MobileRead August 2016 Book Club Nominations - Page 2

BenG · 07-22-2016, 09:11 AM

I'll third Carved In The Bone and nominate Open Season by C.J. Box.

The first of the novels featuring Joe Pickett, a Wyoming game warden. It won a slew of awards when it came out [Barry Award for Best First Novel (2002), Macavity Award for Best First Mystery Novel (2002), Anthony Award for Best First Novel (2002), Gumshoe Award for Best First Novel (2002), Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Best First Mystery Novel (0), Edgar Award Nominee for Best First Novel (2002)].

Spoiler:

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00452V3VE...ng=UTF8&btkr=1

Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Open-Season...ywords=c+j+box

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/244102.Open_Season

Overdrive: https://www.overdrive.com/media/865667/open-season

JSWolf · 07-22-2016, 09:52 AM

If a book is available via Overdrive, please link to it. It's much more appealing if it is available via Overdrive.

If you've not linked to Overdrive, please go back and see if you can do so.

WT Sharpe · 07-22-2016, 11:57 AM

This one looks good. Today only the audiobook is $2.95 at Audible. Nominated. Links to come.

The Boy in the Suitcase: A Nina Borg Mystery by Lene Kaaberbøl.

TODAY ONLY AUDIBLE PRICE $2.95: http://www.audible.com/pd/Mysteries-Thrillers/The-Boy-in-the-Suitcase-Audiobook/B00631OLAU (Audible sale over.)

Quote:

From Goodreads:

Nina Borg, a Red Cross nurse, wife, and mother of two, is a compulsive do-gooder who can’t say no when someone asks for help—even when she knows better. When her estranged friend Karin leaves her a key to a public locker in the Copenhagen train station, Nina gets suckered into her most dangerous project yet. Inside the locker is a suitcase, and inside the suitcase is a three-year-old boy: naked and drugged, but alive.

Is the boy a victim of child trafficking? Can he be turned over to authorities, or will they only return him to whoever sold him? When Karin is discovered brutally murdered, Nina realizes that her life and the boy’s are in jeopardy, too. In an increasingly desperate trek across Denmark, Nina tries to figure out who the boy is, where he belongs, and who exactly is trying to hunt him down.

Goodreads
Amazon Au
Amazon Ca
Amazon UK
Amazon US
Barnes & Noble
Kobo US
Overdrive

GA Russell · 07-22-2016, 12:11 PM

I second Open Season.

WT Sharpe · 07-22-2016, 12:35 PM

I have one vote left. Both Open Season and Final Jeopardy are vying for it. One is a 2002 multiple award winner and the other is by someone who has 20 years worth of background as former head of the Manhattan Sex Crimes Unit. Decisions, decisions. Think I'll wait to see if one gets fully nominated and give my vote to the other.

CRussel · 07-23-2016, 01:17 AM

Either of them look somewhat possible, Tom. I still have three votes, but I'm also not feeling terribly motivated this month. Partly work, partly being focused on the new club, and partly just not seeing anything here that gets me excited.

I think I'll hold off for a bit. Maybe something more interesting will get nominated.

GA Russell · 07-25-2016, 11:28 AM

We have three titles which need a third.

WT Sharpe · 07-25-2016, 12:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GA Russell

We have three titles which need a third.

...and nominations end tomorrow night at midnight!

Dazrin · 07-25-2016, 01:09 PM

I will second The Boy in the Suitcase and make it 4 options that only need a third. Hopefully someone fills out at least a couple of these, if for no other reason than to give us a larger slate to work with.

Other than the titles I seconded or nominated none of these are available at my library (in e-book form at least).

CRussel · 07-25-2016, 03:00 PM

A third for The Boy in a Suitcase.

CRussel · 07-25-2016, 03:05 PM

And a third for Fast One -- at least it's a reasonable price. I'm not going for anything that's $10 for the book and another $10 (or more) for the Audible version. At least not this month.

din155 · 07-25-2016, 03:47 PM

I want to nominate The Day Of The Jackal by by Frederick Forsyth. I have not read this book and has been in my tbr for a long time and have heard nice things about it.

