The Next Best Book Club discussion

Please read the rules for nominating BEFORE you create your post!! And Check our bookshelves to be sure you are not nominating something we have already read as a group!

We will have two catagories this month:
Cat1- Regular Fiction/Non-Fiction
Cat2- Christmas Theme


Only ONE nomination per person.
If you nominate a book for catagory 1, you CANNOT nominate a book for catagory 2, and visa versa.

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 accept nominations through Wednesday evening. If we get tons of nominations, I may pull the plug on it a little early, so get them in as soon as you can!

Once I close nominations I will create the polls and let you know when it is time to vote!

Hit us with your best noms!

A Redbird Christmas for category 2.

I searched the bookshelf, I don't believe I saw it. But correct me if I'm wrong, and I'll figure out another.

Cat1: Post Office by Charles Bukowski

Cat 2. The Christmas Train - David Baldacci

Kristi, you're fine.
Gitte, great book!

Can we nominate a book that has been nominated before and did not win?

As long as it was not voted in as a group read, yes you can!

Category 1:

I would like to renominate The Birth House by Ami McKay :o)

Category 1: The Power and the Glory-Graham Greene

Category 2: The Christmas Chronicles: The Legend of Santa Claus by Tom Slover

Cat. 1: Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell

Category 2: Visions of Sugar Plums

Category 1: The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey by Walter Mosley

Category 1: The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom

category 1: the glass house by jeannette walls

I nominate a non-fiction choice in Category 1: The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival byJohn Vaillant

Category 1; Fiction:
The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell

This is a group of four novels. In the first, Justine, Durrell explores human relationships as told from the perspective of the main protagonist, a youngish school teacher Darley. In Balthazar, Darley comes to understand his relationships through the re-telling from the perspective of a friend. Mountolive is concerned with those characters who were peripheral in the other two books, while the protagonists play smaller roles. The Quartet concludes with Clea, which brings together the different strands of perspective and fuses them in Darley's understanding. The interplay of relationships and perspectives, which both represent and drive plot, occurs against the backgroup of mounting tension in Europe, political intrigue and is set in a lush and beguiling depiction of mid-20th century Alexandria.

What makes Durrell remarkable, apart from wit and brilliant prose, is his ability to tell stories within stories, and weave time lines backwards and forwards. It's almost a literary representation of Einstein's relativity theory (strange as that sounds :D).

Category 1 - Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson, which comes out in paperback on November 30th.

Category 2:Wishin' and Hopin' by Wally Lamb

Category 1 : Zeitoun by Dave Eggers

Cat. 2. The Autobiography of Santa Claus by Jeff Guinn

Cat. 1: The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer

Cat. 1: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Phillip K. Dick

alrighty. Let's see what we're voting on:

Cat1
Post Office - Charles Bukowski
The Birth House - Ami McKay
The Power and the Glory - Graham Greene
Cranford - Elizabeth Gaskell
The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey - Walter Mosley
The Kitchen House - Kathleen Grissom
The Glass House - Jeannette Walls
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival - John Vaillant
The Alexandria Quartet - Lawrence Durrell
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand - Helen Simonson
Zeitoun - Dave Eggers
Enchantment - Orson Scott Card
The House of the Scorpion - Nancy Farmer
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Phillip K. Dick
Cat2
The Christmas Train - David Baldacci
The Christmas Chronicles: The Legend of Santa Claus - Tom Slover
Wishin' and Hopin' - Wally Lamb
The Autobiography of Santa Claus - Jeff Guinn


So that's the line up so far.
You have until later on this evening to get your nominations in. If your nomination is not included in the list - it's because you did not nominate it correctly. Correct it and repost it and I will add it.

Thanks!

Cat2: Hogfather by Terry Pratchett

While this is in the Discworld series, it isn't absolutely necessary that you've read others to enjoy this holiday tale.

Lori wrote: "You have until later on this evening to get your nominations in. If your nomination is not included in the list - it's because you did not nominate it correctly. Correct it and repost it and I will add it."

Cat 2: A Redbird Christmas by Fannie Flagg.

thanks!

Polls going up shortly. Here's the list.

Cat1
Post Office - Charles Bukowski
The Birth House - Ami McKay
The Power and the Glory - Graham Greene
Cranford - Elizabeth Gaskell
The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey - Walter Mosley
The Kitchen House - Kathleen Grissom
The Glass House - Jeannette Walls
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival - John Vaillant
The Alexandria Quartet - Lawrence Durrell
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand - Helen Simonson
Zeitoun - Dave Eggers
Enchantment - Orson Scott Card
The House of the Scorpion - Nancy Farmer
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Phillip K. Dick



Cat2
The Christmas Train - David Baldacci
The Christmas Chronicles: The Legend of Santa Claus - Tom Slover
Wishin' and Hopin' - Wally Lamb
The Autobiography of Santa Claus - Jeff Guinn
A Redbird Christmas - Fannie Flagg
Hogfather - Terry Pratchett

No more nominations! We are closed for the season :)

Ok everyone! Go vote!

One vote per person per category, polls close Nov 23rd.

Dang, dang, dang. I missed nominating Secret Speakers and the Search for Selador's Gate by less than an hour.

SLJ gave it a starred review and compared it to the Narnia novels, so it's got a great Christmas theme, if you know what I mean. Any chance you can add it? Perty please?

Hey Karey, I responded to your email. I'm sorry, but I can't. It wouldn't be fair to everyone else who missed yesterdays cut off....

Lori, in the poll you listed what I believe is supposed to be The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls as "the glass house" I didn't nominate the book but I want to be sure everyone is considering the correct books. :)

Thanks Lahni, I will go and change it. It's always helpful when people post their nominations correctly, but even better when we monitor each other :)

Is anyone else having trouble voting? I've tried twice and it's not working for me :-(

Must be me, now my vote went through but I can't edit or delete the above post.

The website must be having some trouble today. As I am using it I keep getting all kind of error messages.

I'm getting error messages, too, and couldn't load the site last night. I think GR is having issues.

I seem to be missing something, guys. Where does the voting take place? (I think this is one of my Duh! moments!)

At the top of this page on there right hand side you will see a list of topics find polls and click on it you will see the books listed. pick your choice for each category and you will see the leader board come up . The star will be beside your vote.

Thanks, Kitty!

Ok guys. The votes are in -

Your December group reads are-------

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
and
A Redbird Christmas

Discussions will open on the 1st of December! Thanks for voting!

Yeah for a Christmas one!

Oh, I'm glad that the Philip K Dick book made it! I just started that one last week but didn't pick it up again. Perfect opportunity!

Yay Philip K. Dick! I was planning on reading that over the holiday, and now I have an awesome reason to do so. :)

Im happy to see ANDROIDS win. I have this in a bound collection of a bunch of his novels. Might be tempted to kick it up and over my review copies to read along with you guys!