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WT Sharpe 01-20-2015 12:56 AM
February 2015 Book Club Nominations
 
MobileRead Book Club
February 2015 Nominations

Help us select the book that the MobileRead Book Club will read for February, 2015.

The nominations will run through midnight EST January 31 or until 10 books have made the list. The poll will then be posted and will remain open for five days.

Book selection category for February is:

Romance

In order for a book to be included in the poll it needs THREE NOMINATIONS (original nomination, a second and a third).

How Does This Work?
The Mobile Read Book Club (MRBC) is an informal club that requires nothing of you. Each month a book is selected by polling. On the last week of that month a discussion thread is started for the book. If you want to participate feel free. There is no need to "join" or sign up. All are welcome.

How Does a Book Get Selected?
Each book that is nominated will be listed in a poll at the end of the nomination period. The book that polls the most votes will be the official selection.

How Many Nominations Can I Make?
Each participant has 3 nominations. You can nominate a new book for consideration or nominate (second, third) one that has already been nominated by another person.

How Do I Nominate a Book?
Please just post a message with your nomination. If you are the FIRST to nominate a book, please try to provide an abstract to the book so others may consider their level of interest.

How Do I Know What Has Been Nominated?
Just follow the thread. This message will be updated with the status of the nominations as often as I can. If one is missed, please just post a message with a multi-quote of the 3 nominations and it will be added to the list ASAP.

When is the Poll?
The poll thread will open at the end of the nomination period, or once there have been 10 books with 3 nominations each. At that time a link to the initial poll thread will be posted here and this thread will be closed.

The floor is open to nominations. Please comment if you discover a nomination is not available as an ebook in your area.


Official choices with three nominations each:

(1) The fault in Our Stars by John Green
Goodreads | Amazon US / Barnes & Noble US / Google Play US / Kobo US / Overdrive UK / Overdrive US
Spoiler:
A medical miracle may have bought Hazel a few years, but she’s still a terminal time bomb, suffering from stage IV cancer. At a support group for her illness, she meets fellow cancer survivor Augustus Waters, a boy who pretends to smoke cigarettes and has a prosthetic leg. With a shared obsession for the novel An Imperial Affliction and a similar sense of sarcasm, the two fall in love, despite their inevitable fate. John Green’s story is honest and hilarious, exposing the fear, anger, and sadness that accompanies a terminal illness.


(2) The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Patricia Clark Memorial Library: ePub / ePub (Complete Works) / Kindle | Feedbooks / Google Play / ManyBooks / Project Gutenberg
Spoiler:
The Age of Innocence (1920) is a novel by Edith Wharton, which won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize. The story occurs among New York City's upper class in the 1870s, before electricity, telephone, and automobiles; when there was a small cluster of old, "aristocratic" Revolutionary War-stock families who ruled New York's social life; when being was better than doing; when occupation and abilities were secondary to blood connections (heredity and family); when reputation and appearances excluded every thing and every one not of one's caste; and when Fifth Avenue was so deserted by nightfall that it was possible to follow Society's comings and goings, by spying who went to what house.


(3) Ali and Nino: A Love Story by Kurban Said
Goodreads
Spoiler:
First published in Vienna in 1937, this classic story of romance and adventure has been compared to Dr. Zhivago and Romeo and Juliet. Its mysterious author was recently the subject of a feature article in the New Yorker, which has inspired a forthcoming biography. Out of print for nearly three decades until the hardcover re-release last year, Ali and Nino is Kurban Said's masterpiece. It is a captivating novel as evocative of the exotic desert landscape as it is of the passion between two people pulled apart by culture, religion, and war.


(4) Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Amazon Australia
Spoiler:
As a child, Kathy – now thirty-one years old – lived at Hailsham, a private school in the scenic English countryside where the children were sheltered from the outside world, brought up to believe that they were special and that their well-being was crucial not only for themselves but for the society they would eventually enter. Kathy had long ago put this idyllic past behind her, but when two of her Hailsham friends come back into her life, she stops resisting the pull of memory.

And so, as her friendship with Ruth is rekindled, and as the feelings that long ago fueled her adolescent crush on Tommy begin to deepen into love, Kathy recalls their years at Hailsham. She describes happy scenes of boys and girls growing up together, unperturbed – even comforted – by their isolation. But she describes other scenes as well: of discord and misunderstanding that hint at a dark secret behind Hailsham’s nurturing facade. With the dawning clarity of hindsight, the three friends are compelled to face the truth about their childhood–and about their lives now.


(5) Latakia by JF Smith
Amazon Australia / SmashWords
Spoiler:
Matthew likes his life in Richmond. He has his friends and his softball and his volunteer work. And he has a very good-looking boyfriend, Brian, who he’s been happily dating for over a year now. So what if his friends tend to question just how good his boyfriend is, and so what if Brian tends to have inexplicable mood swings. And so what if Brian seems to invite Matt’s suspicions on occasion. If he just shows a little faith and trust, he’ll appreciate what he has with Brian the way he should. Right?

