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Originally Posted by sun surfer
Congrats to the Humour supporters. It can't get any closer than that. I think the last time we had a tie followed by a run-off tie in any vote in this club was way back in November 2011 for the monthly selection so it's a rare thing to be this evenly split.
The list looks good. I do notice that most of the new or resurrected categories (3/4 of Science, Humour, History, Fantasy) are at the end of the year so we won't get to them for a long while. We may even be voting on 2017 categories before we try out some of those first. However that's not a big deal and I'm just as good with keeping the list as is as with changing it, so whatever you prefer Tom.
This made me interested in my own stats. I joined this club in February 2011 and have read 42 of the selections since. This club has expanded my reading horizons over the last many years and I've really enjoyed it. There've been a few duds I've read such as Neverwhere, Shutter Island, Black Rain (and those three all within one six month period!  ) or Doomsday Book but there've been many more good books including gems such as The Name of the Wind, Anna Karenina, Cloud Atlas or The Age of Innocence. |
2015 to date: read 5 of 8, though all except The Iron King before choice as book of the month. Did not think much of The Iron King.
2014 read 5 of 12, all before selection of book of the month. Eye troubles kept me out of things for much of 2014.
2013 read 7 of 12, A Town Like Alice, The Swerve, Fanny and Stella, when selected as book of the month, others prior. Didn't much care for A Town Like Alice or Fanny and Stella.
2012 Read 7 of 12. Black Rain and Ivanhoe read before selected as book of the month. Really did not think much of Shutter Island or Cloud Atlas.
2011 Read 8 of 12. Anna Karenina, Slaughterhouse Five, The Island of Dr. Moreau, and A Christmas Carol read before selected as book of the month. All were alright to good except for silly Hal Spacejock. March of year marked my start of participation.
So my ratio considering the start date of March 2011 through August 2015 is 32 out of 54 read. Not great I'll admit, but did I mention that I don't care for genre fiction?
