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WT Sharpe 06-23-2016 12:14 AM

The book selection category for July is Free-For-All, or as I like to call it, the Now's the Time to Nominate Books from my TBR List month.

treadlightly 06-23-2016 10:42 AM

I will third The Golem and the Djinni

issybird 06-23-2016 12:01 PM

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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe (Post 3339574)
The book selection category for July is Free-For-All, or as I like to call it, the Now's the Time to Nominate Books from my TBR List month.

Yeah, but I suspect that's not a successful strategy in my case, tempting though the notion is!

On other fronts, I'm seeing a lot of $11.99 nominations, which seems to have missed the sweet spot. Fine for those who are really interested, but a daunting expenditure for the lukewarm. Some are long 'uns, too. Yet Nothing But Blue Skies, which is short, light, summery and only six bucks has been left to languish. Ah, well. You can lead a horse to water, etc.

I'm also going to point out that the fully-nominated City of Djinns is a steal at only $4.99.

CRussel 06-23-2016 12:41 PM

OK, I'll bite. Second for Nothing but Blue Skies. (And even though I'm guilty of supporting an $11.99 nomination, I do agree with you. And I did make sure that it at least was on Overdrive.)

Dazrin 06-23-2016 01:12 PM

Yes, Overdrive availability or inexpensive (<$5) is very important to me, so I won't nominate/second unless it meets that criteria, mostly. Of course Overdrive availability varies.

WT Sharpe 06-23-2016 02:16 PM

Okay, then. My third and last vote goes to third Nothing but Blue Skies.

issybird 06-23-2016 03:29 PM

Thanks, gents! :D

Grey Ram 06-24-2016 01:18 PM

My nominations
 
I second The Case of The Sulky Girl and nominate The Maze Runner by James Dashner, which was nominated last year; I don't know if it qualifies to be nominated again.
And also from my TBR list The Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk Goodreads review

Links
Maze Runner at Kobo
Maze Runner at Amazon
Fight Club at Kobo
Fight Club at Amazon

Dazrin 06-24-2016 08:17 PM

I will second The Maze Runner. I can get it from my library and we need more options.

issybird 06-25-2016 11:54 AM

I'm going to nominate Something New/Something Fresh, the first of P.G. Wodehouse's Blandings Castle novels. I can't imagine anything more delightful than a Wodehouse summer read. Something New is the original title of its 1915 US publication; it was published the following year in the UK as Something Fresh. As the date indicates, it's public domain in the US and thus a free read for us Yanks.

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This is the first Blandings novel, In which P.G. Wodehouse intorduces us to the delightfully dotty Lord Emsworth, his bone-headed younger son, the Hon. Freddie Threepwood, his log-suffering secretary, the Efficient Baxter, and Beach the Blandings butler.

As Wodehouse wrote, 'without at least one imposter on the premises, Blandings Castle is never itself'. In Something Fresh there are two, each with an eye on a valuable Egytian amulet which Lord Emsworth has acquired without quite realizing how it came into his pocket. But of course things get a lot more complicated than this...
Free US Kindle edition ManyBooks $2.99 Audible Whispersync with free Kindle

WT Sharpe 06-25-2016 01:02 PM

Hmmm... Issy, I can't find the $2.99 Whispersync/free ebook deal as your link takes me straight to the full price at Audible, but I did find this $2.99+99¢ Whispersync deal:
https://www.amazon.com/Something-New.../dp/B00KZFPKPU

And also this $3.95 Audible deal on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Something-New/dp/B00PUWCJ1Q

issybird 06-25-2016 01:26 PM

Thanks, Tom. I was struggling with Audible a bit as I'd already bought the audiobook and I obviously missed the right combination.

Just as an FYI to anyone, the PD Wodehouse Kindle books and the $2.99 Whispersync audio books are really a terrific deal.

din155 06-25-2016 01:41 PM

I second Something New/Something Fresh. I have never read anything by Wodehouse and Book club selection would be a nice start.

issybird 06-25-2016 06:38 PM

C'mon, folks, I'm begging. A little over a day to get a third for Something New/Something Fresh. Either you already love Wodehouse or you will, once you've read him. And it's free! And funny! And for audiobibliophiles, the audiobook is cheap! What's not to love?

pdurrant 06-26-2016 05:37 AM

I use my second nomination for Something New/Something Fresh.


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