But suddenly, Matt finds himself in a desperate life-or-death situation on a trip overseas, and he realizes just how much he misses home, and Brian. He’s luckily rescued by a team of US Spec-Ops Forces, only to find out they’re a bunch of bigoted jerks. Worse, a quirk of his situation forces him to spend time with them that he’d rather not. And that’s when he finds out that first impressions can be misleading. When called upon, he steps up when every fiber of his being tells him not to, and discovers something deep inside himself that he didn’t realize was even there. And his life will never be the same. He finds that he can, after all, make some very overdue changes in his own life.

What Matt doesn’t realize is that the bond of brotherhood runs both ways. And he winds up changing the lives of several of the men on that Spec-Ops team as much as they changed his.

All it takes is faith and trust.


(6) Tigers and Devils by Sean Kennedy
Amazon Australia
Spoiler:
The most important things in Simon Murray’s life are football, friends, and film—in that order. His friends despair of him ever meeting someone, but despite his loneliness, Simon is cautious about looking for more. Then his best friends drag him to a party, where he barges into a football conversation and ends up defending the honour of star forward Declan Tyler—unaware that the athlete is present. In that first awkward meeting, neither man has any idea they will change each other's lives forever.

Like his entire family, Simon revels in living in Melbourne, the home of Australian Rules football and mecca for serious fans. There, players are treated like gods—until they do something to fall out of public favour. This year, the public is taking Declan to task for suffering injuries outside his control, so Simon's support is a bright spot.

But as Simon and Declan fumble toward a relationship, keeping Declan's homosexuality a secret from well-meaning friends and an increasingly suspicious media becomes difficult. Nothing can stay hidden forever. Soon Declan will have to choose between the career he loves and the man he wants, and Simon has never been known to make things easy—for himself or for others.


(7) Echoes by Maeve Binchy
Goodreads | Amazon UK / Amazon US / Barnes & Noble UK / Barnes & Noble US / Kobo
Spoiler:
From Goodreads:

"It was sometimes called the echo cave, and if you shouted your question loud enough in the right direction, you got an answer instead of an echo..."
Clare and David--divided as children by a rigid social code that branded her as shanty Irish and him as gentry...brought together as adults by a desire that knew no class, no barriers, only the urgent hunger of two people destined to love--and ready to defy a world determined to keep them apart.

Even at fifteen, David Power knew the echo would answer eleven-year-old Clare O'Brien's dearest wish, to win a school prize. But it was years before Dr. Power's cherished only son saw in the huckster's daughter the answer to his own heart's desire.

Here in Castlebay, perched precariously on the seaside cliffs, the lines between them were clearly drawn. Clare's only hope is to leave the town where time stopped, propelled by scholarships to Dublin, fueled by her own drive and brilliance, far from the insular, gossipy world of Castlebay and those in its thrall... Angela O'Hara, beautiful, isolated, a teacher trapped in the convent school, who risks everything to help Clare escape... Gerry Doyle, the town charmer who finds in Clare the woman he vows to have at any price... Caroline Nolan, the beautiful, rich outsider who comes to plunder...

For Clare, that was before the wild freedom of Dublin, and love. And David. Before fate drove them back to Castlebay, and the past...


(8) Fighting Redemption by Kate McCarthy
Goodreads
Spoiler:
Ryan Kendall is broken. He understands pain. He knows the hand of violence and the ache of loss. He knows what it means to fail those who need you. Being broken doesn’t stop him wanting the one thing he can’t have; Finlay Tanner. Her smile is sweet and her future bright. She’s the girl he grew up with, the girl he loves, the girl he protects from the world, and from himself.


(9) Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Patricia Clark Memorial Library: Kindle | Kobo
Spoiler:
No synopsis provided.


The nominations are now closed.

WT Sharpe 01-20-2015 12:57 AM
February 2015 Book Club Nominations
 
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.

Spoiler:
Australian
Angus Robertson
Booktopia
Borders
Dymocks
Fishpond
Google

Canada
Amazon. Make sure you are logged out. Then go to the Kindle Store. Search for a book. After the search results come up, in the upper right corner of the screen, change the country to Canada and search away.
Google
Sony eBookstore (Upper right corner switch to/from US/CA)

UK
BooksOnBoard (In the upper right corner is a way to switch to the UK store)
Amazon
Foyle's
Google
Penguin
Random House
Waterstones
WH Smith


*** The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton [readerlover, issybird, CRussel]
Patricia Clark Memorial Library: ePub / ePub (Complete Works) / Kindle | Feedbooks / Google Play / ManyBooks / Project Gutenberg
Spoiler:
The Age of Innocence (1920) is a novel by Edith Wharton, which won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize. The story occurs among New York City's upper class in the 1870s, before electricity, telephone, and automobiles; when there was a small cluster of old, "aristocratic" Revolutionary War-stock families who ruled New York's social life; when being was better than doing; when occupation and abilities were secondary to blood connections (heredity and family); when reputation and appearances excluded every thing and every one not of one's caste; and when Fifth Avenue was so deserted by nightfall that it was possible to follow Society's comings and goings, by spying who went to what house.


