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Hello!
Our two themes for September:-

Theme 1: 🌏Asia Through Pages📖
This theme selection was made by Lusie!
Thank you Lusie for such a wonderful suggestion & we hope everyone will be able to find books for this theme on their shelf.

Suggest a book that resembles the theme in some way. You can select books based in any part of Asia, books that have one or more Asian characters, or the ones authored by an Asian person. And you can explore themes like Asian mythologies, historical tales set in Asia etc.

Theme 2: 🏥Literary Healing Hands💙
September has many dedicated days for various diseases & ailments like World Rabies Day, World Heart Day, World Day of the Deaf, and days dedicated to people involved in healthcare such as World Pharmacists Day. To celebrate people & their contributions who are involved in taking care of patients in one way or another, whether as a doctor, nurse or even a caretaker, we have kept this theme.

Suggest a book that resembles the theme in some way. You can select books that explore the life of people in healthcare as they navigate the challenges and changes that come with their profession, or explore books with characters who work in healthcare, or family members who are responsible for taking care of someone. You can also explore genres like Medical Thrillers, Contemporary Medical Dramas, Romance between people working in healthcare etc.

You can nominate 2 books each for the above-listed themes.

Before nominating, take note of the following points:-

1. Please suggest only those books you'll be genuinely interested in reading in September. (view spoiler)[We have observed that books suggested by the members are the ones they have already read and if and when that book is chosen through a poll, those members do not participate in the discussion.
The idea of BOTM is to read and discuss books together in the group. (hide spoiler)]

2. Link the books you suggest and if you are using the app or can't link it, include the name of the author with the book name. Some books have duplicate titles.

3. We expect you to participate in the discussion if your suggested book is chosen for the month.

The BOTMs for September will be decided through a group poll according to the suggestions received here.

Nominations close by 21st Aug.

Hello :)

For Asia Through Pages, I propose :
- The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea by Axie Oh
- Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan

For Literary Healing Hands (hard to find, hope they work) :
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (the sisters take care of Beth, who is ill)
- The German Midwife by Mandy Robotham

Héloïse ☾ wrote: "Hello :)

For Asia Through Pages, I propose :
- The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea by Axie Oh
- Daughter of the Moon Goddess by [author:Sue Lynn Tan..."

These work perfectly.

For the second theme, a book like Me Before You qualifies too, where Louisia, who isn't actually a healthcare worker(if I remember correctly), takes up caretaking job. So any book which comes close to the theme would work.

For Asia Through Pages I'll suggest Sisters of the War or Kismat Connection

For Literary Healing Hands, Hiroshima Diary: The Journal of a Japanese Physician, August 6-September 30, 1945 and The Pull of the Stars

For Asia through pages

She Who Became the Sun
Iron Widow

For literary healing hands

When Crickets Cry one of my favorite books
The White Coat Diaries

For literary healing hands, I nominate The Patient by Michael Palmer



For Asia through pages, I nominate Gora by Rabindranath Tagore

For Asia through Pages:
I nominate If You Could See the Sun by Ann Liang

For Literary Healing Hands
I nominate Lady Tan's Circle of Women by Lisa See

For Asia through pages:

Pachinko
Before the Coffee Gets Cold

Nominations will be closing soon. If you have any, let us know.

For Literary Healing Hands

The Shifter