03-02-2018, 08:16 AM | #16 |
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I'll second The Time Machine. It's one of my all-time favourite books. The only reason I didn't nominate it the second this thread opened is we've had grumblings about too many old books, and short books come to that.
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I'd like to nominate 1916: The Easter Rising by Tim Pat Coogan.
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03-02-2018, 03:07 PM | #18 |
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I third 1916: The Easter Rising.
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I'm going to nominate The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde. This is going to be a fun and funny book. I do think you'll love it.
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03-02-2018, 06:47 PM | #23 | |
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I'm nominating The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells by Andrew Sean Greer.
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03-02-2018, 07:56 PM | #24 |
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Is it okay to say here that this nominations list is definitely increasing my "wish list"?! So many of these books sound like fun!
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03-02-2018, 08:18 PM | #25 |
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03-03-2018, 04:10 AM | #27 |
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I’ll jump right in and third 1632, I’ve been looking at that one, but not gotten around to reading it.
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03-03-2018, 04:18 AM | #28 |
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For those interested in the 1632 series, many of them had been made available for download:
http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/ The 1635 zip has a bunch of the books. The above is not a pirate site. |
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I'm going to nominate something outside my usual reading genres, but I enjoyed the writing style of the sample that I read and found the concept intriguing.
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North. Winner of the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Novel (2015) and Arthur C. Clarke Award Nominee for Best Novel (2015). Claire North is the pseudonym for Catherine Webb, a Carnegie Medal-nominated, young-adult novelist. It seems to be overlapping genres of science fiction, history and even spy thriller. Available at Amazon US and Kobo US for $9.99. I did check that it is available as an ebook in Australia, Canada and UK. It is also available at Overdrive, Cloud (previously 3M) and Axis 360 Libraries. It can be found at Scribd as an audiobook. Because the Goodreads description is rather vague, I've copied a starred review from Booklist instead. Quote:
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03-03-2018, 02:16 PM | #30 |
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Come on people. The Eyre Affiar just needs one more nod for a really fun read that takes some favorite characters to places they've never been.
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