** The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons [treadlightly, sun surfer]
Goodreads | Amazon US / Kobo CA
Spoiler:
During the summer of 1941 the Metanov family are living a hard life in Leningrad. As the German armies advance their future looks bleak. For Tatiana, love arrives in the guise of Alexander, who harbours a deadly and extraordinary secret.


*** Ali and Nino: A Love Story by Kurban Said [HomeInMyShoes, issybird, sun surfer]
Goodreads
Spoiler:
First published in Vienna in 1937, this classic story of romance and adventure has been compared to Dr. Zhivago and Romeo and Juliet. Its mysterious author was recently the subject of a feature article in the New Yorker, which has inspired a forthcoming biography. Out of print for nearly three decades until the hardcover re-release last year, Ali and Nino is Kurban Said's masterpiece. It is a captivating novel as evocative of the exotic desert landscape as it is of the passion between two people pulled apart by culture, religion, and war.


*** Fighting Redemption by Kate McCarthy [HomeInMyShoes, Lin2412, BelleZora]
Goodreads
Spoiler:
Ryan Kendall is broken. He understands pain. He knows the hand of violence and the ache of loss. He knows what it means to fail those who need you. Being broken doesn’t stop him wanting the one thing he can’t have; Finlay Tanner. Her smile is sweet and her future bright. She’s the girl he grew up with, the girl he loves, the girl he protects from the world, and from himself.


* The Lucky One by Nicholas Sparks [WT Sharpe]
Goodreads | Amazon Canada / Amazon UK / Amazon US / Barnes & Noble / Google Play / Kobo / Overdrive
Spoiler:
From Goodreads:

In his 14th book, bestselling author Nicholas Sparks tells the unforgettable story of a man whose brushes with death lead him to the love of his life.

After U.S. Marine Logan Thibault finds a photograph of a smiling young woman buried in the dirt during his tour of duty in Iraq, he experiences a sudden streak of luck -- winning poker games and even surviving deadly combat. Only his best friend, Victor, seems to have an explanation for his good fortune: the photograph -- his lucky charm.

Back home in Colorado, Thibault can't seem to get the woman in the photograph out of his mind and he sets out on a journey across the country to find her. But Thibault is caught off guard by the strong attraction he feels for the woman he encounters in North Carolina - Elizabeth, a divorced mother -- and he keeps the story of the photo, and his luck, a secret. As he and Elizabeth embark upon a passionate love affair, his secret soon threatens to tear them apart -- destroying not only their love, but also their lives.

Filled with tender romance and terrific suspense, The Lucky One is an unforgettable story about the surprising paths our lives often take and the power of fate to guide us to true and everlasting love.


*** The fault in Our Stars by John Green [JSWolf, HomeInMyShoes, Moe The Cat]
Goodreads | Amazon US / Barnes & Noble US / Google Play US / Kobo US / Overdrive UK / Overdrive US
Spoiler:
A medical miracle may have bought Hazel a few years, but she’s still a terminal time bomb, suffering from stage IV cancer. At a support group for her illness, she meets fellow cancer survivor Augustus Waters, a boy who pretends to smoke cigarettes and has a prosthetic leg. With a shared obsession for the novel An Imperial Affliction and a similar sense of sarcasm, the two fall in love, despite their inevitable fate. John Green’s story is honest and hilarious, exposing the fear, anger, and sadness that accompanies a terminal illness.


*** Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë [crich70, Lin2412, fantasyfan]
Patricia Clark Memorial Library: Kindle | Kobo
Spoiler:
No synopsis provided.


*** Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro [SeaWolf, sun surfer, pistoli]
Amazon Australia
Spoiler:
As a child, Kathy – now thirty-one years old – lived at Hailsham, a private school in the scenic English countryside where the children were sheltered from the outside world, brought up to believe that they were special and that their well-being was crucial not only for themselves but for the society they would eventually enter. Kathy had long ago put this idyllic past behind her, but when two of her Hailsham friends come back into her life, she stops resisting the pull of memory.

And so, as her friendship with Ruth is rekindled, and as the feelings that long ago fueled her adolescent crush on Tommy begin to deepen into love, Kathy recalls their years at Hailsham. She describes happy scenes of boys and girls growing up together, unperturbed – even comforted – by their isolation. But she describes other scenes as well: of discord and misunderstanding that hint at a dark secret behind Hailsham’s nurturing facade. With the dawning clarity of hindsight, the three friends are compelled to face the truth about their childhood–and about their lives now.


*** Latakia by JF Smith [SeaWolf, WT Sharpe, BelleZora]
Amazon Australia / SmashWords
Spoiler:
Matthew likes his life in Richmond. He has his friends and his softball and his volunteer work. And he has a very good-looking boyfriend, Brian, who he’s been happily dating for over a year now. So what if his friends tend to question just how good his boyfriend is, and so what if Brian tends to have inexplicable mood swings. And so what if Brian seems to invite Matt’s suspicions on occasion. If he just shows a little faith and trust, he’ll appreciate what he has with Brian the way he should. Right?

