01-02-2018, 04:10 PM | #46 |
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FYI: Some page lengths for books that have made it through the nominations.
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Not sure we really need more, we have some great choices already, but I will nominate: The Crimson Chalice by Victor Canning.
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169 pages. Around $3. Goodreads Amazon US Kobo |
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01-02-2018, 05:46 PM | #48 |
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I will third The Amber Fury. It was shortlisted for the 2014 Deanston Scottish Crime Book of the Year Award, which "provides Scottish crime writing with recognition and aims to raise the profile and prestige of the genre as a whole." The author is a UK journalist and broadcaster and has been a judge for both the Man Booker and Orange Prizes.
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01-02-2018, 05:48 PM | #49 |
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I will second The Crimson Chalice - sounds like a good read!
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Besides, I haven't come up with an alternative for my selection yet. |
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01-02-2018, 06:06 PM | #51 | |
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If any of the other listed page numbers are Kindle page numbers, then they too could be wrong. Kindle page numbers are supposed to match some pBook version at the time it was made. This is obviously not so as we see here. And finally, when looking at the length of these eBooks, remember, we have more time to read than we did before. |
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01-02-2018, 07:10 PM | #52 |
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01-02-2018, 07:48 PM | #53 |
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However, as a great example of how the book club leads to new discoveries, his only available US ebook is travel essays about England in the 1930s and looks like an enjoyable read! It's called Everyman's England and was published by his estate in 2012.
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01-02-2018, 07:53 PM | #54 |
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Curious. I had a assumed that it must be available because I can see a Kindle edition on the amazon.com site. The page I see shows the edition is "Sold by: Macmillan", I wonder if that might be the cause of some sort of regional restriction.
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01-02-2018, 08:19 PM | #55 |
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I third The Color Purple
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I'm also going to nominate The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen.
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01-03-2018, 01:32 AM | #58 |
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Those extra U's are helpful if you pick up the Q when playing Scrabble!
I second The Snow Leopard - the book sounds fascinating and the creature is so rare and so beautiful, I can't resist it. If you don't know them, here's one I photographed in Melbourne Zoo some years ago. |
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Snow Leopard's been on my TBR for years. My two Goodreads friends who have read it have rated it five stars. I thought the infographic on World Hum which purports to show "The 100 Most Celebrated Travel Books of All Time" while highlighting the top ten (Snow Leopard is ninth) was fun. And I've never even heard of Video Night in Kathmandu! |
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I will third The Snow Leopard. Sounds fascinating! I read the preview, and the biography blurb says he is the only author to have won the National Book Award for both fiction and nonfiction.
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