You'll love this one...!! A book club & more discussion

The winning theme for August is "Books in which the main character is over 60".

You can nominate a book now.

If you don't want to nominate your own book, you can second someone else's nomination instead, and that will count as your own nomination, and that book will be entered an extra time in random.org - giving the book an additional chance to make the cut.

Nominations can be seconded multiple times by different people . If you second a nomination, please make clear that is what you are doing. E.g. If I nominate "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", you need to state "I second Harry Potter and the Philosopher's stone".

A couple of points to consider when nominating:

- Please check the YLTO Group Book Shelf to ensure we haven't already read the book in the last 2 years before nominating it.

- In case of series, only the first book in a series is allowed, even if later books could be considered as stand-alone. If however, a book belongs in the same "universe" (considered a series, but the books are not numbered), you may nominate it. Also, prequels to a series can be nominated after it has been verified that it will not spoil the series.

- One nomination/seconding per person.


Only 5 books will be selected to be in the poll when it comes to voting.

Each of the chosen group read books will have a discussion leader assigned to help facilitate the discussion. The discussion leader will be the person who originally nominated the book, or someone who seconded their nomination if they do not wish to do it.

Nominations will end July 18th.

Nominations:
1. The Stone Angel (Janice)
2. How to Age Disgracefully (Kristie)
3. The Change (Katrisa)
4. Don’t Forget to Write (Jayme)
5. When the Cranes Fly South (Grainne)
6. The Witches of Moonshyne Manor (Margo)

I'm going to nominate The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence. I read this years ago and it became my favourite book "of all time". Now? I don't remember it. It wasn't until someone mentioned Margaret Laurence in a comment. I think I'd like to read it again and see if it's still my favourite of all time.

I'll nominate How to Age Disgracefully. I've been wanting to read it.

I nominate The Change. My sister loved the book and I keep meaning to read it but then bumping it. I asked ChatGPT to make sure that at least one of the main characters was over 60 and it said that Harriett is definitely in her early 60s.

I will nominate Don’t Forget to Write. I have had it slated several times for the annual challenge, but then a library hold comes up and bumps it back to my TBR. Maybe this way I will finally get to it.

Jayme wrote: "I will nominate Don’t Forget to Write. I have had it slated several times for the annual challenge, but then a library hold comes up and bumps it back to my TBR. Maybe this way I wi..."

This is the book I planned to nominate if the 'set in the 1960s" theme won the last time. I didn't even think about for it for this theme.

I am going to recommend When the Cranes Fly South. It looks interesting with some great characters.

I nominate The Witches of Moonshyne Manor