The Next Best Book Club discussion

This will be kind of like a book take on the show, The Marriage Ref (where a couple's tiff is discussed by a celeb panel and then a final decision is made by "The Marriage Ref"). I have so many books on my TBR list and each time I finish (or get to the last few pages of) a book I start the dreaded task of deciding on my next read.

Here we will list our soon-to-finish book and then 2 (or 3 tops) books next on our list and let our fellow book enthusiasts decide what our next read will be - final decision and we must stick with it!

I'll start - I'm ending The Postmistress and have to decide between:
1. Wench: A Novel by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
2. Moloka'i by Alan Brennert
3. Mudbound by Hillary Jordan

Lori, please let me know if this should be in the "Recommendations" folder instead (and mover it if so). Cheers!

I love this idea!

Maybe there should be a time limit - like 1 day?

Wench! Because I've had it on my TBR and I'm wondering how it'll turn out!

Thoughts on Postmistress?

Moloka'i. I've heard nothing but good about this one and his other book, Honolulu. Perhaps I'll be incited to start Moloka'i as well. It's been on my TBR list for awhile.

Tanja wrote: "Wench! Because I've had it on my TBR and I'm wondering how it'll turn out!

Thoughts on Postmistress?"
It's a quick read (when not under the unwanted brain slur of pain medication) - very gripping in areas, a little predictable in others and sad at times, but I have a few last pages to go in order for the whole thing to be wrapped up. I could see it easily made into a movie. Its characters are pretty different, when compared to other similar novels - not good or bad though.

OK, 1 vote for Wench!

1 vote for Moloka'i, 1 for Wench.

Darn it, now I really want to read Moloka'i and Mudbound. My TBR is getting insane!

But I'm going to have to vote for Mudbound, as it's the one I would read first. :o)

Haha - thanks for the vote! And so now we have 1 vote for each choice. I need some tie-breakers!

I vote for Wench.

Yeah - 2 for Wench. I hope for a final decision by tomorrow, by The Book Ref!

I vote for Mudbound - I've read it and really really enjoyed it!

2 Wench, 2 Mudbound and 1 Moloka'i. Final decision will be end of Sat. (just in time as I finished The Postmistress last night).

This is a neat idea! I haven't read any of the 3 books on your read-next list but they all sound great. My vote is for Moloka'i.

This is such a great idea! I would say Wench, just becuase I really want to know what you would think of it, then I can decide if I should add it to my TBR list. teehee, sorry, alterior motive. I am so excited to read the Postmistress as well!

I haven't read any of those, but Moloka'i is the one I would pick to read out of the three.

LOL! F1Wild, you've got your hands full with this decision. Let us know which one you choose.

Hmmm, maybe I should have only had 2 choices 'cause now I have a tie between Wench & Moloka'i, both with 3 votes.

Decision at midnight Pacific.

I vote Moloka'i! I haven't read it yet but I'm thinking of moving it to the top of my TBR pile.

I vote Moloka'i for having fewer blurb cliches. (You're going to tell us if we chose good, right?)

Moloka'i by Alan Brennert WINS with 5 votes (to Wench's 3 & Mudbound's 2)!

Thank you for all who chose Moloka'i and know the other 2 are still on the TBR list.

I start my spring break on Saturday, and I've got to get through at least a few owned TBRs. I'm a terrible chooser, so please choose for me!

Category: contemporary-ish reads with terribly generic summaries
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Oh I would have to read Off the Record: A Novel mostly because I secretly have the fantasy that this happened to me!!! I vote for this one!

I would read Off the Record:A Novel.

Hmmm, none of them are exactly the genre I would normally read, but I think Off the Record sounds very interesting, but so does Nailed. I may have to vote for Nailed.

None of them are something that I'd generally read either, but nailed sounds ok. I'll put in a vote for Nailed.

Oh boy, a tie, so I went with Off the Record for getting two votes first! (It didn't live up to the premise.)

Historical fiction-ish: (I got to pack away another TBR before I un-guilty enough to make a trip to the library)

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Kaion, I'd go with The Lazarus Project. That's only because I went to a reading of Hemon's and enjoyed it. I haven't gotten around to reading anything by him yet, but I think I'll like him.

I didn't like Daughter of Fortune very much. I don't know anything about the other two but I vote for The Lazerus Project, based on name coolness.

The Lazarus Project it is!

OK, I'm ready for another decision as I'm nearly finished with by Dolen Perkins-Valdez. I've decided to go back to a love of mine and read in the Asian genre again, but cannot decide. Please help by voting. My three possibilities are:
1. My Splendid Concubine by Lloyd Lofthouse, forward by Anchee Min.
2. Soul Mountain by Gao Xingjian
3. Sushi for One? by Camy Tang

I read Soul Mountain several years ago. I'd say go with that one. It's one that I actually appreciated more later. Like I think I thought it was okay when I read it, but I think about it now with stronger feelings about it.

That's one for Soul Mountain.

I second Soul Mountain.

Soul Mountain

OK, I will read Soul Mountain by Gao Xingjian!! Just in time, too - as I cannot fathom a night without a read!! Cheers for the help!!