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We, The Drowned by Carsten Jensen |
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3 | 20.00% |
The Train by Georges Simenon |
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5 | 33.33% |
Skylark by Deszö Kosztolányi |
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4 | 26.67% |
How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone by Saša Stanišić |
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1 | 6.67% |
Inspector Imanishi Investigates by Seicho Matsumoto |
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6 | 40.00% |
Memoirs of Hadrian by Margeurite Yourcenar |
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3 | 20.00% |
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami |
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8 | 53.33% |
Resurrection by Wolf Haas |
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3 | 20.00% |
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 15. You may not vote on this poll |
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Bah, humbug!
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November 2015 Book Club Vote
![]() Help us choose a book as the November 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 November 20th. Select from the following Official Choices with three nominations each: • We, The Drowned by Carsten Jensen Amazon UK / Amazon US / Kobo Spoiler:
• The Train by Georges Simenon Amazon US / Kobo/ OverDrive Spoiler:
• Skylark by Deszö Kosztolányi Amazon US / Kobo / OverDrive Spoiler:
• How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone by Saša Stanišić Goodreads Spoiler:
• Inspector Imanishi Investigates by Seicho Matsumoto Amazon US / Kobo Spoiler:
• Memoirs of Hadrian by Margeurite Yourcenar Goodreads Spoiler:
• Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami Goodreads Spoiler:
• Resurrection by Wolf Haas Goodreads Spoiler:
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Choices, choices, choices. I'm going to let this one sit for a couple of days. There's a couple I'm not sure about yet.
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Only two of these titles are available at my library so I am going to put a couple more requests in and wait a bit to see if I can get any others.
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^Are you talking as eBook or as any format? My library is only missing The Train which is actually one of the ones I am deciding if I am going to vote for.
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I did go and check paper availability to see how that helps and it only added 2 options for me. We, The Drowned - Electronic and Paper available The Train - Not available Skylark - Not available How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone - Not available Inspector Imanishi Investigates - Paper only Memoirs of Hadrian - Paper only Kafka on the Shore - Electronic and Paper available Resurrection - Not available |
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My library failed miserably for electronic availability:
We, the Drowned - paper The Train - not available Skylark - paper How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone - paper Inspector Imanishi Investigates - paper Memoirs of Hadrian - paper Kafka on the Shore - electronic and paper Resurrection - paper Only one electronic offering, but overall good availability with only one not in the system. I trust my library to be able to get me the one not in the system as well. |
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o saeclum infacetum
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I know Murakami is both highly regarded and hugely popular, but I was underwhelmed by his weirdly Western After the Quake when it was a choice in the other club. I'm hoping for pretty much anything else.
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*Goodreads says 430-700+ pages depending on version. |
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o saeclum infacetum
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ETA: Simenon's only 144 pages, folks! Last edited by issybird; 10-27-2015 at 09:11 PM. |
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I'd like to see Skylark make it. I'd like to read more works from Russia.
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Bah, humbug!
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I'd like to see one of the mysteries win.
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I'm holding back for a couple of days while I check on availability and cost, as well as length. But I definitely would prefer one of the mysteries to win.
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I'm definitely not liking the current leader. I truly have zero desire to read it. So I've gone ahead and voted for The Train, and Inspector Imanishi. I can see reading either one, and even enjoying it. But no matter how worthy, I'm not interested in anything Kafka.
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