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H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald | 4 | 66.67% | |
Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes by Robert Louis Stevenson | 1 | 16.67% | |
Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | 3 | 50.00% | |
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09-05-2015, 02:08 AM | #1 |
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Biographies & Memoirs Vote • September 2015
Help choose the September 2015 selection to read for the MR Literary Club! The poll will be open for three days and a discussion thread will begin shortly after a winner is chosen.
The vote is multiple choice. You may vote for as many or as few as you like. If you vote for the winner it is hoped that you will read the selection with the club and join in the discussion. NEW - When the poll ends, bonus votes will be manually added before determining final results. Basically, anyone who has commented in two out of the last six discussion threads is eligible for bonus votes, and everyone eligible will have any votes cast doubled. Everyone is welcome and encouraged to vote if interested in participating in the literary club whether eligible for bonus votes or not, and anyone interested in bonus votes is encouraged to become eligible as it doesn’t take much. Currently eligible: Spoiler:
In the event of a tie, there will be a one-day non-multiple-choice run-off poll. If the run-off also ends in a tie, then the tie will be resolved in favour of the selection that received all of its initial nominations first. Select from the following works: H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald Spoiler:
Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes by Robert Louis Stevenson Spoiler:
Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Spoiler:
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09-05-2015, 07:25 PM | #2 |
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I voted for the one that is high on my "want to read" list.
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09-05-2015, 07:33 PM | #3 |
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Okay, I've done a very silly thing .... I've voted for St Exupery to get it over the line, and because I would have read it. But, I've only just now realised that I will need to buy it from Kobo CA at $15.79 - which is not a price that I want to pay.
Kobo Au, NZ nor India have the ebook listed. And Amazon Au just has the lesson plans, and they cost $20 ish. I apologise profusely for having voted without checking the price and location of the book first! |
09-05-2015, 11:31 PM | #4 |
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Never mind Lynx-lynx - we've all done it at some time!
ETA: For a while there I thought I would be joining you on the bench to sit this one out if that book won, but have now found that I can get it through my library. Phew! Last edited by Bookpossum; 09-05-2015 at 11:45 PM. |
09-05-2015, 11:56 PM | #5 |
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I agree with the others. No need to apologize. I use my nomination votes for books that I think would make interesting reads for the club. I don't always vote for the same ones in the final vote. I haven't decided what to vote for yet this month. Usually I vote for about 50% of the selections so I don't know whether to vote for 1 or 2 and if 2 which 2! All 3 are available to me through borrowing, and I would like to read all 3 although I know which one I prefer most. |
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09-07-2015, 03:53 PM | #7 |
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H Is For Hawk looks very interesting, but going by the waiting list at the Ottawa Public Library, I will not get it until the spring of 2016
I think Wind, Sand and Stars will be more readily available. Also, I'm a bit intrigued by what Anne Murrow Lindbergh wrote about him (from Lynne Olson - Those Angry Days) after his disappearance and presumed death: '“a sun or a moon or stars which light the earth, which make the whole world and life more beautiful. Now the earth is unlit and it is no longer so beautiful. I go ahead in it stumbling and without joy.”' |
09-08-2015, 02:54 AM | #8 |
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Hope you can get it sooner than that bfisher! Actually it's the same situation with my library, but I really wanted this book anyway as it got such great reviews - and I'm a birdwatcher and photographer. So I'm going to buy a copy from Kobo.
Thanks for nominating it, Bookworm_Girl. |
09-08-2015, 04:41 AM | #9 |
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So I rushed off to Kobo and bought it, only to find that the URL link has some sort of problem and it won't download. Aaargh! I have tried to send a message to Kobo about it, but I have to say their help page is less than totally helpful, so I may or may not hear back.
Meantime I have retrieved my Kobo Touch from the retirement box and am charging it up so that I can (I hope) download the book through the Kobo website. Sigh. |
09-08-2015, 07:27 AM | #10 |
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The result is the same with or without bonus votes so the winner is H is for Hawk! I'll have the discussion thread up a little later.
That's a pain, Bookpossum; I hope you get your download sorted out quickly. ETA - The discussion thread is up. Last edited by sun surfer; 09-08-2015 at 10:37 AM. |
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I did have some luck getting an express lending copy from a suburban branch of the Ottawa library. I'll have to get on with it, as it's a seven day lending period with doubled daily overdue fines |
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09-09-2015, 06:32 PM | #12 |
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That's good.
We managed to solve my problem (after I enquired elsewhere on MR) by downloading the previous version of Adobe Digital Editions. For some reason that works better than the version I had, and it still lets me use the good offices of Apprentice Alf, which a more recent update apparently does not. |
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Glad to hear you got your issues sorted out with Kobo, Bookpossum. And that you were able to get a copy too, bfisher. I was able to get a copy from one of my libraries with no wait.
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09-10-2015, 08:32 AM | #14 |
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Just started it this evening!
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09-10-2015, 01:21 PM | #15 |
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It's a stunning book. I didn't vote for it, but I'm glad that it won the vote.
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