The Next Best Book Club discussion

Polls are now open for voting. To the right of the group home page you will see the poll option, click it and vote away.

The site will only allow you to vote for one book per catagory, however you can change your vote as many times as you like up until closing time.

The polls will remain open until July 27th which is Monday.




OK, Im a little late with this, but I wanted to make sure I started on a Monday. So, here we go!

We will have two catagories this month:
Cat1- Regular Fiction/Non-Fiction
Cat2- Book and Movie Deal

If you choose to nominate a book for catagory 2, I think we would all prefer it not be one currently in the movies (as that can get expensive).

Only ONE nomination per person.

Please be sure to post the title, author, and the catagory it belongs to.

If your post does not have those three things, it will not be counted.

Are you ready?
I will leave nominations open until Wednesday nite.....

Go.....

Cat2-Atonement by Ian McEwan

My apologies, I'm new to this and misunderstood the instructions...

Category 2-The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Ahem... Becca... Check out the rules please.
ONE nomination per person, not one per catagory.
I need you to please edit your post to show the one you wish to nominate most.

Thanks :)

Fiona will love me for this ;)

Category 2- North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

Fiona wrote: "I love you!"

I know.

Cat 2 - The Reader by Bernhard Schlink

Cat 2- The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

Cat 1 - The Necklace Thirteen Women and the Experiment That Transformed Their Lives byCheryl Jarvis

Becca, its ok. When I post for nominations and voting, I always put rules up. I'll let it slide this time, and chalk it up to be over-excited :)
((wink wink))

Cat 1 - The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards

Cat 2 - No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

The Memory Keeper's Daughter is also a movie, but since it was on Lifetime, not sure if it is available to rent.

Choke by Chuck Palahniuk for Category #2.

Cat 1 - The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

I'm not sure what the group has read or not read but I was thinking about Marley & me Cat 2

Cat 1 - The Shack by William P. Young

The Positronic Man by Isaac Asimov - Cat. 2.

Keith wrote: "Julie and Julia My Year of Cooking Dangerously - Suggestion for August "

Keith, which category?

'Lolita' Vladimir Nabokov - cat 2

The Help by Katherine Stockett cat 1

this is a website that pairs books with their movies, very comprehensive
http://www.mcpl.lib.mo.us/readers/mov...

Stephanie wrote: "I'm not sure what the group has read or not read but I was thinking about Marley & me Cat 2"


Stephanie, the books we have read as a group are all the books on the bookshelf here.

Wendy wrote: "this is a website that pairs books with their movies, very comprehensive
http://www.mcpl.lib.mo.us/readers/mov...
"


Wendy, the link is not working :(

Category 1-Somebody Else's Daughter by Elizabeth Brundage

Category 2- The Boy in The Striped Pajamas by John Boyne

Robin, we can only vote for one category!

Oh.. my bad! I misunderstood- thought we could do one per category. Then my nomination is for Category 2..The Boy in The Striped Pajamas.

Category 1: Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum

cat 2
Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand

Category 2:

Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

We dont need to second anyones nominations. I didnt put that in the original post, and perhaps I should have. Every nomination that has all the required information is automatically entered into the voting polls.

Cat 1: The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson.

Category 2:

The City of Ember by Jeanne Duprau

Category 2:
Shogun by James Clavell

Category 2: The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

Just read it recently and I totally loved it. Such a sweet, funny, sad, heartbreaking, and uplifting book. And not long at all. It's the very definition of a "Good Read." :)

Cat 2 - Atonement by Ian McEwan

Cat 2: What Dreams May Come--Richard Matheson

Cat 2:The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy.

Cat2: The Hours by Michael Cunningham

I'll nominate it for Category 1 even though there is a film:

Life of Pi by Yann Martel [image error]

There is also a world wide read along going on during the month of August:
http://www.lifeofpi.co.uk/

Cat 2 - The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas.

Category 2: Must Love Dogs

Cat 2: The Cider House Rules-John Irving

caterogy two Twilight

Katie and Amy, your entries do not count since someone already nominated that book. Please delete your choices and repost a new one for me. thanks!

Cat 2:The Reader

Category 2: The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

Here is yesterdays pull:


Cat1
Dance Dance Dance - Haruki Murakami
The Necklace Thirteen Women and the Experiment That Transformed Their Lives - Cheryl Jarvis
The Memory Keeper's Daughter - Kim Edwards
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
The Shack - William P. Young
The Help - Katherine Stockett
Somebody Else's Daughter - Elizabeth Brundage
Those Who Save Us - Jenna Blum
The Gargoyle - Andrew Davidson
Life of Pi - Yann Martel



Cat2
Atonement - Ian McEwan
North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell
The Reader - Bernhard Schlink
The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri
No Country for Old Men - Cormac McCarthy
Choke - Chuck Palahniuk
The Positronic Man - Isaac Asimov
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
The Boy in The Striped Pajamas - John Boyne
Seabiscuit - Laura Hillenbrand
Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton
The City of Ember - Jeanne Duprau
Shogun - James Clavell
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
What Dreams May Come - Richard Matheson
The Hunt for Red October - Tom Clancy
The Hours - Michael Cunningham
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
The Cider House Rules - John Irving
The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides


***If you do not see your nomination here, it is because it does not have all the required information that was listed in Post#1. In order to have them added to the list, you must delete your original post (since it was posted prior to this list, since I am not backtracking old posts from here) and post a NEW nomination with all three required pcs of information.

And again, there is no need to nominate a book that has already been nominated. You are basically just wasting your turn. So go ahead and post a new nomination. Just remember.... ONE NOMINATION PER PERSON, NOT ONE PER CATAGORY!

Thanks, and keep those noms coming. We still have two more days to get it in... today, and tomorrow!

Hi, new to the site and new to the group. Very excited to be here.

cat2 - The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger