MobileRead May 2017 Book Club Nominations

[CRussel]

Originally Posted by obs20

I'll also second The Collapsing Empire.

Yours is actually the third for this one, so it's moved to fully nominated. (Well, it will be as soon as Tom is back online. )

[Luffy]

edited -stupid error.

[CRussel]

OK, this is getting too quiet. Given that I've already nominated a "trader" book, I'll nominate a second 'Trader' book, Quarter Share by Nathan Lowell. The first in his Trader's Tales from the Golden Age of the Solar Clipper series. This is very much a YA coming of age book, with absolutely no violence or sex. Rated G. Originally published as a podcast read by the author, it has that feel about it even when read as an eBook. Available free if you have KU, and can be listened to for free as a podcast if you prefer, or as a paid Audible book if you find podcasts annoying. (The Audible book is not read by the author, though I found the Audible narrator non-jarring even though I had already heard the author's podcast.)

Originally Posted by Amazon

The Golden Age of Sail has Returned -- in the Year 2352

When his mother dies in a flitter crash, eighteen-year-old Ishmael Horatio Wang must find a job with the planet company or leave the system--and NerisCo isn't hiring. With credits running low, and prospects limited, he has just one hope...to enlist for two years with a deep space commercial freighter. Ishmael, who only rarely visited the Neris Orbital, and has never been off-planet alone before, finds himself part of an eclectic crew sailing a deep space leviathan between the stars.

Join the crew of the SC Lois McKendrick, a Manchester built clipper as she sets solar sails in search of profit for her company and a crew each entitled to a share equal to their rating.

This has a solid 4 stars on Amazon from more than 700 reviewers. It's probably a bit light, IMHO, but sometimes we need some fluff. AND, I promise, no green-eyed monsters. Honestly, though, I fell in love with this book. Try it -- you might as well.

Amazon -- $4.95 or KU

Audible - 1 Credit

Podcast -- Free

Goodreads - 4.13 with >5,000 ratings

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Luffy

I'm seconding Consider Phlebas.

I read this for a bookclub and of about 27 people, only about 3 liked it. I wasn't one of those that liked it. It started off good and got awful as it went along. The ending was very poor.

[WT Sharpe]

Because green-eyed monsters deserve love too, I nominate The Green-Eyed Monster (The Enigma of Twilight Falls #1) by Mike Robinson

From Goodreads:

Martin Smith and John Becker: bestselling authors with ordinary names and extraordinary minds.

Their words have power — to heal, to kill, to change the lives of their “characters” in shocking and unexpected ways. Famous for their uncanny similarity in both physical manner and literary voice, their childhood rivalry spins out of control into adulthood.

The death of one at the hands of the other brings to light their troubling past — and a mysterious presence, watching on from the shadows — an authorial entity with roots beyond our time or dimension; an entity with far-reaching designs.

The pen is truly mightier than the deadliest sword.

[Luffy]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

I read this for a bookclub and of about 27 people, only about 3 liked it. I wasn't one of those that liked it. It started off good and got awful as it went along. The ending was very poor.

I didn't know much about it. I bought the ebook, but didn't get around to reading it. I guess it's improper to withdraw a choice.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Luffy

I didn't know much about it. I bought the ebook, but didn't get around to reading it. I guess it's improper to withdraw a choice.

You could ask for your nod back. Worst that could happen is nothing.

I'm glad I got it from Overdrive even though I overpaid.

[JSWolf]

Can someone nominate something good that's available via Overdrive (as an eBook)? Thanks.

[issybird]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Can someone nominate something good that's available via Overdrive (as an eBook)? Thanks.

O.K.! I know everyone's read it, but it's a classic and I think would make for a fun discussion.

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. From Amazon:

Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future.

Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden.

We knew that.

I'm not going to link to Amazon et al. because it's expensive, at least in the US. It's at OverDrive, Hoopla has the audiobook, and I figure most people have a copy kicking around anyway or can lay their hands on one. If you read Spanish, you're in luck because the Kindle version is only $3.99.

[GA Russell]

I second Farenheit 451.

[Hollow Man]

Originally Posted by GA Russell

I second Farenheit 451.

I third Fahrenheit 451. I read it semi-recently, but it's a quick read, and I think I'd get more out of it a second time 'round.

-HM

[Dazrin]

In the interest of getting more nominations completed I will third Kirinyaga. I will also second The Night Land although I wish the abridged version "A Dream of X" had been nominated instead, I would rather chance reading 175 pages instead of 450+.

[WT Sharpe]

Nominations are now closed.

Be back with the poll soon.