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February 2013 Book Club Nominations
![]() February 2013 Nominations Help us select the next book that the MobileRead Book Club will read for February, 2013. The nominations will run through midnight EST January 30 or until 10 books have made the list. The poll will then be posted and will remain open for 5 days. Book selection category for February is: Romance 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. * In case of a first or second place tie in the first voting poll, the run-off poll may have more than two choices. Official choices with three nominations each: (1) Portrait of Jennie by Robert Nathan Amazon US Spoiler:
(2) Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov Inkmesh / Amazon US / Barnes & Noble Spoiler:
(3) Circle of Friends by Maeve Binchy Inkmesh / Amazon US / Barnes & Noble Spoiler:
(4) The Greatest Knight by Elizabeth Chadwick Inkmesh / Amazon US / Barnes & Noble Spoiler:
(5) Shards of Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold Inkmesh / Amazon US / Barnes & Noble Spoiler:
(6) Outlander by Diana Gabaldon Inkmesh / Amazon US / Barnes & Noble Spoiler:
(7) Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen Amazon US / Amazon UK / Barnes & Noble / Google / Sony Spoiler:
(8) A Town Like Alice by Neville Shute Amazon US / Barnes & Noble / Sony Spoiler:
(9) Love Story by Erich Segal Amazon US / Barnes & Noble / Sony Spoiler:
(10) Stardust by Neil Gaiman Amazon US / Barnes & Noble / Sony Spoiler:
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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. In addition, if members let me know that an ebook is unavailable in a particular geographic location, I'll note it in this post, right beside the Inkmesh search for that particular book.
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Thank you John F for the Library Availability List (Post # 8) Nominations: *** Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov [issybird, Synamon, sun surfer] Amazon US / Barnes & Noble Spoiler:
*** The Greatest Knight by Elizabeth Chadwick [Nyssa, medard, Tattncat] Amazon US / Barnes & Noble / Sony Spoiler:
*** Portrait of Jennie by Robert Nathan [fantasyfan, issybird, Synamon] Amazon US Spoiler:
*** Circle of Friends by Maeve Binchy [John F, Nyssa, fantasyfan] Amazon US / Barnes & Noble / Sony Spoiler:
*** Outlander by Diana Gabaldon [John F, Nyssa, fantasyfan] Amazon US / Barnes & Noble / Sony Spoiler:
*** Shards of Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold [JSWolf, medard, WT Sharpe] Baen (All formats) / Amazon US / Barnes & Noble Spoiler:
*** Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen [caleb72, JSWolf, Bookatarian] Amazon US / Amazon UK / Barnes & Noble / Google / Sony Spoiler:
*** Stardust by Neil Gaiman [Bookatarian, John F, Grey Ram] Amazon US / Barnes & Noble / Sony Spoiler:
* Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese [Hamlet53] Amazon US / Barnes & Noble / Sony Spoiler:
* Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami [Hamlet53] Amazon US / Barnes & Noble / Sony Spoiler:
* Maurice by E. M. Forster [sun surfer] Amazon US / Barnes & Noble {Paper Only - No ebook editions} Spoiler:
** Trilby by George du Maurier [issybird, Billi] Amazon US / Barnes & Noble / Sony / ManyBooks Spoiler:
*** A Town Like Alice by Neville Shute [Billi, Asawi, BelleZora] Amazon US / Barnes & Noble / Sony Spoiler:
* Arch of Triumph by Erich Maria Remarque [Billi] Amazon US / Barnes & Noble {Paper Only - No ebook editions} Spoiler:
*** Love Story by Erich Segal [sun surfer, medard, Grey Ram] Amazon US / Barnes & Noble / Sony Spoiler:
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I'd like to nominate Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell.
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Gone with the Wind was chosen in February 2010.
If you are interested in an overview of all the books read in the bookclub already - Elfwreck has kindly put them together in this thread: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=144343 |
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o saeclum infacetum
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Nothing yet, eh? I'll kick things off by nominating Lolita. The description cribbed from Amazon:
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I nominate Greatest Knight (William Marshal) by Elizabeth Chadwick.
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I will nominate Portrait of Jennie by Robert Nathan.
In this gentle novel, Nathan uses the device of "time-slip" to create one of the most haunting, moving and beautiful romances ever written. Many are familiar with the love of two people separated in time from the wonderful film of the same name. In fact, the book is even better. Where the film did make changes, they were usually inferior to the original conception of the author. It is available in ebook format from Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Portrait-of-Je...+Robert+Nathan Last edited by fantasyfan; 01-20-2013 at 10:25 AM. |
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Library availability.
l'Arc de Triomphe by Erich Maria Remarque (Unavailable) A Circle of Friends by Maeve Binchy (Overdrive) Cutting For Stone by Abraham Verghese (Overdrive) LINK TO BE FILLED IN The Greatest Knight by Elizabeth Chadwick (Overdrive) Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (Overdrive) Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami (Overdrive) LINK TO BE FILLED IN Maurice by E. M. Forster (Public domain) Outlander by Diana Gabaldon (Overdrive) Portrait of Jennie (Unavailable) Shards of Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold (Unavailable) Stardust by Neil Gaiman (Overdrive) A Town Like Alice by Neville Shute (Public domain, MR) Trilby by George du Maurier (Public domain) Water For Elephants by Sara Gruen (Overdrive) Overdrive is U.S. Centric, and a link is provided. Public domain is Life +50 centric. (Through post #82) Last edited by John F; 01-21-2013 at 01:46 PM. |
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I'll nominate a Circle of Friends by Maeve Binchy.
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I'll nominate Outlander by Diana Gabaldon.
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Second Lolita and third Portrait of Jennie.
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Third Lolita.
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