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View Poll Results: Which books are your picks for the July 2014 MobileRead Book Club selection? | |||
Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body by Neil Shubin | 7 | 31.82% | |
Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age by Modris Eksteins | 8 | 36.36% | |
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach | 5 | 22.73% | |
The Glory of Their Times by Lawrence Ritter | 6 | 27.27% | |
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2013 edited by Siddhartha Mukherjee | 5 | 22.73% | |
The Bible Unearthed by Israel Finkelstein & Neil Asher Silberman | 5 | 22.73% | |
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07-01-2014, 12:50 AM | #1 |
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July 2014 Book Club Vote
July 2014 MobileRead Book Club Vote
Help us choose a book as the July 2014 eBook for the MobileRead Book Club. The poll will be open for 5 days. There will be no runoff vote unless the voting results a tie, in which case there will be a 3 day run-off poll. This is a visible poll: others can see how you voted. It is You may cast a vote for each book that appeals to you. We will start the discussion thread for this book on July 20th. Select from the following Official Choices with three nominations each: • Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body by Neil Shubin Amazon Au / Amazon Ca / Amazon UK / Amazon US / Barnes & Noble / Google Play Spoiler:
• Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age by Modris Eksteins Amazon US / Barnes & Noble / Google Play / Kobo Spoiler:
• Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach Amazon US / Barnes & Noble / Google Play (ePub) / Kobo Spoiler:
• The Glory of Their Times by Lawrence Ritter Amazon US / Barnes & Noble Spoiler:
• The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2013 edited by Siddhartha Mukherjee Amazon Ca / Amazon US / Barnes & Noble / Kobo / OverDrive Spoiler:
• The Bible Unearthed by Israel Finkelstein & Neil Asher Silberman Amazon Au / Amazon Ca / Amazon UK / Amazon US Spoiler:
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07-02-2014, 08:01 AM | #2 |
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To be honest, reading a book about War given today's climate for War is not a good idea.
Given the nonsense going on with Hobby Lobby and religious nonsense in the USA, reading about the Bible is a really bad idea as well. Please, don't vote for the war book or the bible book. Neither of which is a good idea. |
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07-02-2014, 08:27 AM | #3 |
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John, I'll have you know that I voted for The Glory of Their Times. However, I would not be adverse to reading any of the selections even the "war" book or the "bible" book. There is always learning for me in any book I read.
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07-02-2014, 08:42 AM | #4 |
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Learning is good. Bad ideas are bad ideas regardless and those two books are very bad ideas to read when we do have other books in the list much more worthy of reading.
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07-06-2014, 05:58 PM | #5 |
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Pretty sure that telling people what they should and should not read is partly what got the general population into both of your above mentioned sensitive situations.
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07-06-2014, 07:34 PM | #6 |
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If someone doesn't speak up, nobody will and then we have an even better chance of getting into trouble.
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07-06-2014, 09:52 PM | #7 |
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Well, we almost got a science book at the last minute, but one of the history books held firm. Anyone want to go for best two-out-of-three?
Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age by Modris Eksteins it is. See everyone on the 20th. |
07-06-2014, 09:57 PM | #8 |
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I'm of the mind we give the two anatomy books a runoff vote.
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07-06-2014, 10:14 PM | #9 |
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I would rather have read either, but Rites of Spring looks promising. I just downloaded a copy.
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07-06-2014, 10:19 PM | #10 |
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If you really want a book about war that's really good Unbroken is it. But I would not recommend a war or religious book as I feel both topics aren't really something I'd want to read right now.
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07-07-2014, 12:46 AM | #11 |
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Unfortunately Rites of Spring isn't available at my library, although Blood Rites (Dresden) and Equal Rites (Discworld) both show as available when I search for it. Those sound more down my alley anyway. My taste in non-fiction is very limited, I am trying to read more, but it is very hit or miss and reading something that I know isn't going to scratch a particular itch doesn't help my chances in finishing it.
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07-13-2014, 02:37 PM | #12 |
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Rites of Spring is couponable at Kobo
FYI This month's selection is very reasonably priced for anyone lucky enough to get a high value code from the Kobo contest.
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