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March 2017 Book Club Nominations
![]() The nominations will run through midnight EST February 26 or until 10 books have made the list. The poll will then be posted and will remain open for five days. The book selection category for March is: Patricia Clarke Memorial Library. 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. [I'm helping out while Tom is unavailable. Let me know if anything's wrong. Please be gentle!] Official choices with three nominations each: (1)Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow Spoiler:
(2)Lardner on the Loose (collected short fiction) by Ring Lardner Kindle epub Spoiler:
(3)A to Izzard (collected short fiction) by Damon Runyon Kindle epub Spoiler:
(4)The Red Cockade by Stanley J. Weyman epub Kindle Spoiler:
(5)Humbugs of the World by PT Barnum Spoiler:
(6)Queen Lucia by E.F. Benson Spoiler:
Kindle(7)Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell Spoiler:
Kindle(8)The Man of Property by John Galsworthy Spoiler:
Kindle AudibleNominations: ***A to Izzard (collected short fiction) by Damon Runyon [issybird, GA Russell, CRussel] Kindle epub Spoiler:
***Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow [JSWolf, Alohamora, WT Sharpe] Spoiler:
***The Red Cockade by Stanley J. Weyman [issybird, bfisher, Dazrin] epub Kindle Spoiler:
***Lardner on the Loose (collected short fiction) by Ring Lardner [GA Russell, issybird, CRussel] Kindle epub Spoiler:
*The Art of Money Getting by PT Barnum [obs20] Spoiler:
***Humbugs of the World by PT Barnum [obs20, WT Sharpe, Dazrin] Spoiler:
**King of the Khyber Rifles by Talbot Mundy [GA Russell, BenG] Spoiler:
Kindle epub***Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell [BenG, bfisher, sun surfer] Spoiler:
Kindle***Queen Lucia by E.F. Benson [BenG, bfisher, JSWolf] Spoiler:
Kindle***The Man of Property by John Galsworthy [CRussel, Dazrin, sun surfer] Spoiler:
Kindle Audible**The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells [JSWolf, WT Sharpe] Spoiler:
The nominations are now closed. Last edited by WT Sharpe; 02-27-2017 at 12:07 AM. Reason: Updated through post #57. |
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Thanks for jumping in, issybird. A question for the group -- are we limiting this to only books in the PCML, or would any public domain book be acceptable assuming it would be eligible for the PCML? (I don't have a particular book in mind, just asking at this point. But I know some books would qualify that I don't have time or energy to go through and edit pursuant to uploading them here.
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So all of that said, I personally see no reason not to go by our usual practice of letting people nominate what they will on the assumption that it will shake out in the nominating/voting process. But if Tom sees this and wants to issue a ruling, that would be good, too! *Some books in the PCML may not be in the US public domain. |
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I would go for just what's posted to the PCML. I'll have to have a look to see what to nominate.
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I don't have an idea yet. It would be no problem for me (look away, Jon!) to nominate a classic, but I don't think there'd be much interest. In any case, I'd like to see nominations more along the "corking great read" line, books like, say, Captain Blood, which I won't nominate because I read it too recently. Popular fiction that just happens to be old, but is still funny or adventurous or romantic or what have you? And now that I've said that, I do have an idea which I'll post in a bit. |
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Well at least tell us what the book is, issy! After all, for those of us who live in life+50 countries, we might be able to get it and enjoy a good read. Even if it isn't part of this month's nominations!
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Ah, thanks. I missed that. Thanks. I was thinking that it was a different book you were going to nominate, since Captain Blood was one you'd read too recently. Just me not following along clearly.
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OK, I'll get things rolling with A to Izzard (collected short fiction), by Damon Runyon. It only hit the PCML last month when he came into PD in life + 70 countries, uploaded by the wonderful GrannyGrump (check out her other stuff; all winners).
Kindle epub From Wikipedia's bio of Runyon: Quote:
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I'll nominate Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow.
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Are books removed going to be put back when they are allowed to be here or do we have to post them again?
An example is HG Wells who died 70 years ago and yet his books have not yet put back. Last edited by JSWolf; 02-20-2017 at 12:13 PM. |
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Harry's the librarian, so you may want to ask him. I do know that everything that was taken offline was duly recorded in a separate file to make it easier to restore when the time came.
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If I was home is check into that, but some things are rather difficult to to on the phone. Issybird's filling in for me because I inadvertently left my iPad and Kindle home. Go figure. I remembered my Amazon Tap, iPod, and the shoulder bag that houses my Kindle and iPad when I'm on the road, and forgot the main things.
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