But suddenly, Matt finds himself in a desperate life-or-death situation on a trip overseas, and he realizes just how much he misses home, and Brian. He’s luckily rescued by a team of US Spec-Ops Forces, only to find out they’re a bunch of bigoted jerks. Worse, a quirk of his situation forces him to spend time with them that he’d rather not. And that’s when he finds out that first impressions can be misleading. When called upon, he steps up when every fiber of his being tells him not to, and discovers something deep inside himself that he didn’t realize was even there. And his life will never be the same. He finds that he can, after all, make some very overdue changes in his own life.

What Matt doesn’t realize is that the bond of brotherhood runs both ways. And he winds up changing the lives of several of the men on that Spec-Ops team as much as they changed his.

All it takes is faith and trust.


*** Tigers and Devils by Sean Kennedy [SeaWolf, Lin2412, Alsicole]
Amazon Australia
Spoiler:
The most important things in Simon Murray’s life are football, friends, and film—in that order. His friends despair of him ever meeting someone, but despite his loneliness, Simon is cautious about looking for more. Then his best friends drag him to a party, where he barges into a football conversation and ends up defending the honour of star forward Declan Tyler—unaware that the athlete is present. In that first awkward meeting, neither man has any idea they will change each other's lives forever.

Like his entire family, Simon revels in living in Melbourne, the home of Australian Rules football and mecca for serious fans. There, players are treated like gods—until they do something to fall out of public favour. This year, the public is taking Declan to task for suffering injuries outside his control, so Simon's support is a bright spot.

But as Simon and Declan fumble toward a relationship, keeping Declan's homosexuality a secret from well-meaning friends and an increasingly suspicious media becomes difficult. Nothing can stay hidden forever. Soon Declan will have to choose between the career he loves and the man he wants, and Simon has never been known to make things easy—for himself or for others.


* The Plum Tree by Ellen Marie Wiseman [drofgnal]
No links provided.
Spoiler:
From Amazon:

A deeply moving and masterfully written story of human resilience and enduring love, The Plum Tree follows a young German woman through the chaos of World War II and its aftermath."Bloom where you're planted," is the advice Christine Bölz receives from her beloved Oma. But seventeen-year-old domestic Christine knows there is a whole world waiting beyond her small German village. It's a world she's begun to glimpse through music, books--and through Isaac Bauerman, the cultured son of the wealthy Jewish family she works for.

Yet the future she and Isaac dream of sharing faces greater challenges than their difference in stations. In the fall of 1938, Germany is changing rapidly under Hitler's regime. Anti-Jewish posters are everywhere, dissenting talk is silenced, and a new law forbids Christine from returning to her job--and from having any relationship with Isaac. In the months and years that follow, Christine will confront the Gestapo's wrath and the horrors of Dachau, desperate to be with the man she loves, to survive--and finally, to speak out.

Set against the backdrop of the German homefront, this is an unforgettable novel of courage and resolve, of the inhumanity of war, and the heartbreak and hope left in its wake.


*** Echoes by Maeve Binchy [Alsicole, BelleZora, ccowie]
Goodreads | Amazon UK / Amazon US / Barnes & Noble UK / Barnes & Noble US / Kobo
Spoiler:
From Goodreads:

"It was sometimes called the echo cave, and if you shouted your question loud enough in the right direction, you got an answer instead of an echo..."
Clare and David--divided as children by a rigid social code that branded her as shanty Irish and him as gentry...brought together as adults by a desire that knew no class, no barriers, only the urgent hunger of two people destined to love--and ready to defy a world determined to keep them apart.

Even at fifteen, David Power knew the echo would answer eleven-year-old Clare O'Brien's dearest wish, to win a school prize. But it was years before Dr. Power's cherished only son saw in the huckster's daughter the answer to his own heart's desire.

Here in Castlebay, perched precariously on the seaside cliffs, the lines between them were clearly drawn. Clare's only hope is to leave the town where time stopped, propelled by scholarships to Dublin, fueled by her own drive and brilliance, far from the insular, gossipy world of Castlebay and those in its thrall... Angela O'Hara, beautiful, isolated, a teacher trapped in the convent school, who risks everything to help Clare escape... Gerry Doyle, the town charmer who finds in Clare the woman he vows to have at any price... Caroline Nolan, the beautiful, rich outsider who comes to plunder...

For Clare, that was before the wild freedom of Dublin, and love. And David. Before fate drove them back to Castlebay, and the past...


The nominations are now closed.

readerlover 01-20-2015 05:29 AM
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton. It's a classiic that should be in the MR Library. It's available on Google Play, Feedbooks, Amazon, Kobo US, Manybooks.net, Project Gutenberg, the MR Library, etc. Hope this helps someone who might be interested in the book. A book that anyone who likes romance novels or classics might enjoy!

treadlightly 01-20-2015 08:57 AM
I nominate The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons.

