MobileRead February 2015 Book Club Nominations

[Dazrin]

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]

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]

I will third Jon's choice, The Fault In Our Stars.

[pistoli]

The fault in Our Stars ! (been waiting in my huge TBR list)

[Dazrin]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

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]

*** 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]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

*** 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]

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]

Originally Posted by issybird

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]

Originally Posted by CRussel

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]

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]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

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]

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]

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]

Originally Posted by Lin2412

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!