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I Never Had it Made by Jackie Robinson |
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6 | 46.15% |
The Greengage Summer by Rumer Godden |
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3 | 23.08% |
The Summer Book by Tove Jansson |
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5 | 38.46% |
Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury |
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8 | 61.54% |
The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West |
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3 | 23.08% |
The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley |
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6 | 46.15% |
Atonement by Ian McEwan |
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5 | 38.46% |
Long Summer Day by R.F. Delderfield |
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3 | 23.08% |
A Hundred Summers by Beatriz Williams |
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1 | 7.69% |
A Man's Got to Have a Hobby: Long Summers with My Dad by William McInnes |
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4 | 30.77% |
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Vote for July 2018 • Some Like It Hot: Summer
Let's select the book we'll read and discuss in July 2018! All are welcome to vote, but please don't vote unless you plan to participate in the discussion, whatever the selection. This is a ![]() Choices: I Never Had it Made by Jackie Robinson [Dazrin, issybird, CRussel] Amazon US $7.99 | Amazon CA | Amazon UK (paper only) | Kobo CA $9.99 Spoiler:
320 pages
The Greengage Summer by Rumer Godden [Bookpossum, bfisher, Bookworm_Girl] Kobo: $US9.89, $C12.09, £6.47, $A2.99 | Amazon US $8.99 Spoiler:
196 pages
The Summer Book by Tove Jansson [Bookworm_Girl, Bookpossum, gmw] Amazon US $8.99 | Amazon UK £3.79 | Amazon CA $6.29 | Amazon AU $6.15 | Kobo | Overdrive Spoiler:
170 pages
Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury [latepaul, gmw, astrangerhere] Amazon UK £3.99 | Kobo US $12.99 | Kobo Aus $5.99 | Overdrive Spoiler:
338 pages
The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West [astrangerhere, Catlady, CRussel] Free: Manybooks | Gutenberg | LibriVox (Audio) Spoiler:
110 pages
The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley. [latepaul, issybird, Bookworm_Girl] Amazon UK £4.99 | Kobo US $10.99 | Kobo Aus$14.99 | Overdrive Spoiler:
344 pages
Atonement by Ian McEwan [Catlady, issybird, Bookpossum] Amazon U.S. $11.99 | Kobo U.S. $11.99 |Amazon UK £4.99 | Kobo UK £4.99 | Amazon Ca $12.99 | Kobo Ca $12.99 | OverDrive | Scribd Spoiler:
370 pages
Long Summer Day by R.F. Delderfield [CRussel, bfisher, Dazrin] AmazonUK £4.99 | KoboUK | AmazonAU $12.99 |AmazonCA $5.99 | KoboCA | Overdrive | Kindle Unlimited Spoiler:
688 pages
A Hundred Summers by Beatriz Williams [Catlady, bfisher, orlok] Amazon U.S. $11.99 | Kobo U.S. $11.99 | Amazon UK £3.99 | Kobo UK £3.99 | Amazon Ca $8.99 | Kobo Ca $8.99 | Amazon Au $3.99 | Kobo Au $9.99 | OverDrive | Scribd Spoiler:
369 pages
A Man's Got to Have a Hobby: Long Summers with My Dad by William McInnes [gmw, Dazrin, orlok] Amazon US $10.99 | Amazon UK £4.49 | Amazon CA $11.99 | Amazon AU $11.99 | Kobo US $10.99 | Kobo UK £4.49 | Kobo CA $11.99 | Kobo AU $11.99 Spoiler:
288 pages
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Looks like folks are in a vintage sci-fi mood...
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I don't think of Dandelion Wine as sci-fi, it's essentially straight fiction influenced by memoir and magic realism, IMO. I loved it and I'm no sci-fi fan.
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Touche. I think of magical realism as a sub-genre, but one that I enjoy immensely. But, then again, I also categorize most Murakami as MR, and he is one of my favorite authors.
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This list is fantastic! It was difficult to vote because I could read them all. In the end, I went with my usual method to vote for half. Oddly I didn't vote for the 3 that I already own! I picked the ones that captured the essence of summer that I'm in the mood to read.
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Yes, I think we'll have fun reading the final winner, and also several of the others in the list. And, in my case, at least one that never got nominated, but that the discussion highlighted. A good month for discovery!
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Well, I've just read A Hundred Summers over Memorial Day weekend. And, I've got The Summer Book on hold at the library. So I'm already on my way to reading more than one in the list this month!
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And Dandelion Wine it is. I'll get a (closed) thread going in a while for a visual reminder.
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There is no escape! That’s good news and I hope you have enough time to enjoy it, orlok.
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