Quote:
During the summer of 1941 the Metanov family are living a hard life in Leningrad. As the German armies advance their future looks bleak. For Tatiana, love arrives in the guise of Alexander, who harbours a deadly and extraordinary secret.
Goodreads
Amazon.com
Kobo CA

HomeInMyShoes 01-20-2015 10:51 AM
I'll nominate:

Ali and Nino by Kurban Said.
Quote:
First published in Vienna in 1937, this classic story of romance and adventure has been compared to Dr. Zhivago and Romeo and Juliet. Its mysterious author was recently the subject of a feature article in the New Yorker, which has inspired a forthcoming biography. Out of print for nearly three decades until the hardcover re-release last year, Ali and Nino is Kurban Said's masterpiece. It is a captivating novel as evocative of the exotic desert landscape as it is of the passion between two people pulled apart by culture, religion, and war.
I'm also going to nominate something that ranked in the top Romance books from Goodreads yearly awards in 2013 or 2014. I've picked:

Fighting Redemption by Kate McCarthy.
Quote:
Ryan Kendall is broken. He understands pain. He knows the hand of violence and the ache of loss. He knows what it means to fail those who need you. Being broken doesn’t stop him wanting the one thing he can’t have; Finlay Tanner. Her smile is sweet and her future bright. She’s the girl he grew up with, the girl he loves, the girl he protects from the world, and from himself.

WT Sharpe 01-20-2015 07:19 PM
This looks interesting, and as the 1½ thousand people who gave it an average of 4½ stars on Amazon attest, a whole lot of people seem to think so as well. I therefore nominate The Lucky One by Nicholas Sparks.

From Goodreads:

Quote:
In his 14th book, bestselling author Nicholas Sparks tells the unforgettable story of a man whose brushes with death lead him to the love of his life.

After U.S. Marine Logan Thibault finds a photograph of a smiling young woman buried in the dirt during his tour of duty in Iraq, he experiences a sudden streak of luck -- winning poker games and even surviving deadly combat. Only his best friend, Victor, seems to have an explanation for his good fortune: the photograph -- his lucky charm.

Back home in Colorado, Thibault can't seem to get the woman in the photograph out of his mind and he sets out on a journey across the country to find her. But Thibault is caught off guard by the strong attraction he feels for the woman he encounters in North Carolina - Elizabeth, a divorced mother -- and he keeps the story of the photo, and his luck, a secret. As he and Elizabeth embark upon a passionate love affair, his secret soon threatens to tear them apart -- destroying not only their love, but also their lives.

Filled with tender romance and terrific suspense, The Lucky One is an unforgettable story about the surprising paths our lives often take and the power of fate to guide us to true and everlasting love.

issybird 01-20-2015 08:00 PM
Second Age of Innocence and Ali and Nino.

JSWolf 01-20-2015 08:56 PM
I don't think any links should be allowed in the 2nd post unless it's a link to where to get the eBook. The Goodreads links aren't very useful as you cannot get the books linked from there. They are perfectly good in the nomination posts if they are not lumped in with links where to get the eBook.

JSWolf 01-20-2015 08:58 PM
I'm going for something different this time. I'm going to nominate The fault in Our Stars by John Green. It has an average 4.41 (out of 5) stars on Goodreads with 1,285,489 ratings.


Quote:
A medical miracle may have bought Hazel a few years, but she’s still a terminal time bomb, suffering from stage IV cancer. At a support group for her illness, she meets fellow cancer survivor Augustus Waters, a boy who pretends to smoke cigarettes and has a prosthetic leg. With a shared obsession for the novel An Imperial Affliction and a similar sense of sarcasm, the two fall in love, despite their inevitable fate. John Green’s story is honest and hilarious, exposing the fear, anger, and sadness that accompanies a terminal illness.
Links:

Overdrive (US) FREE: https://www.overdrive.com/media/6631...t-in-our-stars

Overdrive (UK) FREE: https://www.overdrive.com/media/8943...t-in-our-stars

Kobo (US) $9.99: http://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebo...in-our-stars-2

Barnes & Noble (US) $6.99: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-...=9781101569184

Google Play (US) $2.99: https://play.google.com/store/books/...d=UzqVUdEtLDwC

Amazon (US) $2.99: http://www.amazon.com/Fault-Our-Star...t+in+our+stars

Alsicole 01-21-2015 05:42 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by JSWolf (Post 3029824)
I don't think any links should be allowed in the 2nd post unless it's a link to where to get the eBook. The Goodreads links aren't very useful as you cannot get the books linked from there. They are perfectly good in the nomination posts if they are not lumped in with links where to get the eBook.
I'd agree. I wanted to nominate one of my favourite ever books only to discover it's not available in any ebook format anywhere. Such a shame.

crich70 01-21-2015 08:18 AM
I nominate Jane Eyre
It's here at MR Kindle Not in epub )format (in English) here but easily converted to epub in Calibre. Or there is an epub copy available at Kobo for .99
Kobo

treadlightly 01-21-2015 10:15 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by JSWolf (Post 3029824)
I don't think any links should be allowed in the 2nd post unless it's a link to where to get the eBook. The Goodreads links aren't very useful as you cannot get the books linked from there. They are perfectly good in the nomination posts if they are not lumped in with links where to get the eBook.
I like the Goodreads link to check the rating of the book at Goodreads as well as other genre categories, in order to determine if I want to second/third the nomination. It could be displayed in a different form (colour?) than the book store/website links.

