Ah also, I am speaking with HR about some shared account where book club members can access the books we have.. I'm not sure of the best way around this (sounds like a business idea)

For now I haven't found this book anywhere except Amazon. So If you have time and it's not much trouble for you, could you please make photos of the first chapter for me?

of course!

Maybe animal farm? Looks short and is on both our to-read lists? ..or maybe this Tuesday with morrie one? (I need something short and completely different after fear and loathing)

Both of them sounds good. But they are two really different things i suppose: Tuesddays is about good in life, and animal farm is about the worst. So we should make a choice depending on the mood we want))

I was going to say, let’s go with which one is more happy..but I read description of Tuesdays with Morrie it’s about a dying man ..😭😪

From our previous variants those two should be positive:
- Terry Brooks for sale/magic kingdom - 324 pages
- Legends and lattes - 296 pages
From our common to-read:
- Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson - 386 pages but it's a begining of the series
- The Midnight Library - 304

And we have a lot of classics in common to-read

Shall we take a short classic then? I’ll check out your list

I've noticed you started "invisible monsters". Maybe we can take it for the book club?

I just started it because it’s there on my shelf at home ..I bought it with fear and loathing only 50pence

I’m on chapter 4 it’s pretty good and gripping already. I intended to read on the side with our book club but don’t mind doing it for book club :)

it's in my to-read too, so why not))

Ok sure :)

I was going to read this book soon: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
What do you think about taking it for book club?
Si-fi about aliens

Just checked it out, I marked as to-read. It seems quite long, almost 500 pages, but considering our current testing book will take some time, I don't mind starting this one. I'll check if my library has it.

Can you believe I went there yesterday, to start chipping away at my to-read list, with the popular classics. I wanted something short because I am moving house on 1st Oct, so I wanted something to finish quickly before the move - otherwise I'd have to travel all the way back to give the book back.

Anyways, of all of the books they only had 'of mice and men' - I went to scan it to take it out, and the machine said 'not found on database' .. After trying again, one of the librarians came up to me and tried to enter it manually and he couldn't. He then told me, oh its an old book you can't take it because it's not on our db... even though he's holding it in his hand........ so i left empty handed after spending 30 mins looking around for books :(

They don't even have any hemmingway books there, literally nothing from my to-read list .. I found frankenstein but their edition was huge. I don't recall the book being that long.

Anyways, I had to get that off my chest...

It seems they have more of a focus on kids books (huuuuge section) and the modern books. So hopefully they'll have this one.

It's long but it's being read quite smooth and fast actually. And it has plot and it's not weird)))
New house! Sounds exiting!)
No classics in the library???? What kind of library is that?
Frankenstein is not long, I've read it previous Autumn. Didn't like it though :D

Ah! have you started it already??

Yeah Frankenstein is so ollllld I imagine it's such a difficult read. I had a copy when I was young but never read it. I need to pay a visit to my mums house to get some of my books I left there.

And yeah new house, exciting ... moving house, not so much ...I hate moving..

Yeah, I've read a bit. I needed to switch to smth quickly after the invisible monsters))

Yeah, it was not easy reading. I wrote a review but it contains spoilers)

Moving is hard, I know. I envy people who can easily move from house to house, from country to county. Though I like to go through my things and arrange them on the new shelves)) But packing them! horrible. Good luck)

yeah, in the new place we are renting it has a garden and 3 bedrooms. Currently we have 2 and it's a small apartment. So I have plans to turn the 3rd room into my own space. No one can enter. It will be a cosy library ...I hope haha

garden! so nice!
one's own cosy room - sounds like a dream) always wanted such a room