MobileRead June 2014 Book Club Nominations

[Billi]

Originally Posted by sun surfer

I nominate The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes, which won the Man Booker Prize.

I second this.

[ccowie]

I'll third The Sense of an Ending.

[Synamon]

I'll third White Tiger, it's amusing.

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by Dazrin

Here is the tally....

Thanks for stepping in. I had started updating the first two posts of this thread before seeing what you had done, so for sake of completeness I'd appreciate it if you continue what you've started.

Karma coming your way!

[Dazrin]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

Thanks for stepping in. I had started updating the first two posts of this thread before seeing what you had done, so for sake of completeness I'd appreciate it if you continue what you've started.

Karma coming your way!

You are most welcome. Figured someone who is normally involved in the book club should step up and keep it tallied. I will keep track in post #14 for the rest of the nomination period, but may be slightly slow through Monday with the holiday.

Thanks for the K!

[sun surfer]

I second The Manual of Detection.

[WT Sharpe]

And I third The Manual of Detection. Sounds interesting, even though we just went through a Mystery/Thriller month.

[jj2me]

Originally Posted by Mims

Dr. Mukherjee said in an interview with Medscape that Ken Burns next project is a six hour production called Cancerwhich will be out in 2015 and is based on The Emperor of all Maladies.

At the end of another interview I heard, the interviewer asked Dr. Mukherjee if there were any takeaways he could give, like the five most important things we could do that would help to avoid cancer.

Mukherjee responded, "Sure: stop smoking, stop smoking, stop smoking, stop smoking, stop smoking."

[sun surfer]

Well, I have one more nomination so I'll throw out Saville by David Storey, which won the Booker Prize.


From Goodreads:

Colin Saville grows up in a mining village in South Yorkshire, against the background of war, of an industrialised countryside, of town and coalmine and village.


"If you haven't read David Storey's 1976 winner Saville read it at once, it is the best of all the Bookers." - The Observer


And since any abstracts about the book I could find were all as short as the one I used above, I'll also include the first review from Goodreads:

"This novel epitomizes one of my favorite quotes:

'Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.' - Boris Pasternak

Reading this book really is an extraordinary experience! I found much of it to be very comforting, very homey. I found other parts to be quite disturbing. This novel affected me in ways that I'm still trying to sort out. I suspect this is a story that I'll continue to think about, to try to come to terms with it, for a long time." - John


Amazon Au / Aamzon Ca / Amazon UK / Amazon US / B&N

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by sun surfer

Well, I have one more nomination so I'll throw out Saville by David Storey, which won the Booker Prize....

Looks interesting. Seconded.

[fantasyfan]

I'll third Saville by David Storey

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by fantasyfan

I'll third Saville by David Storey

And that makes 10 fully nominated selections. I'll be back soon with the poll.

[WT Sharpe]

Your friendly, neighborhood June poll is here.