JSWolf 01-21-2015 10:55 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by treadlightly (Post 3030124)
I like the Goodreads link to check the rating of the book at Goodreads as well as other genre categories, in order to determine if I want to second/third the nomination. It could be displayed in a different form (colour?) than the book store/website links.
Nothing wrong with a Goodreads link in the nomination post. But the second post where the books are listed and the starts and the links, the Goodreads link doe snot belong as you cannot buy the eBook from Goodreads and thus, it's a bogus link there.

WT Sharpe 01-21-2015 11:11 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by JSWolf (Post 3030148)
Nothing wrong with a Goodreads link in the nomination post. But the second post where the books are listed and the starts and the links, the Goodreads link doe snot belong as you cannot buy the eBook from Goodreads and thus, it's a bogus link there.
I see what you mean. Most of the Goodreads links are to paper copies of books by default, it seems. That's the reason I changed the Goodreads link in my own nomination to other links. Still, if people list the Goodreads link in their post, I'll put it in the nomination list.

PS: Some typos are funnier than others! :D

HomeInMyShoes 01-21-2015 12:08 PM
I'll second The Fault in our Stars. It seems modern and romantic. I believe that is my last nomination.

I like the GoodReads link. It gives a synopsis and reasonable reviews as well as a breakdown of how a book is categorized. We all have our own stores we frequent for buying and we have people from all over here. Why just US and UK links JSWolf? What do you have against the frozen hinterland? :rofl:

I usually base my vote on synopsis and library availability. I am not averse to buying a title, but my budget is limited in comparison to many.

Dazrin 01-21-2015 12:47 PM
No nomination, but I do like the GR links. It makes it easier to check reviews and GR does have links to most of the major online stores to check for availability if the nominator didn't provide that. At the very least it gives a quick way to find out if the book is easily available as an ebook for a large portion of us (in the US at least).

JSWolf 01-21-2015 01:58 PM
I did put a Goodreads link in my nomination as well as listing how many average stars with how many nominations. So there is a GR link where it belongs.

As for other countries, I only did the UK Overdrive because I found it when looking for the US listing. If anyone else wants to post listings for The Fault in Our Stars in other countries where it can be bought, please do so and they will get added to the 2nd post.

Moe The Cat 01-21-2015 02:24 PM
I will third Jon's choice, The Fault In Our Stars.

pistoli 01-21-2015 02:38 PM
The fault in Our Stars ! (been waiting in my huge TBR list)

Dazrin 01-21-2015 03:00 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by JSWolf (Post 3030265)
I did put a Goodreads link in my nomination as well as listing how many average stars with how many nominations. So there is a GR link where it belongs.

As for other countries, I only did the UK Overdrive because I found it when looking for the US listing. If anyone else wants to post listings for The Fault in Our Stars in other countries where it can be bought, please do so and they will get added to the 2nd post.
You did which is great, but your whole post didn't get moved up to post 2. When there are a lot of nominations and comments having to find the original post can be tedious. Plus many times there is supplemental information in later posts such as adding links or a description when the original nominator didn't provide it.

Overall, I like the idea of the GR link in post 2; it doesn't need to be part of the links to purchase, but having it there somewhere is nice. I'm also not sure where the idea that only links to purchase the book (or libraries) belong there came from. "That's the way it has always been done" isn't a good reason for me.

JSWolf 01-21-2015 03:16 PM
*** The fault in Our Stars by John Green [JSWolf, HomeInMyShoes, Moe The Cat]
Goodreads / Amazon US / Barnes & Noble US / Google Play US / Kobo US / Overdrive UK / Overdrive US
Spoiler:
A medical miracle may have bought Hazel a few years, but she’s still a terminal time bomb, suffering from stage IV cancer. At a support group for her illness, she meets fellow cancer survivor Augustus Waters, a boy who pretends to smoke cigarettes and has a prosthetic leg. With a shared obsession for the novel An Imperial Affliction and a similar sense of sarcasm, the two fall in love, despite their inevitable fate. John Green’s story is honest and hilarious, exposing the fear, anger, and sadness that accompanies a terminal illness.


That can be put in post #2.

WT Sharpe 01-21-2015 03:28 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by JSWolf (Post 3030315)
*** The fault in Our Stars by John Green [JSWolf, HomeInMyShoes, Moe The Cat]
Goodreads / Amazon US / Barnes & Noble US / Google Play US / Kobo US / Overdrive UK / Overdrive US
Spoiler:
A medical miracle may have bought Hazel a few years, but she’s still a terminal time bomb, suffering from stage IV cancer. At a support group for her illness, she meets fellow cancer survivor Augustus Waters, a boy who pretends to smoke cigarettes and has a prosthetic leg. With a shared obsession for the novel An Imperial Affliction and a similar sense of sarcasm, the two fall in love, despite their inevitable fate. John Green’s story is honest and hilarious, exposing the fear, anger, and sadness that accompanies a terminal illness.


That can be put in post #2.
Why not put the Goodreads link in the spoiler, as I did in my nomination?

