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View Poll Results: Which award winning book shall we read for June 2013? | |||
Memoirs of a Fox Hunting Man by Siegfried Sassoon | 9 | 18.37% | |
The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson | 9 | 18.37% | |
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt | 16 | 32.65% | |
The Tea Lords by Hella Haasse | 14 | 28.57% | |
Among Others by Jo Walton | 13 | 26.53% | |
More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon | 6 | 12.24% | |
The Giver by Lois Lowry | 15 | 30.61% | |
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami | 11 | 22.45% | |
American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson by Joseph J. Ellis | 8 | 16.33% | |
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri | 7 | 14.29% | |
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05-22-2013, 03:41 PM | #1 |
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June 2013 Book Club Vote
June 2013 MobileRead Book Club Vote
Help us choose a book as the June 2013 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 multiple-choice: you may cast a vote for each book that appeals to you. We will start the discussion thread for this book on June 20th. Select from the following Official Choices with three nominations each: • Memoirs of a Fox Hunting Man by Siegfried Sassoon No links provided. Spoiler:
• The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson Amazon US / Amazon UK / Barnes & Noble Spoiler:
• The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt Amazon US / Barnes & Noble / Sony Reader Store Spoiler:
• The Tea Lords by Hella Haasse Amazon UK / Amazon CA / Booktopia AU Spoiler:
• Among Others by Jo Walton No links provided. Spoiler:
• More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon Amazon UK / Amazon US / Kobo Spoiler:
• The Giver by Lois Lowry Amazon US / Barnes & Noble / Kobo Spoiler:
• Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami Amazon US / Barnes & Noble Spoiler:
• American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson by Joseph J. Ellis Amazon US / Barnes & Noble / Sony Reader Store Spoiler:
• Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri Amazon US / Barnes and Noble / Chapters (Canada) Spoiler:
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05-22-2013, 04:33 PM | #2 |
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Interesting selection to choose from this month.
"The Giver" sounds a bit like a novel adapted from Ursula LeGuin's "The Ones Who Walked Away From Omelas", which was a Hugo winner itself in 1974. Not sure I am up for that type of work again this year though, even if it is intended as a children's book. I do have 2 others on hold at my library though, nice short wait times on them too! |
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05-22-2013, 04:57 PM | #3 |
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So I am not keen on any of the SciFi/Fantasy choices and also for the moment have had enough of stories about English gentry of the late 19th to early 20th Centuries.
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05-22-2013, 05:05 PM | #4 |
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05-22-2013, 05:21 PM | #5 |
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The only book that seems to be catching my fancy is the one I've read. Very good books so yes, I'm voting for The Other. Trying to decide what else to vote for if any.
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05-22-2013, 05:30 PM | #7 |
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05-22-2013, 06:07 PM | #8 |
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Here are some Links for More Than Human:
Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_no...ore+Than+Human Amazon.co.uk: http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_...ore+Than+Human Kobo: http://www.kobobooks.com/search/sear...ore+Than+Human And it is also in the iTunes Book store. Last edited by fantasyfan; 05-22-2013 at 06:10 PM. |
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What a name is "Hella"! If only her last name were "Goode".
I'm interested in The Giver, but I went to read more about it on its Amazon page and found that it is the first in a series. Series, series everywhere. With The Giver I was looking forward to a single book with a complete resolution, but still, I am considering whether to vote for it and either way I will read it if it wins. I was also going to vote for The Swerve but then I went to read more about it on its Amazon page and came across some critical reviews including an excellent one by "Harold Kirkpatrick" here, which includes this paragraph: Quote:
It is a shame. The book sounds interesting and some commenters say that despite the bias of his premise, there are still good stories and historical anecdotes in the book that are well worth reading, but I don't know now if I'll read it if it wins. I'm not a fan of slanted history in non-fiction. If I do I read it I may spend the book thinking about which things he may be overemphasising and wondering which other important things he may have left out. |
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05-22-2013, 11:30 PM | #11 |
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Well, I'm in trouble. I would read everyone of these books. I am now thinking of the best strategy to vote, if there is any......
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05-22-2013, 11:51 PM | #12 |
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Well - no surprise that I didn't vote for the non-fiction. I also balked at the short story collection this time.
Soooooooooo - it was Sci-Fi/Fantasy for me with Among Others, The Giver and More Than Human. Two of them are already on my TBR list for this year and the other one I'll stretch for because I've never tried a Sturgeon story before. There were a couple of others that looked good, but I had to be realistic about what I'd shuffle my reading plans for. |
05-22-2013, 11:51 PM | #13 |
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I haven't read The Giver, but those who have say it works as a standalone novel even though it's part of a series, much like A Wrinkle in Time can be read as a standalone even though it's also part of a series.
Here are some links for The Giver: Amazon US: http://www.amazon.com/The-Giver-Quar...dp/B003MC5N28/ Barnes & Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/give...=9780547345901 Kobo: http://www.kobobooks.com/ebook/The-G...IDg/page1.html |
05-23-2013, 04:52 AM | #14 |
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Nothing really made med go "YES" this month. I dod vote for The Giver and I've put myself on the library wait list for it. A couple of people before me though, so doubtfdul that I'll get in time. Keeping my fingers crossed though!
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Interesting. But one could ask, "Who is Harold Kirkpatrick?" He may know what he is talking about ... or he may not. Greenblatt's credentials according to Wikipedia are: Greenblatt was born in Boston and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts. After graduating from Newton North High School, he was educated at Yale University (B.A. 1964, M.Phil 1968, Ph.D. 1969) and Pembroke College, Cambridge (B.A. 1966, M.A. 1968). Greenblatt has since taught at University of California, Berkeley and Harvard University. He was Class of 1932 Professor at Berkeley (he became a full professor in 1980) and taught there for 28 years before taking a position at Harvard University, where in 1997 Greenblatt became the Harry Levin Professor of Literature. He was named John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities in 2000. Greenblatt is considered "a key figure in the shift from literary to cultural poetics and from textual to contextual interpretation in U.S. English departments in the 1980s and 1990s."[3] Greenblatt is a permanent fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin. As a visiting professor and lecturer, Greenblatt has taught at such institutions as the École des Hautes Études, the University of Florence, Kyoto University, the University of Oxford and Peking University. He was a resident fellow at the American Academy of Rome, and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and has been president of the Modern Language Association. I think I'll be happy to take a punt with Greenblatt, and I voted for "The Swerve". (Edit: And also for Sassoon and Johnson.) Last edited by Bookpossum; 05-23-2013 at 07:39 AM. |
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