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July 2015 Book Club Nominations
![]() The nominations will run through midnight EST June 26 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 July is: Non-Fiction 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. Official choices with three nominations each: (1) The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius Patricia Clark Memorial Library: Kindle | Project Gutenberg: Various formats | Librivox (audiobook) Spoiler:
(2) Pitching in a Pinch by Christy Mathewson Amazon US / Barnes & Noble / Kobo Spoiler:
(3) Rites of Peace: The Fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna by Adam Zamoyski Amazon US / Kobo US Spoiler:
(4) The Beer Wench's Guide to Beer: An Unpretentious Guide to Craft Beer by Ashley V. Routson Amazon US Spoiler:
(5) This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women by Dan Gediman and Jay Allison Amazon Ca / Amazon US / Barnes & Noble / Kobo Spoiler:
(6) What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe Amazon Ca / Amazon UK / Amazon US / Barnes and Noble / Google Play / Kobo US Spoiler:
(7) Waterloo by Bernard Cornwell Amazon UK / Amazon US / Audible / Barnes & Noble / Overdrive Spoiler:
The nominations are now closed. Last edited by WT Sharpe; 06-27-2015 at 12:02 AM. Reason: Through post #25 |
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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.
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*** The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius [WT Sharpe, sun surfer, issybird] Patricia Clark Memorial Library: Kindle | Project Gutenberg: Various formats | Librivox (audiobook) Spoiler:
*** Pitching in a Pinch by Christy Mathewson [GA Russell, bfisher, issybird] Amazon US / Barnes & Noble / Kobo Spoiler:
*** What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe [WT Sharpe, Dazrin, CRussel] Amazon Ca / Amazon UK / Amazon US / Barnes and Noble / Google Play / Kobo US Spoiler:
*** Rites of Peace: The Fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna by Adam Zamoyski [issybird, ccowie, bfisher] Amazon US / Kobo US Spoiler:
** The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki [ccowie, GA Russell] No links provided. Spoiler:
*** The Beer Wench's Guide to Beer: An Unpretentious Guide to Craft Beer by Ashley V. Routson [PandathePanda, Hamlet53, GA Russell] Amazon US Spoiler:
*** This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women by Dan Gediman and Jay Allison [WT Sharpe, sun surfer, treadlightly] Amazon Ca / Amazon US / Barnes & Noble / Kobo Spoiler:
*** Waterloo by Bernard Cornwell [CRussel, sun surfer, bfisher] Amazon UK / Amazon US / Audible / Barnes & Noble / Overdrive Spoiler:
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Think of this as a mostly secular Book of Proverbs, or, if you prefer, flash essays. They are advice for living generally given in short paragraphs. I read it years ago and it's past time for a re-read of this wonderful book.
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius. MobileRead: Kindle Project Gutenberg (various formats including mobi and ePub). |
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I nominate Pitching in a Pinch by Christy Mathewson.
This is considered one of the greatest baseball books ever written. Leopold Classic Library issued a new edition three months ago, calling it "a significant literary work." Because the book was written 100 years ago, it is in the public domain. Kindle - free http://www.amazon.com/Pitching-Baseb...dp/B004TPGQP0/ Kobo - free https://store.kobobooks.com/search?Q...ing+in+a+Pinch Nook - 99 cents http://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/Pitching-in-a-Pinch |
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I'll second "Pitching in a Pinch". I've had that on my TBR for a while. Thanks for the reminder.
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Second Meditations.
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What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe.
The "Look Inside" excerpt at Amazon sold me on this one. The author gave up a career in physics to become a full-time stick figure cartoonist. This is the book to read unless you're comfortable with remaining ignorant of the answers to such timeless questions as, "How fast would a human have to run in order to be cut in half at the belly button by a cheese-cutting wire?" This one looks just plain fun. The book, that is, not getting cut in half by a cheese cutting wire, which I don't recommend. Caveat: There are some ridiculous prices for this book, so if you buy I suggest you buy from Amazon.com or Google Play, where it's only $6.99. Barnes and Noble's price is $13.49, and Kobo wants an astounding $19.19 for it. Amazon Ca Amazon UK Amazon US Barnes and Noble Google Play Kobo US Quote:
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Third Meditations and Pitching in a Pinch
For those who are perhaps indulging in a Great War binge during its centenary, it's perhaps easy to overlook that this month marks as important a bicentenary, the conclusion of the Congress of Vienna in the summer of 1815. The ensuing treaty arguably set the stage for a century of more-or-less peace in Europe. I'd like to suggest Rites of Peace: The Fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna, by Adam Zamoyski. The blurb from Goodreads: Spoiler:
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I'll second Rites of Peace: The Fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna
I'd like to nominate The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki From Goodreads: In this fascinating book, "New Yorker "business columnist James Surowiecki explores a deceptively simple idea: Large groups of people are "smarter" than an elite few, no matter how brilliant-better at solving problems, fostering innovation, coming to wise decisions, even predicting the future. With boundless erudition and in delightfully clear prose, Surowiecki ranges across fields as diverse as popular culture, psychology, ant biology, behavioral economics, artificial intelligence, military history, and politics to show how this simple idea offers important lessons for how we live our lives, select our leaders, run our companies, and think about our world. |
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The Beer Wench's Guide to Beer: An Unpretentious Guide to Craft Beer
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Wit my third and final nomination I give the nod to This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women by Dan Gediman and Jay Allison with a forward by Studs Terke.
This remarkable collection features people who should probable never be in the same room together (much less the same book) describing what it is that makes them tick. The selections are from William F. Buckley, Penn Jillette, Bill Gates, Gloria Steinem, Helen Keller, Eleanor Roosevelt, John Updike, Newt Gingrich, and many, many more. Available at: • Amazon US (Whispersync ready). • Amazon Canada • Barnes & Noble • Kobo And can we get some love for "What If?" That book sounds like the closest thing to humor we've seen here in some time. ![]() Last edited by WT Sharpe; 06-23-2015 at 10:27 AM. |
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