College Students! discussion

For July we are going to have a category 1 anything goes book and our category 2 is "Poetry".

-Only one nomination per person and you must choose one category. If all 12 spots in one category are not filled by June 10th, you can nominate a book for the other category.

-Please specify which category you are nominating for. (Cat 1 or Cat 2) Your post should look something like this:

Category 1: "This Book" by An Author

- Please make sure you have the book and author in your nomination

- Add a blurb of some sort to let us know what the book will be like.

-We will be taking the first 12 nominations for each category or we will close nominations on June 20th if not all categories are filled.

-Voting will begin soon after nominations are done and will be open for a week or so.

- If your book wins, please let us know whether or not you would like to lead the book discussion. It is not required by any means that you lead it.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

Poems of Anna Akhmatova
She was a member of the upper class intelligentsia in Russia during the Communist Revolution. She lost her son and two husbands to the Stalin regime and while most of her works don't completely translate into English, her emotion and ideas are so powerful, it is worth reading her poems. What's even more powerful is that back in those days, you could be jailed and arrested for writing subversive poetry so anything that she wrote, she had to memorize and people only heard through her reciting it or other people memorizing and repeating it.

Category 1- The Martian by Andy Weir

Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him & forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded & completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he’s alive—& even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive. Chances are, though, he won't have time to starve to death. The damaged machinery, unforgiving environment or plain-old "human error" are much more likely to kill him first. But Mark isn't ready to give up yet. Drawing on his ingenuity, his engineering skills—& a relentless, dogged refusal to quit—he steadfastly confronts one seemingly insurmountable obstacle after the next. Will his resourcefulness be enough to overcome the impossible odds against him?

Ethan wrote: "Category 1- The Martian by Andy Weir

Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person t..."

I just saw the movie preview on FaceBook.

Tami wrote: "Ethan wrote: "Category 1- The Martian by Andy Weir

Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the ..."

Me too! Its been on my kindle for a while, but that preview really made me want to read the book!

Category 2 - Jabberwocky and Other Nonsense by Lewis Carroll ISBN 014119278X
I have been wanting to read a poetry book for a while and I write all my poems in an Alice in Wonderland Journal. It only fits!

The Blurb: The book will be a lot of nonsensical poetry by the author of Alice in Wonderland probably a lot of it having to do with Alice in Wonderland. A lot of Lewis Caroll's work (including his poetry) has inspired the mainstream media.