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View Poll Results: Which book from the Patricia Clark Memorial Library shall we read for October? | |||
The Night Life of the Gods by Thorne Smith |
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8 | 36.36% |
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson |
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11 | 50.00% |
Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain |
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7 | 31.82% |
The Virginian by Owen Wister |
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11 | 50.00% |
The Haunted House and Other Horror Stories by Charles Dickens |
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2 | 9.09% |
Lord of the World by Robert Hugh Benson |
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4 | 18.18% |
Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey |
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5 | 22.73% |
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell |
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5 | 22.73% |
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 22. You may not vote on this poll |
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October 2015 Book Club Vote
![]() Help us choose a book as the October 2015 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 October 20th. Select from the following Official Choices with three nominations each: • The Night Life of the Gods by Thorne Smith Patricia Clark Memorial Library: ePub | Kindle Spoiler:
• Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson Patricia Clark Memorial Library: ePub | Kindle Spoiler:
• Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain Patricia Clark Memorial Library: ePub | Kindle (Both versions are illustrated) Spoiler:
• The Virginian by Owen Wister Patricia Clark Memorial Library: ePub | Kindle Spoiler:
• The Haunted House and Other Horror Stories by Charles Dickens Patricia Clark Memorial Library: ePub | Kindle Spoiler:
• Lord of the World by Robert Hugh Benson Patricia Clark Memorial Library: ePub | Kindle Spoiler:
• Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey Patricia Clark Memorial Library: ePub | Kindle Spoiler:
• Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell Patricia Clark Memorial Library: ePub | Kindle Spoiler:
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Bah, humbug!
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Note that I have uploaded an ePub and a mobi version of Riders of the Purple Sage, and removed the link to the BBeB/LRF Books version, as I know of no one still using those formats. The link can still be found in this month's nominations thread.
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Thanks, Tom, for the upload.
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It was tough but I limited my vote to my three favourites. I didn't anticipate voting for a western, but I really enjoyed the preview for The Virginian.
Since it's not in its spoiler I'll note that Lord of the World is a religious-themed book written by a Catholic priest. It could be an interesting discussion. The complete The Haunted House is a loose anthology novella made up of chapters by various authors (coincidentally including, I just found out, Elizabeth Gaskell). Each chapter covers a haunting in a different room of the same house. It was Dickens' Christmas offering one year, the same as A Christmas Carol and The Cricket on the Hearth were in other years. The nomination download link is for two of Dickens' own chapters from the novella (the third mentioned in its spoiler is oddly not included) plus two separate short stories. If anyone is interested, I noticed that the full novella of The Haunted House is also available in the library; here's the epub. Last edited by sun surfer; 09-27-2015 at 05:35 AM. |
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This is an exceptionally strong list. I've only eliminated two so far; Zane Grey because it's already been discussed in a group read and Dickens because the club has done him twice.
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From Jo Walton's post on her Tor.com blog:
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So I voted for Pudd'nhead Wilson, no surprise since I nominated it and would like to see it win. I also decided to cast a vote for The Virginian even though fictional westerns do not generally appeal to me. Way back when (the early 1960s clear through the early 1970s) it inspired a television show that was a favorite of my mother and I figure that a show that ran that long the novel that it was based on must have something going for it. I do recall that one of the characters always dressed all in black, much like Adam from the western Bonanza. Whew, dressing all in black in the summer in Wyoming. Well TV westerns were never based on realism.
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I voted for the two westerns, and Cranford. Even though other areas of MobileRead have discussed Purple Sage, I've never read it, and certainly haven't been party to a discussion of it, so that's my first choice. Actually, I'll likely read it regardless. I've started Cranford a couple of times, but got distracted by new releases, so this would be a good excuse to finish it. And the Virginian because I actually _do_ want a good reason to read a western, though this one isn't exactly typical.
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Good grief. I wonder if the book club will come to the realization that they are voting for a book nominated by me. :P
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0-22 right now. I had one finish second in voting once.
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Pretty light voting so far. Only a couple of days left. Only 19 voters and we usually average 30. Plenty of time for some movement in a pretty close vote.
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I've been reading Cranford while waiting on the poll to close . If anyone is interested, there is a terrific audio version read by Prunella Scales (John Cleese's wife Sybil in Fawlty Towers)
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