WT Sharpe 01-21-2015 03:47 PM
Check out the 2nd post now, Jon, and let me know what you think. I placed the Goodreads links first and made them magenta to differentiate them from the bookstore and library links, which are in blue. ;)

CRussel 01-21-2015 04:20 PM
Age of Innocence
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by issybird (Post 3029799)
Second Age of Innocence

Third Age of Innocence.

Available for free from the Patricia Clark Memorial Library

Description:
Spoiler:
The Age of Innocence (1920) is a novel by Edith Wharton, which won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize. The story occurs among New York City's upper class in the 1870s, before electricity, telephone, and automobiles; when there was a small cluster of old, "aristocratic" Revolutionary War-stock families who ruled New York's social life; when being was better than doing; when occupation and abilities were secondary to blood connections (heredity and family); when reputation and appearances excluded every thing and every one not of one's caste; and when Fifth Avenue was so deserted by nightfall that it was possible to follow Society's comings and goings, by spying who went to what house.

WT Sharpe 01-21-2015 06:37 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by CRussel (Post 3030348)
Third Age of Innocence.

Available for free from the Patricia Clark Memorial Library

Description:
Spoiler:
The Age of Innocence (1920) is a novel by Edith Wharton, which won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize. The story occurs among New York City's upper class in the 1870s, before electricity, telephone, and automobiles; when there was a small cluster of old, "aristocratic" Revolutionary War-stock families who ruled New York's social life; when being was better than doing; when occupation and abilities were secondary to blood connections (heredity and family); when reputation and appearances excluded every thing and every one not of one's caste; and when Fifth Avenue was so deserted by nightfall that it was possible to follow Society's comings and goings, by spying who went to what house.
Thanks for the link. In addition, I made a quick conversion to ePub of that one.

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...11#post3030411

SeaWolf 01-21-2015 09:08 PM
Been a while since I've been active on here and what better way to get back than some nominations!

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Amazon AU
Spoiler:
As a child, Kathy – now thirty-one years old – lived at Hailsham, a private school in the scenic English countryside where the children were sheltered from the outside world, brought up to believe that they were special and that their well-being was crucial not only for themselves but for the society they would eventually enter. Kathy had long ago put this idyllic past behind her, but when two of her Hailsham friends come back into her life, she stops resisting the pull of memory.

And so, as her friendship with Ruth is rekindled, and as the feelings that long ago fueled her adolescent crush on Tommy begin to deepen into love, Kathy recalls their years at Hailsham. She describes happy scenes of boys and girls growing up together, unperturbed – even comforted – by their isolation. But she describes other scenes as well: of discord and misunderstanding that hint at a dark secret behind Hailsham’s nurturing facade. With the dawning clarity of hindsight, the three friends are compelled to face the truth about their childhood–and about their lives now.


To add some variety I've nominated two books about same-sex romances. :)

Latakia by JF Smith
Amazon AU SmashWords
Spoiler:
Matthew likes his life in Richmond. He has his friends and his softball and his volunteer work. And he has a very good-looking boyfriend, Brian, who he’s been happily dating for over a year now. So what if his friends tend to question just how good his boyfriend is, and so what if Brian tends to have inexplicable mood swings. And so what if Brian seems to invite Matt’s suspicions on occasion. If he just shows a little faith and trust, he’ll appreciate what he has with Brian the way he should. Right?

But suddenly, Matt finds himself in a desperate life-or-death situation on a trip overseas, and he realizes just how much he misses home, and Brian. He’s luckily rescued by a team of US Spec-Ops Forces, only to find out they’re a bunch of bigoted jerks. Worse, a quirk of his situation forces him to spend time with them that he’d rather not. And that’s when he finds out that first impressions can be misleading. When called upon, he steps up when every fiber of his being tells him not to, and discovers something deep inside himself that he didn’t realize was even there. And his life will never be the same. He finds that he can, after all, make some very overdue changes in his own life.

What Matt doesn’t realize is that the bond of brotherhood runs both ways. And he winds up changing the lives of several of the men on that Spec-Ops team as much as they changed his.

All it takes is faith and trust.


Tigers and Devils by Sean Kennedy
Amazon AU
Spoiler:
The most important things in Simon Murray’s life are football, friends, and film—in that order. His friends despair of him ever meeting someone, but despite his loneliness, Simon is cautious about looking for more. Then his best friends drag him to a party, where he barges into a football conversation and ends up defending the honour of star forward Declan Tyler—unaware that the athlete is present. In that first awkward meeting, neither man has any idea they will change each other's lives forever.

Like his entire family, Simon revels in living in Melbourne, the home of Australian Rules football and mecca for serious fans. There, players are treated like gods—until they do something to fall out of public favour. This year, the public is taking Declan to task for suffering injuries outside his control, so Simon's support is a bright spot.

But as Simon and Declan fumble toward a relationship, keeping Declan's homosexuality a secret from well-meaning friends and an increasingly suspicious media becomes difficult. Nothing can stay hidden forever. Soon Declan will have to choose between the career he loves and the man he wants, and Simon has never been known to make things easy—for himself or for others.

