06-19-2017, 10:23 PM | #1 |
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July 2017 Book Club Nominations
Help us select the book that the MobileRead Book Club will read for July, 2017.
The nominations will run through midnight EST April 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 July is: Free-For-All. 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 Wind Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin (Translator) Goodreads | Amazon US / Overdrive / WorldCat Print Length: 607 pages Spoiler:
(2) Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach Goodreads | Overdrive Print Length: 321 pages Spoiler:
(3) Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly Goodreads | Amazon UK / Amazon US / Audible UK / Audible US / Kobo US Print Length: 373 pages Spoiler:
(4) Animal: The Autobiography of a Female Body by Sara Pascoe Goodreads Print Length: 336 pages Spoiler:
(5) Socrates Cafe: A Fresh Taste of Philosophy by Christopher Phillips Goodreads Print Length: 246 pages Spoiler:
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06-19-2017, 10:24 PM | #2 |
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Nominations ("*" indicates one vote):
*** The Wind Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin (Translator) [jeromuhi, bfisher, CRussel] Goodreads | Amazon US / Overdrive / WorldCat Print Length: 607 pages Spoiler:
*** Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly [CRussel, issybird, bfisher] Goodreads | Amazon UK / Amazon US / Audible UK / Audible US / Kobo US Print Length: 373 pages Spoiler:
*** Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach [JSWolf, WT Sharpe, issybird] Goodreads | Overdrive Print Length: 321 pages Spoiler:
* The Gunslinger by Stephen King [Dazrin] Goodreads Print Length: 336 pages Spoiler:
*** Socrates Cafe: A Fresh Taste of Philosophy by Christopher Phillips [WT Sharpe, issybird, Dazrin] Goodreads Print Length: 246 pages Spoiler:
*** Animal: The Autobiography of a Female Body by Sara Pascoe [WT Sharpe, bfisher, Dazrin] Goodreads Print Length: 336 pages Spoiler:
* Moon Over Soho by Ben Aaronovitch [JSWolf] Goodreads | Overdrive Print Length: pages Spoiler:
* Animal Farm by George Orwell [crich70] Goodreads | Amazon US Print Length: 154 pages Spoiler:
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06-20-2017, 10:03 AM | #3 |
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The Wind Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
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06-20-2017, 11:34 AM | #4 |
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Hi, jeromuhi. Welcome to the MobileRead Book Club. It would be good to get a bit more information about the book you're nominating. A brief description, and link to at least GoodReads would be the basic minimum, though links to Amazon, Kobo, Audible and/or Overdrive are all useful additions. This makes it easier on Tom who manages the voting, and on the rest of us who have to decide what we want to read and vote for.
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06-20-2017, 06:02 PM | #6 |
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Free-for-all is hard. I do better when I've got a topic to focus my thoughts.
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06-21-2017, 12:28 PM | #7 |
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Free for All IS hard. But empowering, too. I was going to go with two very different, non-fiction, books for my recommendations, but it turns out that the first of them, Gorillas in the Mist, by Farley Mowat, a great Canadian writer, is not currently available in the US in an eBook edition, so I'll pass for now.
The second, however, is a wonderful best seller (something I would usually avoid.) I've seen the movie, but now I want to read the book: Hidden Figures, by Margot Lee Shetterly. Amazon (and Goodreads) description: Spoiler:
GoodReads (same description as the Amazon one above) Amazon: $10.99 Audible: $12.97 WhisperSync, or 1 credit. Kobo US: $10.99 Amazon UK: £5.74 Audible UK: £2.99 WhisperSync (That UK price, especially with WhisperSync, is a really good deal!) Overdrive: Both audio and eBook versions available. The book is 373 pages long, or nearly 11 hours of Audible book. It has gotten rave reviews, and especially by those who have seen the movie and find the book even more compelling. We don't have a "Non-Fiction" category this year, so here's our chance to rectify that. |
06-21-2017, 01:47 PM | #8 |
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Well, we don't have a general non-fiction category but given the subject of this book it would have worked in either of our two specific non-fiction categories: Science and History.
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06-21-2017, 02:30 PM | #9 |
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I suppose a bit of both. IAC, a book I definitely want to read, so let's give it some seconds and we can read it next month.
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06-21-2017, 08:19 PM | #10 |
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I second The Wind Up Bird Chronicle
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I'm nominating Gulp by Mary Roach.
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The Wind Up Bird Chronicle
Japan's most highly regarded novelist now vaults into the first ranks of international fiction writers with this heroically imaginative novel, which is at once a detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage, and an excavation of the buried secrets of World War II.
In a Tokyo suburb a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wife's missing cat. Soon he finds himself looking for his wife as well in a netherworld that lies beneath the placid surface of Tokyo. As these searches intersect, Okada encounters a bizarre group of allies and antagonists: a psychic prostitute; a malevolent yet mediagenic politician; a cheerfully morbid sixteen-year-old-girl; and an aging war veteran who has been permanently changed by the hideous things he witnessed during Japan's forgotten campaign in Manchuria. Gripping, prophetic, suffused with comedy and menace, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is a tour de force equal in scope to the masterpieces of Mishima and Pynchon. Three books in one volume: The Thieving Magpie, Bird as Prophet, The Birdcatcher. This translation by Jay Rubin is in collaboration with the author. (less) Good Reads Amazon WorldCat Overdrive Last edited by jeromuhi; 06-22-2017 at 10:36 AM. Reason: Updated with Overdrive Link |
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