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The House on the Strand by Daphne du Maurier | 9 | 75.00% | |
Stargazing by Peter Hill | 4 | 33.33% | |
Mary Rose by Geoffrey Girard | 4 | 33.33% | |
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino | 4 | 33.33% | |
The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde | 6 | 50.00% | |
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North | 4 | 33.33% | |
Against the Fall of Night by Arthur C. Clarke | 4 | 33.33% | |
The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde | 2 | 16.67% | |
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09-07-2018, 07:08 AM | #1 |
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Vote for October 2018 • Out of This World: Otherwhence
Let's select the book we'll read and discuss in October 2018! We love new participants. We're happy for you to vote, but we'd like to request that you not vote unless you plan to join the discussion whatever the selection, in the interest of a vibrant conversation. This is a poll. Vote for as many books as you'd like. Questions? FAQs | Guidelines Or just ask! Choices: The House on the Strand by Daphne du Maurier $US6.99, $C9.99, $A12.99, £5.99 Spoiler:
336 pages
Stargazing by Peter Hill Amazon UK - £6.17 | Amazon AU $12.99 | Kobo UK - £6.83 | Kobo AU $12.99 Spoiler:
292 pages
Mary Rose by Geoffrey Girard, based on J. M. Barrie's play of the same name Amazon U.S. $7.34 | Amazon CA $9.99 | Kobo U.S., $8.69 | Kobo CA $9.89 | Hoopla, Scribd, Overdrive, RB Digital Spoiler:
272 pages
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino Amazon US $9.99 | Amazon UK £4.99 | Amazon AU $12.99 | OverDrive, Audible Spoiler:
182 pages
The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde Public Domain Spoiler:
126 pages
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North Amazon US $2.99 Spoiler:
417 pages
Against the Fall of Night by Arthur C. Clarke Amazon US $7.75 | Amazon CA $7.99 | Amazon AU $10.55 | Kobo US $8.09 | Kobo CA $8.69 | Kobo AU $10.88 Spoiler:
120 pages
The Big Over Easy (Nursery Crime #1) by Jasper Fforde Amazon US $4.99 | Amazon UK £0.99 | Amazon AU $12.99 | Amazon CA $4.99 Spoiler:
383 pages
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09-07-2018, 11:15 AM | #2 |
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Just for fun, I worked up two lists, one handicapping the probabilities as I see them based entirely on gut feeling and the other listing my preferences. Alas, my top two favorites, Calvino and Hill, seem like longshots. I'd be happy to be proved wrong!
So while I'll vote for them, I'm focusing on the middle group wherein lie the ones I've identified as having potential both to be selected and for providing sufficient fodder for discussion, which is most important to me. Oddly, since it's not my kind of thing, that means that I might vote for Clarke since I think it's more discussible than a few of the others (and then there's the expanding horizons thing plus OverDrive has it). But I generally don't like to vote for more than half the choices and including Clarke would push my votes up to five. I need to think a little more. |
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09-07-2018, 05:41 PM | #3 |
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09-08-2018, 11:53 AM | #4 |
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I've checked availability at my local library for DuMaurier, Calvino, and Hill. I love lighthouses and was sad to discover I can't get Hill. So DuMaurier and Calvino it is for me. And Canterville thrown in for seasonal measure.
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09-08-2018, 12:42 PM | #5 |
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Stargazing has caught my fancy sufficiently that I've placed an ILL request for it, so I'll read it, win or lose.
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09-08-2018, 09:54 PM | #6 |
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09-11-2018, 07:49 AM | #7 |
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Wow, a huge final flurry for The House on the Strand!
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09-11-2018, 07:52 AM | #8 |
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Good thing too! I went to the public library here yesterday to check it out. As an aside, I love what it says about my town that the library was EVERY BIT as slammed as the grocery stores for our impending hurricane!
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(Seriously, I know that's not a major priority. Stay safe.) |
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09-11-2018, 05:59 PM | #10 |
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Best of luck during the hurricane. I hope you don’t sustain any damage to property, or of course any injury.
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09-11-2018, 07:20 PM | #11 |
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I'll add my hopes that you and everyone in the area ride out the hurricane safely and that the damage turns out to be minimal.
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09-12-2018, 12:56 AM | #12 |
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Indeed. This is another monster, and is looking to be stuck right at the coast or slightly inland for a while due to the stalled high pressure system. Be safe.
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09-14-2018, 12:07 PM | #13 | |
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I prefer reading ebooks, but I don't mind reading paper when it's the only or significantly cheaper option. Do others use ILL? I'm not saying I get a constant stream of them, but it definitely has a place in my toolbox. My last ILL was a Wodehouse that's not available as an ebook or audiobook at all, so it truly was my only alternative in my long-term goal to read all of him in more-or-less order. |
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Stargazing is available in the UK and AU as an eBook, so I'll probably get it in one of those locations. It's £6.17 in the UK, which works out to just a shade over $8 USD. Not an unreasonable price for a book. |
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09-14-2018, 03:55 PM | #15 |
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I hope all goes well for you and your town, astrangerhere.
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