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January 2015 VOTE
MobileRead Book Club
January 2015 VOTE Help us select the next book that the MobileRead Book Club will read for January, 2014. Book selection category for January is: Second Chance There will be no nominations this month. The way Second Chance works is that the poll is comprised of selections that either came in second place or tied for second place during the previous 11 months. 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 http://wtsharpe3.com/Pictures/Multiple-Choice_C3.gif You may cast a vote for each book that appeals to you. Here are the selections you will be considering: • The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger • The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum • Cocaine Blues (Phryne Fisher #1) by Kerry Greenwood • Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein • Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body by Neil Shubin • The Time Machine by H.G. Wells • The Giver by Lois Lowry • To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee • The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells • The Iron King by Maurice Druon • The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde <><><> Descriptions <><><> February: Romance • The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger Zola (Exclusive) Spoiler:
March: Travel/Adventure • The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe Amazon Ca / Amazon US / Barnes & Noble / Kobo Spoiler:
April: Classics • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum Patricia Clark Memorial Library: Oz Omnibus: BBeB/LRF (Illustrated) / ePub / Kindle / Kindle (Illustrated) Spoiler:
May: Mystery/Thriller • Cocaine Blues (Phryne Fisher #1) by Kerry Greenwood Amazon US / Kobo Spoiler:
June: Award Winners • Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein Amazon US Spoiler:
July: Non-fiction • 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:
August: Science Fiction • The Time Machine by H.G. Wells Amazon US / Barnes & Noble / Kobo Spoiler:
September: Banned/Challenged Books • The Giver by Lois Lowry (Tie for 2nd place) Amazon US / Goodreads Spoiler:
• To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Tie for 2nd place) Amazon Ca / Amazon UK / Amazon US / Angus & Robertson / B&N / Google Play / Kobo US / Overdrive Spoiler:
October: Patricia Clark Memorial Library • The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells The Patricia Clark Memorial Library: EPub | Kindle Spoiler:
November: Foreign (originally non-English) • The Iron King by Maurice Druon Amazon US / Kobo CA / Kobo US / Overdrive Spoiler:
December: Short Stories • The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde Patricia Clark Memorial Library: ePub (Complete Works) / LibriVox (Audiobook) / Project Gutenberg (Various Formats) Spoiler:
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Wondering if a particular book is available in your country? The following spoiler contains a list of bookstores outside the United States you can search. If you don't see a bookstore on this list for your country, find one that is, send me the link via PM, and I'll add it to the list.
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Wish that I could cast multiple votes for Your Inner Fish. :D
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Not sure if I'm 2nd or 3rd. lol.
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I'd like to read The Time Traveler's Wife but Zola doesn't give much information on their website on how to use it.
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There were five books on that list for which I didn't vote for no better reason than that I'd already read them: The Time Traveler's Wife, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Cocaine Blues, The War of the Worlds, and The Canterville Ghost.
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You can also read it on Android devices with the Zola app for Android. I suspect, but don't know, that the format is something related to PDF format. The reason I suspect this is because Ms. Niffenegger is a visual artist and much of her well-known animosity to e-books seems to stem from the way eInk e-book readers render visuals. |
Look at that spread. I think this one's going down to the wire.
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I started reading The Iron King earlier this month without realising it'd be a candidate for the second chance month poll. I'm enjoying it.
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The Iron King is on sale now for $2.99 in the Kobo CA store.
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Even though I've read Cocaine Blues, the first book in the wonderful Phryne Fisher series, I voted for it because this would present an excellent reason to do another pass through this series. Plus, since all the books are also available from Audible, read by Stephanie Daniel, this will give me an alternate way to read the series. (I've sampled the narration, and found it excellent, btw.)
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We need one more vote for Starship Troopers.
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Military sci-fi looks to be the least interesting choice.
Well, this sucks. December 23 is no time to have the batteries in the keyboard die only to discover that the family has completely devoured that large stack of AA cells you thought you had. Good thing I have a touchscreen monitor. |
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Oddly enough, I've read To Kill a Mockingbird, but I voted for it. Weirdness. I almost never read things again.
My vested interest is that Heinlein would count as a second chance author as well as a book club read for next year's challenges. :) |
As things are shaping up I wish that I'd cast a vote for To Kill a Mockingbird, though I have read it multiple times. I also read Starship Troopers in my younger Sci-Fi fan days. Typical Heinlein. :rolleyes: Can't say I'm sorry to see a couple of tired old books by H. G. Wells perhaps falling by the wayside.
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Mockingbird is a must read if you haven't, so I get using the club as a club. But having also read it multiple times, I don't care to revisit; I feel as if I wouldn't have anything fresh or interesting to say about it. I'm minded of Scout's comment, "Maycomb was a tired old town." For me, Mockingbird is a tired old book. I'd rather reread Wells. :rolleyes:
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^That's saying a lot. I liked both of the Wells titles, but I don't want to revisit them. I read Mockingbird so long ago (more than 20 years probably) that it would be pretty fresh for me.
I'm a little disappointed that Inner Fish isn't doing better, but then non-fiction always seems to fall by the wayside in the second chance competition. |
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The day before the poll closes and it's looking like we may have an unprecedented four-way run-off. We now have four books tied for first place.
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I only just read Startship Troopers a while ago and loved it. However, I almost wouldn't call it military sci-fi. There was very little action (or at least significantly less than in the movie).
It was almost like an exploration of military psychology with a dose of conservative political views. I ended up buying the paperback for my Dad for Christmas as I thought he'd probably like it. |
Merry Christmas! :xmas:
I just finished The Iron King and in my opinion it has good material for an interesting discussion. I listened to it and Peter Joyce is a good narrator that really fits the story well, if anyone else is interested in the audiobook. Next up on the listening front for me is Sissy Spacek reading To Kill a Mockingbird. Never read it before so I'm excited to finally get this one crossed off. It's serendipity for me if either win. I had already planned to listen to them, the reason being that I'm trying to finish a few subgoals for my reading challenge before the end of the year and one of them is to read club nominees from July-December that didn't win. I needed two more but I have other books taking up my actual reading so I decided to use audiobooks for this which limited my options. Because of that I had to set aside a few others I was considering that didn't have audiobooks but luckily I was interested in these two and they worked perfectly, and to find both are nominees for second chance month is an added bonus! I'm also interested in The Time Machine and haven't ever read it either, so I'm good with any of those three winning. Starship Troopers on the other hand... :D |
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January 2015 VOTE
A FOUR WAY TIE!!!!! I'm away from my computer at the moment, and setting up a poll on an iPad isn't the easiest task in the world, so it will be a while before I post the runoff vote, but barring unforeseen circumstances, it will be posted before midnight tonight, EST. ;) :)
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I'm Baaaaack. And the 3-day run-off poll is here. :)
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There was a lot of interesting stuff going on at the time, including the French Inquisition, a papacy based in France whom Philip had influence over, the persecution of the Knights Templar and scandalous accusations within the royal family. The novel follows a cast of characters from different social strata though they're all in some way related to the central royal plot. |
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