02-19-2015, 10:22 AM | #1 |
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March 2015 Book Club Nominations
MobileRead Book Club March 2015 Nominations
Help us select the book that the MobileRead Book Club will read for March, 2015. The nominations will run through midnight EST February 28 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 March is: Travel/Adventure 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. The nominations for March are now closed. Official choices with three nominations each: (1) West with the Night by Beryl Markham Amazon US / Audible / Kobo Spoiler:
(2) The Last Grain Race by Eric Newby No links provided. Spoiler:
(3) Timeline by Michael Crichton Goodreads | Amazon US / Google Play / Kobo CA / Overdrive US / Overdrive Spoiler:
(4) Lost Horizon by James Hilton Goodreads | Amazon Au / Amazon Ca / Amazon US / Kobo Spoiler:
(5) A Lady Cyclist's Guide To Kashgar by Suzanne Joinson Amazon US Spoiler:
(6) South by Ernest Shackleton Goodreads | Amazon US / Kobo US Spoiler:
(7) Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Albert Lansing Amazon US / Kobo Spoiler:
(8) The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain [I]The Patricia Clark Memorial Library: ePub / Kindle Spoiler:
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02-19-2015, 10:22 AM | #2 |
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March 2015 Book Club Nominations
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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* Visit Sunny Chernobyl: And Other Adventures in the World's Most Polluted Places by Andrew Blackwell [HomeInMyShoes] Goodreads | Amazon Au / Amazon Ca / Amazon UK / Amazon US Spoiler:
*** Timeline by Michael Crichton [treadlightly, JSWolf, Luffy] Goodreads | Amazon US / Google Play / Kobo CA / Overdrive US / Overdrive Spoiler:
*** West with the Night by Beryl Markham [CRussel, Luffy, BelleZora] Amazon US / Audible / Kobo Spoiler:
*** The Last Grain Race by Eric Newby [issybird, BelleZora, sun surfer] No links provided. Spoiler:
* The Blood Cell by James Gross [JSWolf] Amazon UK / Amazon US / Barnes & Noble / eBooks / Foyles / Google Play / Kobo / Overdrive / Waterstones Spoiler:
*** Lost Horizon by James Hilton [sun surfer, crich70, Bookworm_Girl] Goodreads | Amazon Au / Amazon Ca / Amazon US / Kobo Spoiler:
*** A Lady Cyclist's Guide To Kashgar by Suzanne Joinson [obs20, treadlightly, ccowie] Amazon US Spoiler:
* Rowed Trip by Colin and Julie Angus [ccowie] No links provided. Spoiler:
* The Longest Way Home by Andrew McCarthy [Alsicole] Goodreads | Amazon UK / Amazon US / Barnes & Noble / Kobo Spoiler:
*** South by Ernest Shackleton [crich70, CRussel, Dazrin] Goodreads | Amazon US (Illustrated) / Amazon US (Free) / Kobo US Spoiler:
* The Beach by Alex Garland [caleb72] Amazon (UK) / Amazon (US) / Google (AU) / Barnes & Noble / Kobo Spoiler:
*** Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Albert Lansing [CRussel, Dazrin, HomeInMyShoes] Amazon US / Kobo Spoiler:
* I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai with Christina Lamb [WT Sharpe] Goodreads | Amazon Au / Amazon Ca / Amazon UK / Amazon US / Barnes & Noble / Kobo Spoiler:
*** The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain [issybird, HomeInMyShoes, WT Sharpe] [I]The Patricia Clark Memorial Library: ePub / Kindle Spoiler:
The nominations for March are now closed. Last edited by WT Sharpe; 03-01-2015 at 12:09 AM. Reason: Through post #53 |
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02-20-2015, 03:20 AM | #3 |
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March 2015?
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02-20-2015, 12:21 PM | #4 | |
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Someone needs to start off the nominations. The book I really wanted to get behind is unfortunately not available as an eBook. Stupid technology, but I've got a few here, but I want to save my nominations for things other people find, so sticking with one. It's going to be...
Visit sunny Chernobyl : and other adventures in the world's most polluted places by Andrew Blackwell. Quote:
amazon.ca amazon.co.uk amazon.au For those interested, my other choice that was not available was The Cruelest Journey: Six Hundred Miles to Timbuktu |
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02-20-2015, 01:02 PM | #5 | |
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I'm going to take a looser definition of this month's category and expand it to Time Travel/Adventure. I'll nominate Timeline by Michael Crichton. It is 4th on Goodreads Best Time Travel Fiction listopia (as opposed to non-fiction, ha!) and is listed as both Time Travel and Adventure.
Description from Goodreads: Quote:
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02-20-2015, 05:59 PM | #6 |
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West with the Night
Beryl Markham's classic book of East Africa and flying across the Atlantic Ocean -- the wrong way!
Amazon Description: Spoiler:
Though one could argue that this is a biography, and it is that, it's also very much about Africa and the dawn of flying. This is truly one of the great books of the English language. Kindle Unlimited Audible (and WhisperSync) Kobo Overdrive (also three audio versions.) Last edited by CRussel; 02-21-2015 at 11:34 AM. Reason: Added Overdrive link |
02-20-2015, 09:22 PM | #7 |
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This is a terrible category. They don't even have anything to do with each other.
So what does Rick Steves Europe Through the Back Door 2015 have to do with adventure? NOTHING! It's a travel book, not an adventure book. Next year, this bad set of categories should definitely be done away with. Even just having adventure on it's own is not a good idea. |
02-20-2015, 10:01 PM | #8 |
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02-20-2015, 10:10 PM | #9 |
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I find no need to propose a book of my own. I second West with the Night. According to a quote copied from a goodreads review...
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This book needs to win. It's allegedly very good, and I'd love to read it. At less than 300 pages, it won't take up too much time. It's a perfect choice. |
02-21-2015, 08:56 AM | #10 | ||
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I'm nominating The Last Grain Race by Eric Newby.
The description from Goodreads, where it has a rating of 4.22 stars from 301 users: Quote:
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02-21-2015, 09:47 AM | #11 | |
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I'll go for something different. I'll nominate The Blood Cell by James Gross.
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Kobo: https://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/eb...the-blood-cell Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/books/...d=673CAwAAQBAJ Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/Doctor-Who-Blo...the+blood+cell Barnes & Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/doct...the+blood+cell eBooks.com: http://www.ebooks.com/1708823/doctor...ll/goss-james/ Amazon.co.uk: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Doctor-Who-B...the+blood+cell Foyles: http://www.foyles.co.uk/witem/fictio...-9781448142354 Waterstones: https://www.waterstones.com/author/james-goss/13846 Last edited by JSWolf; 02-21-2015 at 03:57 PM. |
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02-21-2015, 10:30 AM | #12 |
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Second The Last Grain Race.
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02-21-2015, 10:32 AM | #13 |
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Third West With the Night.
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02-21-2015, 10:47 AM | #14 |
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I'll second Timeline if the US Overdrive link is added to the listing.
https://www.overdrive.com/media/37866/timeline |
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I nominate Lost Horizon by James Hilton.
From Goodreads: While attempting to escape a civil war, four people are kidnapped and transported to the Tibetan mountains. After their plane crashes, they are found by a mysterious Chinese man. He leads them to a monastery hidden in "the valley of the blue moon" -- a land of mystery and matchless beauty where life is lived in tranquil wonder, beyond the grasp of a doomed world. It is here, in Shangri-La, where destinies will be discovered and the meaning of paradise will be unveiled. Goodreads / Kobo / Amazon US / Amazon CA / Amazon AU |
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