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MobileRead Book Club: Future books
Hi All,
The "official" book schedule would have us pick a book for Feb: February MobileRead Contemporary (can be any genre, but must be contemporary and must be available in our library) I was wondering what people thought about rather than doing more nomination/vote threads we just picked the top 3 (non-winner) voted books from December and January votes and just slotted them in for the next 6 months. The books would be: Feb: "The Time Machine" by H.G. Wells (This was actually top three in both votes) Mar Three Men In A Boat - Jerome K Jerome Apr "1632" by Eric Flint May The Man Who Was Thursday - G. K. Chesterton Jun "Snow Crash" by Neal Stephenson Jul The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald Of course, order isn't important. Just let me know what you think. If most don't agree to this I would be happy to start a nomination thread for Feb book next Monday. BOb |
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That sounds like a good idea to me.
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The Time Machine isn't contemporary and thus, doesn't fit in.
Personally, I'd rather go with nominating and voting like we have been. That seems to work best. |
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Well yea. That's part of why I was asking... I know these books don't (may not) fit into the previously established categories.
We could move 1623 up to Feb. It is contemporary. Quote:
Hmm... maybe I should have made this topic a poll. BOb |
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Looks like all the books in the original post won't actually work given what's to go for what months.
February MobileRead Contemporary (can be any genre, but must be contemporary and must be available in our library) March Nonfiction (can be from anywhere, including our library) April MobileRead Author (must be a book from an author who frequents MobileRead) May Horror (can be from anywhere, including our library) June MobileRead Classic July Humor (can be from anywhere, including our library) August MobileRead Contemporary September Mystery (can be from anywhere, including our library) October MobileRead Author |
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I don't know, I like the fact that the book club will get me into new genres.
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I enjoy following the nomination process - seeing what books get nominated, and the little flurries of discussion that ensue, is very informative.
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I am very much in favour of sticking with the original "plan". There's nothing to stop anyone opening a discussion thread on their favourite book even if it didn't "win" a poll.
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Is there a simple way to identify "MobileRead Contemporary" books in the upload section? Searching for creative commons is the best I could come up with.
If an ebook has been released under creative commons presumably it could be uploaded here if this has not yet been done. |
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I'd rather stay with nominating and voting.
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