Quote:

It is 1963 and an anonymous Englishman has been hired by the Operations Chief of the O.A.S. to murder General de Galle. A failed attempt in the previous year means the target will be nearly impossible to get to. But this latest plot involves a lethal weapon: an assassin of legendary talent.

Known only as The Jackal this remorseless and deadly killer must be stopped, but how do you track a man who exists in name alone?

Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B003GDFQ...I1A69BUA4THZAN

Kobo UK: https://store.kobobooks.com/en-GB/eb...godDt4z8x.oxjg

CRussel · 07-25-2016, 04:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by din155

I want to nominate The Day Of The Jackal by by Frederick Forsyth. I have not read this book and has been in my tbr for a long time and have heard nice things about it.

Ouch, $11.99 in the US at Amazon. However, I see that it IS available on Overdrive - two ebook editions:
Overdrive
Overdrive 40th Anniversary Edition

And two Overdrive audio editions:
Overdrive Audio (Simon Prebble)
Overdrive Audio (David Rintoul - may be UK Only)

Given the Overdrive availability, I'll second this.

JSWolf · 07-25-2016, 07:11 PM

I'll third Open Season.

CRussel · 07-26-2016, 11:21 AM

Come on, folks. One more third for Day of the Jackal and we can add this classic of the type to our list. I know you've all seen the movie - now, read the actual book!

FWIW, I don't think I've ever read this, though I can't imagine how I missed it. This seems like a perfectly good excuse to rectify that.

07-22-2016, 09:11 AM	#16
BenG Home Guard Posts: 4,730 Karma: 86721650 Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Alpha Ralpha Boulevard Device: Kindle Oasis 3G, iPhone 6	I'll third Carved In The Bone and nominate Open Season by C.J. Box. The first of the novels featuring Joe Pickett, a Wyoming game warden. It won a slew of awards when it came out [Barry Award for Best First Novel (2002), Macavity Award for Best First Mystery Novel (2002), Anthony Award for Best First Novel (2002), Gumshoe Award for Best First Novel (2002), Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Best First Mystery Novel (0), Edgar Award Nominee for Best First Novel (2002)]. Spoiler: Enthusiastic blurbs even from luminaries such as Tony Hillerman, Les Standiford and Loren Estleman can sometimes leave readers feeling as if they must have read a different book altogether. Not this time. Box's superb debut, the first in a series introducing Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett, should immediately make him a contender for best first novel or even best novel awards. Young Joe is struggling to fill the shoes of his mentor, legendary Vern Dunnegan, as warden of Twelve Sleep County, and trying to support his wife and growing family on the meager salary he makes. The hours are long, the work hard but satisfying, and Joe's honesty and integrity would pay off if he could avoid "bonehead moves" like ticketing the governor of the state for fishing without a license, for instance, or allowing a poacher to grab Joe's firearm from him. When that very same poacher turns up dead and bloodied in Joe's woodpile with only a cooler containing unidentified animal scat, his life, livelihood and family will never be the same. Upping the excitement are a couple of murders, local political and bureaucratic intrigue, a high-stakes pipeline scheme and an endangered species that Joe's eldest daughter "discovers." No one has done a better job of portraying the odd combination of hardy and foolhardy folk that make their homes in Wyoming's wilderness areas, or of describing the dichotomy between those who want to develop the area and those who want to preserve it. Without resorting to simplistic blacks and whites, Box fuses ecological themes, vibrant descriptions of Wyoming's wonders and peculiarities, and fully fleshed characters into a debut of riveting tensions. Meet Joe Pickett: he's going to be a mystery star. --From Publishers Weekly Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00452V3VE...ng=UTF8&btkr=1 Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Open-Season...ywords=c+j+box Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/244102.Open_Season Overdrive: https://www.overdrive.com/media/865667/open-season Last edited by BenG; 07-22-2016 at 11:30 AM. Reason: added link to Overdrive

07-25-2016, 01:09 PM	#24
Dazrin Wizard Posts: 2,730 Karma: 75825105 Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: PDXish Device: Kindle Voyage, various Android devices	I will second The Boy in the Suitcase and make it 4 options that only need a third. Hopefully someone fills out at least a couple of these, if for no other reason than to give us a larger slate to work with. Other than the titles I seconded or nominated none of these are available at my library (in e-book form at least). Last edited by Dazrin; 07-25-2016 at 01:14 PM.

