The Next Best Book Club discussion

Please read the rules for nominating BEFORE you create your post!! And Check our bookshelves to be sure you are not nominating something we have already read as a group!

We will have two catagories this month:
Cat1- Regular Fiction/Non-Fiction
Cat2- Under 200 pages


Only ONE nomination per person.
If you nominate a book for catagory 1, you CANNOT nominate a book for catagory 2, and visa versa.

Please be sure to post the title, author, and the catagory it belongs to.

If your post does not have those three things, it will not be counted.

Are you ready?
I will accept nominations through Monday evening. If we get tons of nominations, I may pull the plug on it a little early, so get them in as soon as you can!

Once I close nominations I will create the polls and let you know when it is time to vote!

Hit us with your best noms!

I should have posted this two days ago, but completely forgot! Sorry!

Cat. 2: Notes from Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky

Category 2

A Patch of Blue by Elizabeth Kata 144 pages.

Cat1 - When Christ and His Saints Slept by Sharon Kay Penman

Cat 1: 1776 by David McCullough

cat 1

The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

Ooooo, Stargirl or The Little Prince... hard decision time...

Cat 2: Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli

The Birth of the People's Republic of Antarctica: A Novel by John Calvin Batchelor (fiction) for cat 1



Born Into Light by Paul Samuel Jacobs (YA SF) for cat 2

Cat. 2 The Stranger by Albert Camus.

Catergory #2 Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (197pgs)

Ruby wrote: "The Birth of the People's Republic of Antarctica: A Novel by John Calvin Batchelor (fiction) for cat 1



Born Into Light by Paul Samuel Jacobs (YA SF) for cat 2"

Hi Ruby, you are only allowed one nomination. Your post will not be counted until you edit your post.

Ok, now for my nomination...

Cat 1: The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer

How about: Cat 2 Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead

I have been wanting to get to this one for a while!

Cat 2 Hotel Du Lac

Cat. 1 - The Street of a Thousand Blossoms by Gail Tsukiyama

Cait and Matthew, thumbs up for your nominations. :) Oh, and Bridgit too. Wait, now I feel like I'm implicitly insulting everyone else. Hell.

Son of a bitch, Hemingway's Moveable Feast comes in at 207 pages. Very inconsiderate of him.

Nominate it for Cat.1 then we can read two short books this month, Alex!

I'm going to nominate Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman for Cat. 2.

Cat 2 - The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis

Fine, Cat 1: A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway. I'm reading it next month anyway, so I might as well drag some of you suckers along.

Maus is so awesome.

Cat 2 Cannery Row by John Steinbeck

Cat1. Purge by Sofi Oksanen

Lori, I just noticed some editions of my nomination go over 200 pages. What's our ruling on this: all editions < 200 pages? first edition? most common edition? any edition (is this fair for books with many many editions and only one or two which happen to be under 200)?

Alex wrote: "Cait and Matthew, thumbs up for your nominations. :) Oh, and Bridgit too. Wait, now I feel like I'm implicitly insulting everyone else. Hell.

Son of a bitch, Hemingway's Moveable Feast comes in..."

Thanks, Alex

Ruby. Shae. and Donna,

Your nominations cannot be accepted as they are. Please revisit the rules and edit them so they will be counted in the final list.

thanks!

Kaion, We have to use our better judgement with that. If the bulk of the publications appear to be over 200, we should not accept/nominate it.

eBooks cannot be counted as a publication. View strictly by paperback, and we should be ok.

Bridgit wrote: "How about: Cat 2 Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead

I have been wanting to get to this one for a while!"

I second! I have been dying to read this! (No pun intended.)

Cat 2: The Wasp Factory by Iain M. Banks

Cat: 1 Brooklyn-Colm Tóibín-262 pages.

I thought about nominating that too, Les. Nice choice!

Cat 2: Parnassus on Wheels by Christopher Morley (190 pp)

Cat 2: The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (86 pgs)

Cat 1: Anjan by Lárus Einarsson

How about The Passage by Cronin. It's a very good Sci/Fi horror novel about 800 pages in length. It definitely would take the month of July to read it.:D
It would definitely have to be category 1-it's got 766 pages in it. But it is good.

Cat 2: The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe, his one and only novel

Betsy, don't forget to add the category your nomination is for.

Liz wrote: "Betsy, don't forget to add the category your nomination is for."

Thanks Liz -it's category 1 for Justin Cronin's The Passage. Sci/Fi

Betsy wrote: "How about The Passage by Cronin. It's a very good Sci/Fi horror novel about 800 pages in length. It definitely would take the month of July to read it.:D
It would definitely have to be category 1-..."

I am currently reading this book. It is huge but it is easy to read. Very good.

Category 1

A Heart to Mend by Myne Whitman [image error] - 240 pages. Romantic suspense.

Oh decisions, decisions.

Cat. 1

Still Alice by Lisa Genova

Lori wrote: "Ruby. Shae. and Donna,

Your nominations cannot be accepted as they are. Please revisit the rules and edit them so they will be counted in the final list.

thanks!"

Fixed it! See post 16.

Cat. 1 Unwind by Neal Shusterman

Cat. 1 - Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

Okay,this isn't the place,but how do you get those neat bookcovers to show up on your post? :D Betsy

Go to add book/author on the top right of the comment box. At the bottom left of the pop up window there will be an option to pick 'link' or 'cover'.

I'm gonna wrap this up tonite, so get those last minute nominations in.

Cat. 2 Tinkers by Paul Harding - 192 pages.

So here is the list - Polls will be up shortly.

Cat1:
When Christ and His Saints Slept - Sharon Kay Penman
1776 - David McCullough
The House of the Scorpion - Nancy Farmer
The Street of a Thousand Blossoms - Gail Tsukiyama
A Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemingway
Purge - Sofi Oksanen
Brooklyn - Colm Tóibín
Anjan - Lárus Einarsson
The Passage - Justin Cronin
A Heart to Mend - Myne Whitman
Still Alice - Lisa Genova
Unwind - Neal Shusterman
Howl's Moving Castle - Diana Wynne Jones

Cat2:
Notes from Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky
A Patch of Blue - Elizabeth Kata
Stargirl - Jerry Spinelli
The Stranger - Albert Camus
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
The Stepford Wives - Ira Levin
Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History - Art Spiegelman
The Screwtape Letters - C.S. Lewis
Cannery Row - John Steinbeck
The Wasp Factory - Iain M. Banks
Parnassus on Wheels - Christopher Morley
The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket - Edgar Allan Poe
Tinkers - Paul Harding
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead - Tom Stoppard
Hotel Du Lac - Anita Brookner


If you do not see your nomination, it is either because you nominated a book that was already a group read, nominated two books instead of one, or failed to mark your catagory.

THose of you who forgot to include the author in your posts - you were spared this time. The nomination list wasnt very long, and you caught me in a giving mood :)

In the past, those were not accepted either.

Polls will go up shortly. If I can get motivated to posted them. Or tomorrow morning.

Cat 1
I don't think I'll be able to finish The Passage by next month so I'll vote for it.

Cat 2
The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin

Rauf, are you voting? The votes don't count here. you have to vote in the polls.... the link is in the upper right corner of the page...

(Since this is my first participated group read...)
How long do the polls usually stay open?