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December 2015 Book Club Nominations
![]() The nominations will run through midnight EST November 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 December is: Short Stories 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 Enchanted Wanderer and Other Stories by Nicolai Leskov Amazon US / Kobo / Overdrive Spoiler:
(2) The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries edited by Otto Penzler Amazon US / Barnes & Noble / Kobo Spoiler:
(3) The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes: THE BOOK edited by Michael Amadio Goodreads | Amazon CA / Amazon UK / Amazon US Spoiler:
(4) Alice Munro's Best: Selected Stories by Alice Munro Amazon CA / Amazon UK / Amazon US / Kobo Spoiler:
(5) Close Range: Wyoming Stories by Annie Proulx Goodreads | Amazon Au / Amazon Ca / Amazon UK / Amazon US / Kobo Spoiler:
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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. Also, if you find one on the list that is no longer in operation, let me know and I'll remove it from the list.
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** The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake by Breece D'J Pancake [peterwardgd, BenG] Amazon UK / Kobo Spoiler:
** The Bazaar of Bad Dreams by Stephen King [WT Sharpe, peterwardgd] Goodreads | Amazon CA / Amazon UK / Amazon US / Kobo Spoiler:
** Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules edited by David Sedaris [BenG, sun surfer] Amazon UK / Amazon US / Kobo Spoiler:
* "Movement" by Nancy Fulda [BearMountainBooks] Kobo Spoiler:
* "A Starscape Slightly Askew" by Nancy Fulda [BearMountainBooks] Amazon US Spoiler:
*** The Enchanted Wanderer and Other Stories by Nicolai Leskov [issybird, WT Sharpe, bfisher] Amazon US / Kobo / Overdrive Spoiler:
* Rock Springs by Richard Ford [peterwardgd] Amazon US / Kobo Spoiler:
*** The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes: THE BOOK edited by Michael Amadio [WT Sharpe, CRussel, fantasyfan] Goodreads | Amazon CA / Amazon UK / Amazon US Spoiler:
*** The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries edited by Otto Penzler [GA Russell, bfisher, issybird] Amazon US / Barnes & Noble / Kobo Spoiler:
*** Alice Munro's Best: Selected Stories by Alice Munro [CRussel, GA Russell, sun surfer] Amazon CA / Amazon UK / Amazon US / Kobo Spoiler:
*** Close Range: Wyoming Stories by Annie Proulx [sun surfer, BenG, bfisher] Goodreads | Amazon Au / Amazon Ca / Amazon UK / Amazon US / Kobo Spoiler:
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My selection
First book i thought of when i saw this months title was The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake by (unsurprisingly) Breece D'J Pancake.
Taken from Amazon/Goodreads Breece D'J Pancake cut short a remarkably promising career when he took his own life in 1979 at the age of twenty-six. In 1983 the posthumous publication of this book - a collection of stories that depict, with astonishing power and grace, the world of Pancake's native rural West Virginia - electrified the literary world with a force that still resounds across two decades. "One is tempted to compare his debut to Hemingway's" - Joyce Carol Oates "An exceptional voice" - Margaret Atwood "The best, most sincere writer I've ever read" - Kurt Vonnegut This is a collection of stories that depict the world of Pancake's native rural West Virginia. I've already dipped into it myself and was pleasantly surprised by the quality of writing. Amazon Kobo |
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The Bazaar of Bad Dreams by Stephen King.
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I second The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake. I bought the book a couple of weeks ago but haven't had a chance to read it yet.
I also nominate Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules edited by David Sedaris. It's a collection of his favorite short stories. All the proceeds from this book go toward 826NYC, a nonprofit organization offering free writing workshops and after-school tutoring to students ages six to eighteen. The book's title references a painting by Adriaen van der Werff. Quote:
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Cool, i'll second The Bazaar of Bad Dreams. I am guilty of avoiding King's more recent books and i've never read any short story collections of his as far as i can remember.
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I'm kind of new at this nomination thing, but I'd like to nominate Nancy Fulda's "Movement." There are short stories she's written that I enjoyed more (I like her adventure stories and mysteries because that's what I generally like anyway!)
https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/eb...-a-short-story This story was nominated for the 2011 Hugo and Nebula awards. When her concerned parents investigate a treatment that could change her life forever, Hannah's world is thrown into turmoil. Unable to speak -- at least not in ways most people can understand -- Hannah struggles to face the question of who she really is, and who she wishes to become. If we are supposed to nominate one we haven't read yet, I'd pick her: http://www.amazon.com/Starscape-Slig...ds=nancy+fulda It totally looks like the type of fun read I'd enjoy. Kittyhawk Gruff never wanted to compete with her sisters. It's not her fault she's good at everything from alien artifacts to hyperspace mechanics. She'd far rather be ordinary than deal with her family's resentment. But when a trans-dimensional entity lures her sisters into an archaeological death trap, Kittyhawk knows she will have to stop pretending and live up to her own potential. |
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I'd like to nominate The Enchanted Wanderer and Other Stories, by Nicolai Leskov.
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Second The Enchanted Wanderer and Other Stories by Nicolai Leskov.
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I've read "Movement" and it's a good story. The only reason I don't feel compelled to give a nod to either of the Nancy Fulda stories is because they are not part of a collection. Of course, that doesn't mean they can't win; it's just that I feel a collection would make for a better discussion. That having been said, "Movement" does raise some interesting issues, and if a single short story could make for an interesting discussion, "Movement" could.
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I'll third The Enchanted Wanderer and Other Stories, by Nicolai Leskov.
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I'd like to nominate Rock Springs by Richard Ford as my third choice. Another short story collection i bought last year but still haven't got round to reading, sigh. I remember thinking at the time it would be a good introduction to his novels.
Taken from Kobo In these ten stories, Ford mines literary gold from the wind-scrubbed landscape of the American West - and from the guarded hopes and gnawing loneliness of the people who live there. A refugee from justice driving across Wyoming with his daughter; an unhappy girlfriend and a stolen Mercedes; a boy watching his family dissolve in a night of tragicomic violence; two men and a woman swapping hard-luck stories in a frontier bar as they try to sweeten their luck. Rock Springs is a masterpiece of taut narration, cleanly chiselled prose, and empathy so generous that it feels like a kind of grace. Kobo Amazon Last edited by peterwardgd; 11-20-2015 at 04:05 PM. |
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