08-19-2014, 10:38 PM | #1 |
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September 2014 Book Club Nominations
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September 2014 Nominations Help us select the book that the MobileRead Book Club will read for September, 2014. The nominations will run through midnight EST August 31 or until 10 books have made the list. The poll will then be posted and will remain open for five days. Book selection category for September is: Banned or Challenged Books In order for a book to be included in the poll it needs THREE NOMINATIONS (original nomination, a second and a third). How Does This Work? The Mobile Read Book Club (MRBC) is an informal club that requires nothing of you. Each month a book is selected by polling. On the last week of that month a discussion thread is started for the book. If you want to participate feel free. There is no need to "join" or sign up. All are welcome. How Does a Book Get Selected? Each book that is nominated will be listed in a poll at the end of the nomination period. The book that polls the most votes will be the official selection. How Many Nominations Can I Make? Each participant has 3 nominations. You can nominate a new book for consideration or nominate (second, third) one that has already been nominated by another person. How Do I Nominate a Book? Please just post a message with your nomination. If you are the FIRST to nominate a book, please try to provide an abstract to the book so others may consider their level of interest. How Do I Know What Has Been Nominated? Just follow the thread. This message will be updated with the status of the nominations as often as I can. If one is missed, please just post a message with a multi-quote of the 3 nominations and it will be added to the list ASAP. When is the Poll? The poll thread will open at the end of the nomination period, or once there have been 10 books with 3 nominations each. At that time a link to the initial poll thread will be posted here and this thread will be closed. The floor is open to nominations. Please comment if you discover a nomination is not available as an ebook in your area. Official choices with three nominations each: (1) The Giver by Lois Lowry Amazon US / Goodreads Spoiler:
(2) The Call of the Wild by Jack London Patricia Clark Memorial Library: ePub Spoiler:
(3) To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee Amazon Ca / Amazon UK / Amazon US / Angus & Robertson / B&N / Google Play / Kobo US / Overdrive Spoiler:
(4) Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling Amazon UK / Amazon US / Barnes & Noble / Overdrive UK / Overdrive US / Pottermore GBP / Pottermore USD Spoiler:
(5) The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck Amazon Spoiler:
(6) Rabbit Run by John Updike No links provided. Spoiler:
(7) The Country Girls by Edna O'Brien Amazon Au / Amazon UK / Goodreads Spoiler:
(8) Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Patricia Clark Memorial Library: Kindle | Kindle (Omnibus) | ePub Spoiler:
(9) Fanny Hill: Memoirs for a Woman of Pleasure by John Cleland Amazon US / Feedbooks / Project Gutenberg Spoiler:
(10) A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess Amazon Au / Amazon Ca / Amazon UK / Amazon US / Barnes & Noble/ Goodreads/ OverDrive Spoiler:
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08-19-2014, 10:38 PM | #2 |
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Wondering if a particular book is available in your country? The following spoiler contains a list of bookstores outside the United States you can search. If you don't see a bookstore on this list for your country, find one that is, send me the link via PM, and I'll add it to the list.
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*** Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain [GA Russell, bfisher, issybird] Patricia Clark Memorial Library: Kindle | Kindle (Omnibus) | ePub Spoiler:
*** The Call of the Wild by Jack London [crich70, ccowie, Dazrin] Patricia Clark Memorial Library: ePub Spoiler:
*** The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck [treadlightly, GA Russell, orlok] Amazon Spoiler:
** Les Miserables by Victor Hugo [John F, issybird] No links provided. Spoiler:
*** To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee [JSWolf, BelleZora, caleb72] Amazon Ca / Amazon UK / Amazon US / Angus & Robertson / B&N / Google Play / Kobo US / Overdrive Spoiler:
*** Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling [JSWolf, Dazrin. caleb72] Amazon UK / Amazon US / Barnes & Noble / Overdrive UK / Overdrive US / Pottermore GBP / Pottermore USD Spoiler:
** Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison [drofgnal, CRussel] No links provided. Spoiler:
*** The Giver by Lois Lowry [sun surfer, treadlightly, WT Sharpe] Amazon US / Goodreads Spoiler:
*** Rabbit Run by John Updike [ccowie, sun surfer, orlok] No links provided. Spoiler:
*** Fanny Hill: Memoirs for a Woman of Pleasure by John Cleland [obs20, issybird, crich70] Amazon US / Feedbooks / Project Gutenberg Spoiler:
*** The Country Girls by Edna O'Brien [sun surfer, orlok, BelleZora] Amazon Au / Amazon UK / Goodreads Spoiler:
*** A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess [Luffy, WT Sharpe, BelleZora] Amazon Au / Amazon Ca / Amazon UK / Amazon US / Barnes & Noble/ Goodreads/ OverDrive Spoiler:
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08-20-2014, 01:57 AM | #3 |
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I nominate Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain.
It's been quite a while since I have read of its being challenged, but back in the '70s it was an annual event for parents of public school children to object to its presence in the schools' libraries because it includes the use of the "n-word." I read it when I was in the eighth grade, and I'm sure that as an adult I would get much more out of it now. It's free at MobileRead's Patricia Clark Library. Kindle https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=40303 or https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=14089 ePub https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=193287 |
08-20-2014, 07:13 AM | #5 |
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I second Huckleberry Finn.
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08-20-2014, 08:07 AM | #6 |
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I nominate the Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck. Apparently it was banned in California due to its portrayal of the locals. I have visited Salinas, CA but have never read the book.
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08-20-2014, 08:37 AM | #7 |
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I'll nominate Les Miserables by Victor Hugo. Banned/censored by the Catholic church.
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In 1929. I found the info here:click
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08-20-2014, 09:47 AM | #11 |
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Yeah I know what you mean, but people will start a movement to ban just about anything for any reason. I remember hearing once that some people objected to Beatrix Potter's Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle because in one picture there is a tub full of apples and they thought she was making hard cider.
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I'll nominate one that's very much a classic and is very good too. Well worth another read if you've already read it.
I nominate To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee Quote:
Kobo: http://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebo...-mockingbird-3 B&N: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/to-k...=9780062368683 Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/books/...d=PGR2AwAAQBAJ Amazon US: http://www.amazon.com/Kill-Mockingbi...+a+mockingbird Angus & Robertson: http://www.angusrobertson.com.au/ebo.../9781473517714 Amazon UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kill-Mocking...+a+mockingbird Last edited by JSWolf; 08-21-2014 at 02:36 PM. |
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And just because I can, I'm going to nominate Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone aka Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J. K. Rowling
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Overdrive: UK: https://www.overdrive.com/media/7902...osophers-stone Pottermore: https://shop.pottermore.com/en_US/hp...nglish-us1-usd Pottermore: https://shop.pottermore.com/en_GB/hp...nglish-gb1-gbp Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/Harry-Potter-S...erer%27s+Stone Amazon:co.uk: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Harry-Potter...s=harry+potter B&N: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/harr...=9781781100271 Last edited by JSWolf; 08-20-2014 at 03:32 PM. |
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08-20-2014, 11:22 AM | #14 |
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I was going to nominate all groups most hated book, Catcher in the Rye, but it's not available as an ebook. So my nomination is:
Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison, 1952 Ellison’s book won the 1953 National Book Award for Fiction because it expertly dealt with issues of black nationalism, Marxism and identity in the twentieth century. Considered to be too expert in its ruminations for some high schools, the book was banned from high school reading lists and schools in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Washington state. |
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