You can count on me joining you this month (and not forgetting to comment afterwards as I did last year :smack:) if the book is one of those (these???):
Cannery Row, Shōgun, Under the Volcano.
If another book is picked, I think I'll read Cannery Row in April anyway.

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The good news for me is that Cannery Row is literally on my TBR pile for this year. I have a table where I've stacked all the paperbacks I want to read this year and Cannery Row is at the top of the pile.

Hemmingway is also there (this year and next), but not this specific title. I'm very interested though as the title reminds me of my Dad. He would always quote those lines from Donne's poem:

I can always afford to dive into another Wells novel and I haven't read The Invisible Man so that was a no-brainer and Treasure Island? Yep.

Great selections this month.

Does anyone have a link for this? I didn't see it at http://www.gutenberg.ca/.

I found a couple of read-online sites; better than that, both Kobo and Amazon have it for 99¢ and I assume it's couponable at Kobo.

The place to look for PD books in Canada is Faded Page. They currently only have 5 of the Hemingway books, and For Whom the Bell Tolls isn't one of them, yet.

The main work of proofreading and preparing the ebooks is done by DPC (Distributed Proofreaders of Canada), and they haven't gotten to it yet. (Project Gutenberg in Canada pulls from a variety of sources, but the primary Canadian one is FadedPage. )

There are, however, inexpensive versions on both Amazon and Kobo.

They have most of Hemingway's other books at my library with the exception of For Whom the Bell Tolls. :(

Thanks for the link. :2thumbsup

And while we're talking about PD books, the folks at DPC can always use more volunteer proofreaders. They have a huge backlog of books, and if you have time, they can use the help. You don't need to know much about proofreading, and you don't have to commit to a huge amount of time, but if you think what they're trying to do is valuable, and you have any time at all, consider joining. (There are similar efforts in other countries, but Canada's is one of the better organized and especially important because we're a Life+50 country.)

True, but I've read it and based on the posts here it's not available at the PD sites (although it is indeed cheap to buy in Canada).

With the dreaded (I tried and failed to read this last year) Cannery Row in the lead I'll have to do strategic non-Steinbeck voting so Hemingway might get a vote anyway. :devilish:

Hey! Stop that!!!

;)

I didn't vote for Cannery Row since I've probably read it a dozen times over many years, but today I am delighted that it is leading, and I'm ready to read it again. I just spent a happy day on Cannery Row in Monterey, California where the buildings mostly still exist that were described by Steinbeck. Here are photos I snapped today of three historical markers and a bust of Steinbeck that some may find interesting.

April 2015 Book Club Vote
 

On my daily walk with Norton today I finished an audiobook version of Well's The Invisible Man. It was a thoroughly entertaining adventure that I don't think anyone would regret reading, but I'm not sure how much discussion it world generate. On the other hand, it is fun to speculate what each of us might do if we were in the title character's predicament.

Excellent! Love that photo with the locations pointed out. I guess I didn't realize they were are REAL. I just assumed he'd taking liberties, but apparently not.

I did know about Ed Ricketts/Doc and assumed the Cannery was real, but beyond that I figured it was mostly fiction....
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I've walked the streets many times, and much of it is still there, though it has been "renovated" (cleaned up) for the tourist trade. Still, you can see the bones of a working coast with canneries and the businesses to support them and their workers.

I honestly didn't see a single book in this month's list that I wouldn't want to read.