Under 200 Pages! discussion

Book recommendations for the month of August are now open.

HERE ARE THE RULES

✿ Recommend books that are under 200 pages or slightly more than 200 pages will do.
✿ No promotions of any kind!
✿ Please suggest a worthy title for the group to read as a whole.
✿ Each member can nominate one book, and can endorse/second any one of the running nominations.
✿ Moderators have the final say in selecting a book for the poll.
✿ If there are no recommendations, the moderator will select two books for the poll.

Drop your recommendations in the comments

wait...isn't Virginia Woolf's A Room of One’s Own the selection for July because last month it tied with Stars Go Blue?

Berengaria wrote: "wait...isn't Virginia Woolf's A Room of One’s Own the selection for July because last month it tied with Stars Go Blue?"

Thanks for noticing. I mean Nominations for August. Correction made.

Hell's Bottom, Colorado by Laura Pritchett 142 pages

Per Berengaria's message to me I rescind this book and will instead nominate

Running on Red Dog Road: And Other Perils of an Appalachian Childhood by Drema Hall Berkheimer 197 pages about 1940s Appalachia

I'd like to suggest Shipwrecks by Akira Yoshimura

Setting: medieval Japan
Genre: historical, gothic
Year published: 1982
GR page count: 160 to 180 depending on edition.
Where found?: recommended to me as a good book club choice by a different book club

Blurb:
"Isaku is a nine-year-old boy living in a remote, desperately poor fishing village. His people catch barely enough fish to live on, and so must distil salt to sell to neighboring villages. But this industry serves another, more sinister purpose: the fires of the salt cauldrons lure passing ships toward the shore and onto rocky shoals. When a ship runs aground, the villagers slaughter the crew and loot the cargo for rice, wine, and rich delicacies. One day a ship founders on the rocks. But Isaku learns that its cargo is far deadlier than could ever be imagined.

Shipwrecks, the first novel by the great Japanese writer Yoshimura to be translated into English, is a stunningly powerful, Gothic tale of fate and retribution."

♥ Sandi ❣ wrote: "Hell's Bottom"

Sandi,
even if Hell's Bottom doesn't turn out to be the pick for August, I'm going to read it anyway. Really loved Stars Go Blue. Thanks for recommending it!

Berengaria wrote: "♥ Sandi ❣ wrote: "Hell's Bottom"

Sandi,
even if Hell's Bottom doesn't turn out to be the pick for August, I'm going to read it anyway. Really loved Stars Go Blue. Thanks for recommending it!"

You're welcome

Thanks for your suggestion girls

Hey please leave your nominations for the Month of August, so that I can run the polls soon.

Ok. I will drop in my nomination by tonight, if I remember :-)

Austin wrote: "Ok. I will drop in my nomination by tonight, if I remember :-)"

Hahaha…Take your time

I keep forgetting. Give me a final chance tomorrow. It's too late at night now to search and nominate a book.

Austin wrote: "I keep forgetting. Give me a final chance tomorrow. It's too late at night now to search and nominate a book."

Sure time giving till the end of June.

I nominate Palli Samaj: The Homecoming by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay

I nominate The fell by Sarah Moss

Thank you all for your nominations and for those who missed out nominate next time.