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Ok..so is the second pick randomized or auction. Your post says it will be randomized, but that the next auction will be in May for July books? Unless I’m misreading something....
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Example: I have 4 participation points. I can choose to use those to vote above for book(s) or I can opt to buy lottery tickets. Say I choose to buy 4 lottery tickets. My name will go into the randomizer 4 times and at the end of voting the randomizer will pick one winner to choose our other book.
I don't believe there is an English translation of Lady Number Thirteen.
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Unless
Transit
The Street of Crocodiles"
I really want to read Unless so would be solidly behind that one.
Hi, I've just checked the Points Spreadsheet & I've no entries for April & May. I've not earned any points but I used 2 to vote for the June BOTM. Do I manually subtract these from the spreadsheet? - I think I read somewhere that I'm not meant to.
Sorry for interrupting the book comments flow - I'm a confused newbie :o)
Sorry for interrupting the book comments flow - I'm a confused newbie :o)
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No, don’t subtract. We will do that. Book Worm will update spreadsheet. May isn’t updated until after voting is over.
Kristel wrote: "Diane wrote: "I am leaning most toward one of these:Unless
Transit
The Street of Crocodiles"
I really want to read Unless so would be solidly behind th..."
Transit will get my vote. Lots of good titles here!
Catriona wrote: "Hi, I've just checked the Points Spreadsheet & I've no entries for April & May. I've not earned any points but I used 2 to vote for the June BOTM. Do I manually subtract these from the spreadsheet?..."
Ok, many thanks, Jen.
Ok, many thanks, Jen.
None But the Brave goes by another name, too- I think it’s Lieutenant Gustl (?)
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I added that name, thanks Tracy and Diane for your help.
I have acces to both Transit and Unless and they both sound good.
Kokoro has been highly recommended to me, so rooting for that one!
Fingers crossed, I’ll read Kokoro for this month’s Diversity challenge.
Anita wrote: "Kokoro has been highly recommended to me, so rooting for that one!"You can read that one this month for the Diversity Challenge.
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Sold!
Four of these are in my to-read list- will vote for A Town Like Alice, which is in my #6 spot, and all my GR friends who've read it rated four or five stars!
I would love to read 'A town like Alice' as well :)
I loved A Town Like Alice which I read a couple months ago.
I am reading Kokoro for Diversity this month but would support Unless and A Town Like Alice and anything by Ali Smith
I've read over half the titles and am not excited by most of the rest. But, I do own Memoirs of My Nervous Illness (which I will need the push of a group read to get to sooner rather than later) and Saturday Night and Sunday Morning is available at the library.
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Just to echo Diane - that's an option for this month's diversify 1001 challenge so you can read along with the group now if you want to read that one :)
Jen wrote: "Anita wrote: "Kokoro has been highly recommended to me, so rooting for that one!"Just to echo Diane - that's an option for this month's diversify 1001 challenge so you can read along with the gro..."
Got it.
Probably don't have time, but I won't pick it if I win the lottery since it is already in play.
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Congratulations!
Kristel wrote: "Announcing the winner of the lottery, Anita. Anita, you may pick your book after Jen announces the winner of the popular vote. Congratulations!"
So excited!!! Thank you, Kristel and Jen!!
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Memoirs of My Nervous Illness (other topics)Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (other topics)
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All members will have 1 free vote and if you have enough participation points you may cast up to an additional 4 votes.
This month the second book will be chosen by the auction. You can buy a chance to choose the second book by using participation points.
Participation points: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
Please feel free to make comments about various books, try to persuade people to vote for your preferences or other comments pro or con. Have fun!
Here is the link to the survey monkey for voting. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/8SZKRLQ
1. None But The Brave by Arthur Schnitzler, published 1901, 100 pages. Lieutenant Gustl
2. Memoirs of My Nervous Illness - Daniel Paul Schreber, 1903, 450 pages.
3. The Street of Crocodiles - Bruno Schulz, 1934m 350 pages.
4. To Each His Own - Leonardo Sciascia, 1966, 200 pages.
5. Rob Roy - Walter Scott, 1817, 500 pages
6. Ivanhoe - Walter Scott, 1820, 550 pages.
7. The Monastery - Walter Scott, 1820, 500 pages.
8. Vertigo - W.G. Sebald, 1990, 250 pages
9. The Emigrants - W.G. Sebald, 1992, 250 pages.
10. The Rings of Saturn - W.G. Sebald, 1995, 300 pages.
11. Austerlitz - W.G. Sebald, 2001, 300 pages.
12. Transit - Anna Seghers, 1944, 300 pages.
13. Requiem for a Dream - Hubert Selby Jr., 1978, 300 pages.
14. Great Apes - Will Self, 1997, 400 pages
15. How the Dead Live - Will Self, 2000, 250 pages.
16. Death and the Dervish - Meša Selimović, 1966, 500 pages.
17. The Lonely Londoners - Sam Selvon, 1956, 150 pages.
18. God's Bits of Wood - Ousmane Sembène, 1960, 250 pages.
19. The Case of Comrade Tulayev - Victor Serge, 1949, 350 pages.
20. Retreat Without Song - Shahan Shahnour, 1929, 150 pages.
21. An Obedient Father - Akhil Sharma, 2000, 300 pages.
22. Rickshaw Boy - Lao She, 1936, 300 pages.
23. Frankenstein - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, 1818, 250 pages.
24. The Stone Diaries - Carol Shields, 1993, 250 pages.
25. Unless - Carol Shields, 2002, 200 pages.
26. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute, 1950, 350 pages.
27. Quo Vadis - Henryk Sienkiewicz, 589 pages, 1896.
28. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning - Alan Sillitoe, 1958, 250 pages.
29. Downriver - Iain Sinclair, 1991, 400 pages.
30. London Orbital - Iain Sinclair, 2002, 500 pages.
31. Dining on Stones - Iain Sinclair, 2004, 450 pages.
32. The Life and Death of Harriett Frean - May Sinclair, 1922, 100 pages.
33. The Jungle - Upton Sinclair, 1906, 400 pages.
34. The Magician of Lublin - Isaac Bashevis Singer, 1960 200 pages.
35. The Manor - Isaac Bashevis Singer, 1967, 400 pages.
36. Animal's People - Indra Sinha, 2007, 400 pages.
37. The Engineer of Human Souls - Josef Škvorecký, 1977, 592 pages.
38. The Forbidden Kingdom - Jan Jacob Slauerhoff, 1932, 150 pages.
39. The Accidental - Ali Smith, 2005, 300 pages.
40. White Teeth - Zadie Smith, 2000, 450 pages.
41. On Beauty - Zadie Smith, 2005, 450 pages.
42. The Adventures of Roderick Random - Tobias Smollett, 1748, 200 pages.
43. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker - Tobias Smollett, 1771, 250 pages.
44. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1963, 150 pages.
45. Cancer Ward - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1968, 550 pages.
46. Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. - Edith Somerville, and Ross, 1899, 200 pages.
47. The Real Charlotte Edith Somerville/Ross, 1894, 300 pages.
48. Lady Number Thirteen - José Carlos Somoza, 2003, 450 pages.no English Translation.49. Kokoro - Natsume Sōseki, 1914, 250 pages.
Omitted because of page count
A Suitable Boy
Tale of Genji (1200 pages).
Islands, 750 pages.
Peregrine Pickle, 800 pages
The First Circle, 750 pages.
That is our slate for July.