She-Geeks discussion

It's that time of the month again to open up recommendations for our next group read!

Theme for November: Open

Recommendations will be taken from November 1st - 14th - so be sure to get in early and suggest what you would like to see read!

Here's the guidelines for recommending books for new group members, and old hands alike:

1. Every month we read one comic book, one novel, and one manga. Comics and manga can fall under any genre, but please note that novels must fall under the heading of science fiction, fantasy, or horror (and any of their sub-genres).

2. Please recommend books that have not been previous group reads. You can see which books we've read previously here.

3. Be specific. Don't say "any book by ______". It won't be counted.

4. Please link your book in your thread so members can easily look it up.

5. Suggest a book that you think would be good for a large group discussion - that's the point of this group bringing us all together!

How voting works

We choose the top three in each category for the final vote from the 15th - 21st of the month based on how many votes it has.

1. All members can vote on a book/comic/manga they would like to read if somebody suggests it. Simply reply to the thread with "I'm voting for ______" or "VOTE: _____" and it will be counted. The books with the most votes get chosen to be put into the final three poll in the 3rd week of the month. Only comments with the word "vote" somewhere in it will be counted as such in order to avoid confusion.

2. Please only vote for a work ONCE. Multiple votes for the same works will not be counted.

3. You can change or modify your votes as many times as you'd like before the thread closes on the 14th.

4. In the case where two or more books are have equal votes, the book that was suggested first (as indicated by the timestamp on the thread) will enter the poll for the month.

All members do not have to read, recommend, or vote for all three genres - if you only want to suggest and read a novel, that's fine! We're a pretty diverse group here.

The poll with the top three chosen titles of each category will go live on August 15th. A message to all group members will be sent out when that commences.

Let's get recommending!

I'd like to read Blankets by Craig Thompson: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25179

I'd like to read Love in the Time of Global Warming by Francesca Lia Block! http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16...

Hello! How about "The Stereotypical Freaks": https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

It's been nominated for the 2014 "Great Graphic Novels For Teens" List by the Young Adult Library Services Assoc (YALSA) who are part of the American Library Assoc

http://www.ala.org/yalsa/ggnt/nominat...

Hi Meredith - did you want to pick maybe one or two works you'd really love to read with the group for November, and perhaps save the other suggestions for upcoming months?

Novel:
The Fault in Our Stars BY: John Green
I never really read this one but a lot of people told me to read it so I would like to recommend this to you too.
Manga:
Ouran High School Host Club, Vol. 07 BY: Bisco Hatori
This one has a series of volumes. I like this since its somewhat a reverse harem and it has romance
and Its really funny. I read the whole manga and over all I love it! I watched the anime of this too And if you want you can watch it. There's a season 2 of the anime this december i think!

Clara, The Fault in Our Stars doesn't really fit the group. Novels should be scifi, fantasy, horror or a subgenre of those.
It's definitely worth a read though. I'm interested to see how the movie turns out.

I second Blankets for comic.

For book, I vote The Thief of Always by Clive Barker.

You mean like the Blankets comic or like non-genre books such as Fault in Our Stars?

Sounds good to me

Hey all - I just realized that the poll NOR the decision had actually been posted (my apologies, October has definitely been a hectic month for me, and looks like for the other mods as well!).

How do all you guys want to handle this? I was thinking maybe we can have some open threads in each of our sections, and everybody can come together and talk about what they're reading this month within those media.

Chimney wrote: "Maybe we can host a special contemporary month sometime in the future? I'm a rather big fan off contemporary stories myself, which actually really surprised me when I noticed, though I can't think ..."


Hey Chimney,

I in LOVE with the Plain Jane series by Cecil Castellucci. It's a modern high school tale about a bunch of ladies all named "Jane". It's very clever.