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The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius |
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6 | 28.57% |
Pitching in a Pinch by Christy Mathewson |
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7 | 33.33% |
Rites of Peace: The Fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna by Adam Zamoyski |
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5 | 23.81% |
The Beer Wench's Guide to Beer: An Unpretentious Guide to Craft Beer by Ashley V. Routson |
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3 | 14.29% |
This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women by Dan Gediman and Jay Allison |
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3 | 14.29% |
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe |
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6 | 28.57% |
Waterloo by Bernard Cornwell |
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8 | 38.10% |
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 21. You may not vote on this poll |
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July 2016 Book Club Vote
![]() Help us choose a book as the July 2016 eBook for the MobileRead Book Club. The poll will be open for 5 days. There will be no runoff vote unless the voting results a tie, in which case there will be a 3 day run-off poll. This is a visible poll: others can see how you voted. It is ![]() We will start the discussion thread for this book on July 20th. Select from the following Official Choices with three nominations each: • The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius Patricia Clark Memorial Library: Kindle | Project Gutenberg: Various formats | Librivox (audiobook) Spoiler:
• Pitching in a Pinch by Christy Mathewson Amazon US / Barnes & Noble / Kobo Spoiler:
• Rites of Peace: The Fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna by Adam Zamoyski Amazon US / Kobo US Spoiler:
• The Beer Wench's Guide to Beer: An Unpretentious Guide to Craft Beer by Ashley V. Routson Amazon US Spoiler:
• 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:
• 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:
• Waterloo by Bernard Cornwell Amazon UK / Amazon US / Audible / Barnes & Noble / Overdrive Spoiler:
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Bumping this so more people vote. I'm pulling for the Rites of Peace over Waterloo. Not only am I more a causes-and-effects person than a battle person, Rites of Peace is far cheaper!
Nothing wrong with a good baseball story, though. |
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I've been wanting to read What If? for a while. It looks amusing and light for the summer. Although, I'm thinking a baseball story is a good option as well.
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And there are those of us in a more...meditative mood.
![]() As far as baseball goes, maybe this is sacrilegious but I find it about as interesting as watching paint dry. I have a friend who's into it and so sometimes I'm around while a game is on the television. About 90% of the time is spent waiting for the short spurts of game, and even then most gameplay consists of strikes and outs. Anyway, if baseball wins I'll have more time to get an early jumpstart on my other upcoming July-December reading challenges. |
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I'm with you on reading about baseball. I have virtually no interest in professional sports at all and reading about one of the dullest of the professional sports . . . If Pitching in a Pinch wins I'll be skipping reading the July selection.
I've read one of Cornwell's historical fiction books, it was set in Anglo-Saxon England at the time of King Alfred the Great. I did not care for it at all. Now I realize that in historical fiction the author takes a framework of actual history and on that hangs a tapestry of fiction that coincides with the author's intent. In the case of King Alfred's time the actual facts are so limited that of necessity a book becomes primarily fiction. I was just really put off though by how much made up sexual content and sexual attitudes, presumably to garner interest among modern readers, Cornwell put in the book I read, as well as misrepresenting the importance of Christianity in England at that time. On the other hand if Waterloo is selected I will probably read that if only to see how Cornwell does with a non-fiction history book, especially from a time where so much more is known about the people and events. |
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Fifty years ago when I was a boy, there was an old saying about sports books: "The smaller the ball, the better the literature."
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It looks like it all depends on the flurry of last minute votes we usually get. I'm still hoping for Bernard Cornwell's Waterloo. (And it's much more than just battles, issybird, though I agree completely about the price, which is why I am listening to it for now.) But I'd certainly give a good baseball story a try too.
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That July 2nd end date for the poll is somewhat misleading as the poll ends just two minutes into July 2nd. It's better to think of the thing as ending at midnight. There are only a few hours left to vote for the really good books (i.e., the ones I nominated.
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Oh well. My thanks to those who voted for Christy Mathewson!
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I guess this is where we meet our Waterloo.
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I'm next up for Waterloo at one of my OverDrive libraries, so I'll be getting it within the next two weeks, which should be sufficient to get it read in a timely fashion.
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