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Sun January 20 2013

February 2013 Book Club Nominations

01:31 AM by WT Sharpe in Reading Recommendations | Book Clubs

MobileRead Book Club
February 2013 Nominations

Help us select the next book that the MobileRead Book Club will read for February, 2013.

The nominations will run through midnight EST January 30 or until 10 books have made the list. The poll will then be posted and will remain open for 5 days.

Book selection category for February is:

Romance

In order for a book to be included in the poll it needs THREE NOMINATIONS (original nomination, a second and a third).

How Does This Work?
The Mobile Read Book Club (MRBC) is an informal club that requires nothing of you. Each month a book is selected by polling. On the last week of that month a discussion thread is started for the book. If you want to participate feel free. There is no need to "join" or sign up. All are welcome.

How Does a Book Get Selected?
Each book that is nominated will be listed in a poll at the end of the nomination period. The book that polls the most votes will be the official selection.

How Many Nominations Can I Make?
Each participant has 3 nominations. You can nominate a new book for consideration or nominate (second, third) one that has already been nominated by another person.

How Do I Nominate a Book?
Please just post a message with your nomination. If you are the FIRST to nominate a book, please try to provide an abstract to the book so others may consider their level of interest.

How Do I Know What Has Been Nominated?
Just follow the thread. This message will be updated with the status of the nominations as often as I can. If one is missed, please just post a message with a multi-quote of the 3 nominations and it will be added to the list ASAP.

When is the Poll?
The poll thread will open at the end of the nomination period, or once there have been 10 books with 3 nominations each. At that time a link to the initial poll thread will be posted here and this thread will be closed.

The floor is open to nominations. Please comment if you discover a nomination is not available as an ebook in your area.

* In case of a first or second place tie in the first voting poll, the run-off poll may have more than two choices.


Official choices with three nominations each:

(1) Portrait of Jennie by Robert Nathan
Amazon US

Spoiler:
In this gentle novel, Nathan uses the device of "time-slip" to create one of the most haunting, moving and beautiful romances ever written. Many are familiar with the love of two people separated in time from the wonderful film of the same name. In fact, the book is even better. Where the film did make changes, they were usually inferior to the original conception of the author.

(2) Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Inkmesh / Amazon US / Barnes & Noble

Spoiler:
Awe and exhiliration--along with heartbreak and mordant wit--abound in Lolita, Nabokov's most famous and controversial novel, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. Lolita is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America. Most of all, it is a meditation on love--love as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation.

(3) Circle of Friends by Maeve Binchy
Inkmesh / Amazon US / Barnes & Noble

Spoiler:
It began with Benny Hogan and Eve Malone, growing up, inseparable, in the village of Knockglen. Benny—the only child, yearning to break free from her adoring parents...Eve—the orphaned offspring of a convent handyman and a rebellious blueblood, abandoned by her mother's wealthy family to be raised by nuns. Eve and Benny—they knew the sins and secrets behind every villager's lace curtains...except their own.

It widened at Dublin, at the university where Benny and Eve met beautiful Nan Mahlon and Jack Foley, a doctor's handsome son. But heartbreak and betrayal would bring the worlds of Knockglen and Dublin into explosive collision. Long-hidden lies would emerge to test the meaning of love and the strength of ties held within the fragile gold bands of a...Circle Of Friends.

(4) The Greatest Knight by Elizabeth Chadwick
Inkmesh / Amazon US / Barnes & Noble

Spoiler:
A penniless young knight with few prospects, William Marshal is plucked from obscurity when he saves the life of Henry II's formidable queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine. In gratitude, she appoints him tutor to the heir to the throne, the volatile and fickle Prince Henry. But being a royal favorite brings its share of danger and jealousy as well as fame and reward.

(5) Shards of Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold
Inkmesh / Amazon US / Barnes & Noble

Spoiler:
Cordelia Naismith, Betan Survey Captain, was expecting the unexpected: hexapods, floating creatures, odd parasites... She was not, however, expecting to find hostile humans on an uninhabited planet. And she wasn't really expecting to fall in love with a 40-plus barbarian known to cosmopolitan galactics as the Butcher of Komarr. Will Mother ever understand? And can such an odd beast as love survive an interplanetary war?

(6) Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
Inkmesh / Amazon US / Barnes & Noble

Spoiler:
The year is 1945. Claire Randall is traveling with her husband when she touches a boulder in one of the ancient stone circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is hurled back in time to a Scotland torn by war and raiding border clans in the year of our Lord 1743. Catapulted into the intrigues of lairds and spies that may threaten her life, she soon realizes that an alliance with James Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior, might be the only way to survive. Thus begins a work of unrivaled storytelling that has become a modern classic.

(7) Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Amazon US / Amazon UK / Barnes & Noble / Google / Sony

Spoiler:
Though he may not speak of them, the memories still dwell inside Jacob Jankowski's ninety-something-year-old mind. Memories of himself as a young man, tossed by fate onto a rickety train that was home to the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth. Memories of a world filled with freaks and clowns, with wonder and pain and anger and passion; a world with its own narrow, irrational rules, its own way of life, and its own way of death. The world of the circus: to Jacob it was both salvation and a living hell.

Jacob was there because his luck had run out—orphaned and penniless, he had no direction until he landed on this locomotive "ship of fools." It was the early part of the Great Depression, and everyone in this third-rate circus was lucky to have any job at all. Marlena, the star of the equestrian act, was there because she fell in love with the wrong man, a handsome circus boss with a wide mean streak. And Rosie the elephant was there because she was the great gray hope, the new act that was going to be the salvation of the circus; the only problem was, Rosie didn't have an act—in fact, she couldn't even follow instructions. The bond that grew among this unlikely trio was one of love and trust, and ultimately, it was their only hope for survival.

