[asmb] Book Club discussion

April is sneaking up on us so it seemed like a good time to ask for submissions for next months BOTM.

Hrm. My last suggestion didn't go so well. >_>


I'll go with a book I've already started (only about a chapter into it)!

Buddha: A Story of Enlightenment by Deepak Chopra



Something different and it should provide good discussions.

One of the things I'm reading right now is Mastering Color Knitting: Simple Instructions for Stranded, Intarsia, and Double Knitting, but I doubt it'd make a good discussion book.

I'm try to think of something to nominate. Almost everything I'm reading is well into a series. My mind's blank right now. I just wanted to post my knitting book. It's got pretty pictures.

JK, I've nominated some books that didn't go so well too. *shrug* That's life.

Random toss-in nomination from the weird one:

'The Elvenbane' - by Andre Norton and Mercedes Lackey.

The disclaimer is that it's actually book one of a trilogy but it wasn't written like that because they didn't expect to go that route.

I am still trying to think of something to nominate... lol

I have one...

You Shall Never Know Security

will put up the poll on Friday.

in till then feel free to try to shame, beg or blackmail formerly active members to come back.

:)

I'll nominated Soulless, it is the first book in a series but very fun and quick read. This is actually one of my top fave books but I doubt anyone here has read it, except maybe JK we have similar tastes. It's also a good introductions to Steampunk for ppl who don't really get what the whole love of it is about. It has steampunk elements but not overly so, which is how I was introduced to this subgenre


Edit.: it also works well enough as a stand alone in a sense that the first book doesn't leave you with burning questions that you have to read the whole thing to answer. Also its last book was released two months back so if anyone did fall in love with it you won't have to wait for new books to be released they are all available

Poll is up!

My post disappeared. I posted it on the 28th. It wasn't naughty or anything so I'm reposting it. Cuz I have Lazarus(it's an awesome ad-on).

Katt_goddess wrote: "Random toss-in nomination from the weird one:

'The Elvenbane' - by Andre Norton and Mercedes Lackey.

The disclaimer is that it's actually book one of a trilogy but it wasn't written like that bec..."

Andre Norton was one of my favorite authors in elementary school. My library had almost all of her books. She's one of the authors who go me into sci fi and fantasy. I've never read one of her co-authored books though. Are they like her books written alone?

I'm still trying to think of a book to nominate. But since you guys have nominated several I'm not too worried about it.

Edit: Oh, wait, did one of you mods delete me for being off topic?

I never even saw it. So that's weird in general.

No, I didn't see it either. Are you sure it went through? Wait, are you talking about the third post? It was on the 27th, but that's all I have seen/see.

For the record, I've never really had to mod anything here and I've only deleted one post, but that was an accident. >_<

Nope, it was two separate posts. I think the site here eats posts once in a while. I've had a comment disappear too. No big deal. I just wanted to relive my Andre Norton reading from back when I read books that were too old for me. Now I'm catching up on books I didn't read then. :D My excuse is reading them before I give them to one of the kids. Then I know they're appropriate. Cuz, yeah, I'm the reading police.

Nothing wrong with being the reading police. Some of the crap my mom let me read, I still wouldn't voluntarily hand to my daughter and she's 19.
Yeah I was one of those moms, If a book seemed questionable I read it before my kids to see if it Was ok for them to read.

Mary wrote: "Andre Norton was one of my favorite authors in elementary school. My library had almost all of her books. She's one of the authors who go me into sci fi and fantasy. I've never read one of her co-authored books though. Are they like her books written alone? "

I would have to say that this particular collaboration is a good fit since I've read a lot from both of the authors separately and I didn't feel that the Halfbood Chronicles were overwhelmingly taken with either author's voice exclusively. It's a cohesive story rather than a battle of authors [at least to me]. It's not Valdemar [Lackey] and it's not Xandu [Norton] - it is it's own world.

Is The Elvenbane a chilren's book or YA?

just curious...

Nora aka Diva wrote: "Is The Elvenbane a chilren's book or YA?

just curious..."

Over 500 pages, no pictures and it starts out with a pregnant concubine. :D But the main human is a teenager type. So it's hard to say because in a library setting, it would be shelved with the 'heavier' sci-fi / fantasty books. Could be a YA but more closer to the last couple of Harry Potter books YA and not Hunger Games YA. If that makes sense. :D

I thought it was an adult book. Andre Norton writes both, so it could be either. It just seemed like one of her heavier storylines to me. Of course none of her YA titles are sweetness and light either. I'm not familiar with Mercedes Lackey, so I can't speak to her.

I started reading You Shall Never Know Security and changed my vote cuz honestly what I shall never know is why it's so highly recommended. BORRRIIIINGG!!!!

Mary wrote: "I thought it was an adult book. Andre Norton writes both, so it could be either. It just seemed like one of her heavier storylines to me. Of course none of her YA titles are sweetness and light ..."

Personally I would call it an adult book. It was one of those books my uncle gave me ages and ages ago for holidays and he never 'bought down' for me - no little kid books just because of my age.

I've just met some people who have issues with any story that focuses on teenager[s] and scream 'YA' immediately which is why I'm waffling on the exact definition.

Lackey tends to write with mostly teenager-type focuses too but people tend to die or are otherwise savaged and she's even had a trilogy within a series where the main character was gay so I tend to put her in the adult book category no matter what.