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07-22-2016, 09:52 AM	#17
JSWolf Resident Curmudgeon Posts: 79,862 Karma: 146918083 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Roslindale, Massachusetts Device: Kobo Libra 2, Kobo Aura H2O, PRS-650, PRS-T1, nook STR, PW3	If a book is available via Overdrive, please link to it. It's much more appealing if it is available via Overdrive. If you've not linked to Overdrive, please go back and see if you can do so.

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GA Russell What a weekend! Posts: 7,695 Karma: 31487351 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Raleigh, NC Device: Paperwhite, Kindles 10 & 4 and jetBook Lite	I second Open Season.

07-22-2016, 12:35 PM	#20
WT Sharpe Bah, humbug! Posts: 39,072 Karma: 157049943 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Chesapeake, VA, USA Device: Kindle Oasis, iPad Pro, & a Samsung Galaxy S9.	I have one vote left. Both Open Season and Final Jeopardy are vying for it. One is a 2002 multiple award winner and the other is by someone who has 20 years worth of background as former head of the Manhattan Sex Crimes Unit. Decisions, decisions. Think I'll wait to see if one gets fully nominated and give my vote to the other.

07-23-2016, 01:17 AM	#21
CRussel (he/him/his) Posts: 12,296 Karma: 80074820 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Sunshine Coast, BC Device: Oasis (Gen3),Paperwhite (Gen10), Voyage, Paperwhite(orig), iPad Air M3	Either of them look somewhat possible, Tom. I still have three votes, but I'm also not feeling terribly motivated this month. Partly work, partly being focused on the new club, and partly just not seeing anything here that gets me excited. I think I'll hold off for a bit. Maybe something more interesting will get nominated.

07-25-2016, 11:28 AM	#22
GA Russell What a weekend! Posts: 7,695 Karma: 31487351 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Raleigh, NC Device: Paperwhite, Kindles 10 & 4 and jetBook Lite	We have three titles which need a third.

07-25-2016, 03:00 PM	#25
CRussel (he/him/his) Posts: 12,296 Karma: 80074820 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Sunshine Coast, BC Device: Oasis (Gen3),Paperwhite (Gen10), Voyage, Paperwhite(orig), iPad Air M3	A third for *The Boy in a Suitcase*.

07-25-2016, 03:05 PM	#26
CRussel (he/him/his) Posts: 12,296 Karma: 80074820 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Sunshine Coast, BC Device: Oasis (Gen3),Paperwhite (Gen10), Voyage, Paperwhite(orig), iPad Air M3	And a third for Fast One -- at least it's a reasonable price. I'm not going for anything that's $10 for the book and another $10 (or more) for the Audible version. At least not this month.

07-25-2016, 07:11 PM	#29
JSWolf Resident Curmudgeon Posts: 79,862 Karma: 146918083 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Roslindale, Massachusetts Device: Kobo Libra 2, Kobo Aura H2O, PRS-650, PRS-T1, nook STR, PW3	I'll third Open Season.

07-26-2016, 11:21 AM	#30
CRussel (he/him/his) Posts: 12,296 Karma: 80074820 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Sunshine Coast, BC Device: Oasis (Gen3),Paperwhite (Gen10), Voyage, Paperwhite(orig), iPad Air M3	Come on, folks. One more third for *Day of the Jackal* and we can add this classic of the type to our list. I know you've all seen the movie - now, read the actual book! FWIW, I don't think I've ever read this, though I can't imagine how I missed it. This seems like a perfectly good excuse to rectify that.

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