Surprising, poignant, and funny, Water for Elephants is that rare novel with a story so engrossing, one is reluctant to put it down; with characters so engaging, they continue to live long after the last page has been turned; with a world built of wonder, a world so real, one starts to breathe its air.

(8) A Town Like Alice by Neville Shute
Amazon US / Barnes & Noble / Sony

Spoiler:
Nevil Shute’s most beloved novel, a tale of love and war, follows its enterprising heroine from the Malayan jungle during World War II to the rugged Australian outback.

Jean Paget, a young Englishwoman living in Malaya, is captured by the invading Japanese and forced on a brutal seven-month death march with dozens of other women and children. A few years after the war, Jean is back in England, the nightmare behind her. However, an unexpected inheritance inspires her to return to Malaya to give something back to the villagers who saved her life. But it turns out that they have a gift for her as well: the news that the young Australian soldier, Joe Harmon, who had risked his life to help the women, had miraculously survived. Jean’s search for Joe leads her to a desolate Australian outpost called Willstown, where she finds a challenge that will draw on all the resourcefulness and spirit that carried her through her war-time ordeals.

(9) Love Story by Erich Segal
Amazon US / Barnes & Noble / Sony

Spoiler:
This is the wonderful, tumultuous, heartfelt story of Oliver Barrett IV and Jenny Cavilleri--the story of a rich Harvard jock and a wisecracking Radcliffe music major who have nothing in common but love . . . and everything else to share but time. Funny and flip, sad and poignant, Erich Segal's magnificent novel will grab you, hold you, and stay with you forever. You, like more than twenty million others, will fall in love with Love Story.

(10) Stardust by Neil Gaiman
Amazon US / Barnes & Noble / Sony

Spoiler:
Hopelessly crossed in love, a boy of half-fairy parentage leaves his mundane Victorian-English village on a quest for a fallen star in the magical realm. The star proves to be an attractive woman with a hot temper, who plunges with our hero into adventures featuring witches, the lion and the unicorn, plotting elf-lords, ships that sail the sky, magical transformations, curses whose effects rebound, binding conditions with hidden loopholes and all the rest.

The Nominations are now closed.

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Sat January 19 2013

MobileRead Week in Review: 01/12 - 01/19

07:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review

If you've been a bit too busy to keep up, here are a few of our favorite stories from the past week.

Miscellaneous - Announcements

Fri January 18 2013

Tapatalk upgraded

11:18 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Announcements

For all you all of you following MobileRead via Tapatalk, we have updated the server-side components to the latest version.

It's mainly a bugfix release (hence no new features). If you encounter any unexpected difficulties or issues using Tapatalk at MobileRead, please reply here.

Cheers,
Alex

[ 2 replies ]

Mon January 14 2013

MobileRead's Winter Contest Winners Revealed!

06:59 AM by dreams in Miscellaneous | Announcements

MobileRead's Twelve Days of Christmas Murder Mystery (Story Thread) challenged our members to match their wits with Agatha Chicken's world-famous detective Hercule Poulet to determine which one of the moderators was the fiendish devil behind it all. A Winter Murder Mystery (Kindle/mobi and ePub) told the story of this dastardly fiend that dared to eliminate the other moderators.

The entries came in, the suspects were accused (we enjoyed reading all your reasons for your chosen suspect), and the correct entries were added for the prize drawing.

And now for the moment everyone on the Internet (just play along) has been waiting for: it's time to announce the winners (randomly chosen from all the correct entries).

The Winners Are....

Amazon Kindle Paperwhite + WaterField Kindle Paperwhite Slip Cases

Kobo Glo

Onyx Boox i62HD

Onyx Boox M92 Black

PocketBook Touch

E-Book vouchers worth $30 each

Congratulations to all the winners!

We're hugely thankful to the fine folks from eReader-Store, Kobo, PocketBook, WaterField Designs, and everyone else who helped us make this contest possible. You're great!

Thank you again to everyone that played along with us and sent in some fantastic entries (it looks like there may be some potential writers out there ) and for all the wonderful thoughts about MobileRead.

[ 128 replies ]

Sat January 12 2013

MobileRead Week in Review: 01/05 - 01/12

07:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review

There's been a whole heck of a lot of stuff happening this week. Purvey the below for your pleasure.

E-Book General - News

Sat January 05 2013

Mobile Winter Contest Closes on Monday 7th January

01:53 PM by pdurrant in E-Book General | News

Today, Saturday 5th January, the last episode in MobileRead's Winter Contest was posted.

Members now have two days to read or re-read the murder mystery story by Agatha Chicken, and work out who was responsible for the deaths of so many of the moderating team.

For full details, see the Announcement and episodes thread.

The following prizes are up for grabs:

[ 11 replies ]

MobileRead Week in Review: 12/29 - 01/05

07:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review

Just in case you've missed anything, here is the list of our frontpage news this week.

E-Book General - General Discussions

Mon December 31 2012

A Further Word about the Prizes

12:21 PM by WT Sharpe in E-Book General | General Discussions

Here's some more information (see the first reply to this thread) about those wonderful prizes we'll be giving away in a few days. It's still not too late! The deadline to send us the solution is January 7th 2013, at 11:59 PM EST (see this thread for details).

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