JSWolf 01-22-2015 12:22 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by WT Sharpe (Post 3030327)
Check out the 2nd post now, Jon, and let me know what you think. I placed the Goodreads links first and made them magenta to differentiate them from the bookstore and library links, which are in blue. ;)
That looks good and it'll work. Now if anyone goes to Goodreads to find the book, HA! HA! ;)

Lin2412 01-22-2015 12:23 AM
Hello! Can I also join (or is there a specific rule where we need to sign up to nominate?)
I've already read The Fault in Our Stars (but I want to reread it!!) so if I can, I would nominate that, and Tigers and Devils by Sean Kennedy. I've already purchased it a long time ago, but I haven't read it yet.

sun surfer 01-22-2015 01:08 AM
I love Goodreads links. For me it's the absolute best and easiest way to quickly decide if I want to read a book or not - a very good thing when I'm about to vote in a book club poll. It has user-listed genres to get a better idea of exactly the kind of book it is, page counts, reviews and ratings that overall I consider more trustworthy and informative than other large review-collecting internet sites, sometimes more info than the blurb provided here, links to other sites to buy the book, sometimes has text and/or audio samples, etc.

Oh, and I second Never Let Me Go, second The Bronze Horseman and third Ali and Nino.


ETA - Hi, Lin and welcome! Nothing special needed to join - just post your nominations like you did. And when the poll goes up you can vote for whichever options you like.

WT Sharpe 01-22-2015 01:21 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Lin2412 (Post 3030579)
Hello! Can I also join (or is there a specific rule where we need to sign up to nominate?)
I've already read The Fault in Our Stars (but I want to reread it!!) so if I can, I would nominate that, and Tigers and Devils by Sean Kennedy. I've already purchased it a long time ago, but I haven't read it yet.
The Fault in Our Stars has already been nominated, seconded, and given a third. That's all it needs to make it to the actual voting poll. Tigers and Devils has been nominated by SeaWolf, but I gladly added your name as the second. As you have used only one vote in this nomination thread, you have two left, which you can use either to nominate books or second or third books others have nominated.

Welcome to the club!

pistoli 01-22-2015 01:49 AM
Me second vote goes to Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro !

Moe The Cat 01-22-2015 08:41 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by pistoli (Post 3030620)
Me second vote goes to Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro !
I will third Never Let Me Go. Kazuo Isiguro is an excellent author.

JSWolf 01-22-2015 09:00 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by SeaWolf (Post 3030482)
Been a while since I've been active on here and what better way to get back than some nominations!

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Amazon AU
Spoiler:
As a child, Kathy – now thirty-one years old – lived at Hailsham, a private school in the scenic English countryside where the children were sheltered from the outside world, brought up to believe that they were special and that their well-being was crucial not only for themselves but for the society they would eventually enter. Kathy had long ago put this idyllic past behind her, but when two of her Hailsham friends come back into her life, she stops resisting the pull of memory.

And so, as her friendship with Ruth is rekindled, and as the feelings that long ago fueled her adolescent crush on Tommy begin to deepen into love, Kathy recalls their years at Hailsham. She describes happy scenes of boys and girls growing up together, unperturbed – even comforted – by their isolation. But she describes other scenes as well: of discord and misunderstanding that hint at a dark secret behind Hailsham’s nurturing facade. With the dawning clarity of hindsight, the three friends are compelled to face the truth about their childhood–and about their lives now.
I've read this. It drags in a lot of places. I've also tried to watch the movie. The movie was really poorly done (and rather boring). So bad that I was unable to finish it. The book, not wonderful. I was able to finish it though.

pynch 01-22-2015 09:12 AM
Wharton’s The Age of Innocence can also be found in the Complete Works epub, btw.

issybird 01-22-2015 10:03 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by pynch (Post 3030770)
Wharton’s The Age of Innocence can also be found in the Complete Works epub, btw.
...which is a phenomenal tome, my source for all Wharton's Great War books.

issybird 01-22-2015 10:20 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by JSWolf (Post 3029825)
I'm going for something different this time. I'm going to nominate The fault in Our Stars by John Green. It has an average 4.41 (out of 5) stars on Goodreads with 1,285,489 ratings.
I don't read cancer books, but this also is available at Audible for $6.95 in the current sale.

WT Sharpe 01-22-2015 11:00 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Moe The Cat (Post 3030756)
I will third Never Let Me Go. Kazuo Isiguro is an excellent author.
pistoli's vote was the third, so you have that vote back. ;)

WT Sharpe 01-22-2015 11:05 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by pynch (Post 3030770)
Wharton’s The Age of Innocence can also be found in the Complete Works epub, btw.
Thanks for the link. Now added.

Quote:
Originally Posted by issybird (Post 3030813)
I don't read cancer books, but this also is available at Audible for $6.95 in the current sale.
Do you have any idea how long the sale will last?

issybird 01-22-2015 11:18 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by WT Sharpe (Post 3030842)

Do you have any idea how long the sale will last?
Until January 27. Audible is lenient with returns, so one could make a preemptive purchase and return it if it's not picked.

WT Sharpe 01-22-2015 11:32 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by issybird (Post 3030854)
Until January 27. Audible is lenient with returns, so one could make a preemptive purchase and return it if it's not picked.
Thanks, issybird.


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