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!

Spring is here!!!

We will have two catagories this month:
Cat1- Regular Fiction/Non-Fiction
Cat2- Spring themed

Spring themed is sort of all-encompassing - it could be a book about the spring season, a character who reinvents themselves, a book with a character who is pregnant or has recently had a baby....


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 Wednesday afternoon. 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!

Cat.1. Kings of the Earth by Jon Clinch

This is going to be the next book I start anyway. I thought others might like it.

Cat 2. - The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton

Lahni wrote: "Cat 2. - The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton"

This has been on my distant radar for a while.

Cat 1.The Murderer's Daughters by Randy Susan Meyers

Cat 1: The Hangman's Daughter by Oliver Pötzsch

Category 2: The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim

Cat 2: The Time-Traveling Fashionista (http://www.amazon.com/Time-Traveling-...) by Bianca Turetsky!

Cat 1: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley

Colleen wrote: "Cat 1.The Murderer's Daughters by Randy Susan Meyers"

I second this! I've been wanting to read it so badly!

Cat. 1. Atomised, by Michel Houellebecq

Cat. 1. Full Dark, No Stars
by Stephen King

Cat 1: City of Thieves by David Benioff.

Read this a while back....excellent! All of her books are a delight!

Hey there guys... are we pooping out on group reads?

This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald for Cat 1

Cat 1:Full Dark, No StarsBy Stephen King

Cat 1: Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang

cat 1 The Sea The Sea by Iris Murdoch

The Forgotten Garden for sure.

Absolutely...Forgotten Garden

Lori, I'm still in for the group reads! In category 1, I nominate The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson.

Hehehe.... I thought there were some out there :)

Cat 2: Uncle Fred in the Springtime by P.G. Wodehouse

Cat 1: Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips

Cat 1: Moloka'i by Alan Brennert

Here's the list ---

Cat 1
Kings of the Earth - Jon Clinch
The Murderer's Daughters - Randy Susan Meyers
The Hangman's Daughter - Oliver Pötzsch
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie - Alan Bradley
Atomised - Michel Houellebecq
Full Dark, No Stars - Stephen King
City of Thieves - David Benioff
This Side of Paradise - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China - Jung Chang
The Sea The Sea - Iris Murdoch
The Finkler Question - Howard Jacobson
Gods Behaving Badly - Marie Phillips
Moloka'i - Alan Brennert


Cat2
The Forgotten Garden - Kate Morton
The Enchanted April - Elizabeth von Arnim
The Time-Traveling Fashionista - Bianca Turetsky
Uncle Fred in the Springtime - P.G. Wodehouse


I will open polls in a short bit, and will post the link to those polls when they are open! Hold on....

DO NOT VOTE ON THE POLL YOU SEE FOR APRIL

goodreads is erroring out and did not save the poll in it's entirety. I have to run out and do not have time to finish it. If anyone votes, I will have to reset the poll when I fix it!

Duh dumb me I voted . I will check back later. Sorry

http://www.goodreads.com/poll/list/12...

Ok, we are all set and ready to go.
Both polls are up. You get one vote per poll.

Voting ends Saturday night.
Winners announced Sunday!

Cat 2: Uncle Fred in the Springtime by P.G. Wodehouse

Mark, are you voting? Or nominating? The polls, where the voting is taking place, is linked in the message above this one.

Oops, my bad! I was a little confused.

Got my vote in!

The winners of the April Group Reads are:

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

&

The Forgotten Garden

Discussion threads will be opened on the first of the month. So you have plenty of time to run out and buy these!!!!

Awesome! Looking forward to reading with everyone. :)

Perfect! I read Kate Morton's Book and I have Sweetness so I am good to go!

I am reading Kate Morton's book and will pick up Sweetness... at the library.

Hi Lori--This is not a vote but I have a copy of The Forgotten Garden but I haven't read it yet. I will add it to my "to read" list. Good choice.

Patricia, The Forgotten Garden was voted in as one of our group reads for April. Now is the perfect time to read it.