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Fantasy | 8 | 25.81% | |
Young Adult | 10 | 32.26% | |
Free For All | 10 | 32.26% | |
Philosophy | 8 | 25.81% | |
Biography/Memoir | 9 | 29.03% | |
Humor | 9 | 29.03% | |
MobileRead Authors | 8 | 25.81% | |
Short Stories | 10 | 32.26% | |
Horror | 11 | 35.48% | |
Patricia Clark Memorial Library (MobileRead Library) | 15 | 48.39% | |
Planes, Trains and Automobiles (and boats) | 8 | 25.81% | |
Science | 14 | 45.16% | |
Modern Literature | 8 | 25.81% | |
Classics | 11 | 35.48% | |
Mythology | 14 | 45.16% | |
Speculative Fiction | 8 | 25.81% | |
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03-06-2013, 11:55 AM | #31 |
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Yes, hopefully one of those will either win, or force a tie with Patricia Clark Memorial Library.
Yet another SciFi book. We already have a SciFi month set for August, Travel Adventure ended up being SciFi instead, and now possibly October? |
03-06-2013, 12:45 PM | #32 |
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03-06-2013, 04:56 PM | #33 |
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Every month can have something to do with Science Fiction. Even non-fiction can be related. So let's have 2014 be fully Science Fiction related.
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03-06-2013, 05:05 PM | #34 |
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I'm a pretty big Science Fiction fan, but let's not please. I like that this club introduces me to new things and sometimes gets me to try something I otherwise wouldn't have. You could always start a separate Science Fiction Book Club.
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Science Fiction is good for those months where the selection is usually lousy otherwise such as Romance, Horror and Classics.
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Not in the general sense. But it's because of what's been picked. Out of the three, horror is the worst as not a singe book picked has been scarey. Not even in the slightest bit. The books picked have been picked because they've been free, cheap, or short. Scarey has never actually entered into it.
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While absolutely true, I was gravitating towards it because I thought if I blended sci-fi with horror, I might be able to get a horror selection in for October.
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Oooh...mythological science. I sense a political debate coming up if those two tie.
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That's just chemistry. Flawed chemistry, but chemistry nonetheless.
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Go Science. Science is so multifaceted that there's sure to be something of interest to anyone who has so much as a thimbleful of curiosity as to why things are and how they work. Today's example: An interesting Reuters article currently on the New Scientist website: "Deep Carbon Observatory Spotlights 'Zombie' Microbes Far Below Earth's Surface."
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Tom sold me on Science as a category during the nominations (although I'd be OK with Mythology too).
To give folks an example of the range this category might cover here's a list of the top Science books of 2012 according to ScienceBlogs... Quote:
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^ looks like we have all our nominations right there! Interesting post, and it has swayed my opinion on the best category.
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