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October 2017 Book Club Nominations
![]() October 2017 Nominations Help us select the next book that the MobileRead Book Club will read for October, 2017. The nominations will run through midnight EDT September 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 October is: Humor 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) England, Their England by A.G. Macdonell Goodreads | Faded Page | Patricia Clark Memorial Library: ePub / Kindle Print Length: 114 pages Spoiler:
(2) Alice, Let's Eat: Further Adventures of a Happy Eater (The Tummy Trilogy #2) by Calvin Trillin Goodreads | Amazon Ca / Amazon US / Overdrive Print Length: 192 pages Spoiler:
(3) Post Office: A Novel by Charles Bukowski Goodreads | Amazon US Print Length: 162 pages Spoiler:
(4) Bucky F&%@ing Dent by David Duchovny Goodreads Print Length: 306 pages Spoiler:
(5) The Worst Class Trip Ever (Class Trip, Book 1) by Dave Barry Goodreads | Amazon US / Amazon US (audiobook) / Audible Print Length: pages Spoiler:
(6) The Milagro Beanfield War by John Nichols Goodreads Print Length: 623 pages Spoiler:
(7) Breakup (Kate Shugak #7) by Dana Stabenow Goodreads | Amazon UK / Amazon US / Audible UK / Audible US / Kobo UK Print Length: 260 pages Spoiler:
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October 2017 Book Club Nominations
* Welcome to the World, Baby Girl! (Elmwood Springs #1) by Fannie Flagg [JSWolf]
Goodreads | Overdrive Print Length: 480 pages Spoiler:
*** Alice, Let's Eat: Further Adventures of a Happy Eater (The Tummy Trilogy #2) by Calvin Trillin [CRussel, issybird, Dazrin] Goodreads | Amazon Ca / Amazon US / Overdrive Print Length: 192 pages Spoiler:
*** Breakup (Kate Shugak #7) by Dana Stabenow [CRussel, Luffy, GA Russell] Goodreads | Amazon UK / Amazon US / Audible UK / Audible US / Kobo UK Print Length: 260 pages Spoiler:
*** The Milagro Beanfield War by John Nichols [BenG, John F, GA Russell] Goodreads Print Length: 623 pages Spoiler:
*** Post Office: A Novel by Charles Bukowski [obs20, JSWolf, issybird] Goodreads | Amazon US Print Length: 162 pages Spoiler:
*** England, Their England by A.G. Macdonell [issybird, JSWolf, CRussel] Goodreads | Faded Page | Patricia Clark Memorial Library: ePub / Kindle Print Length: 114 pages Spoiler:
*** The Worst Class Trip Ever (Class Trip, Book 1) by Dave Barry [WT Sharpe, Dazrin, GA Russell] Goodreads | Amazon US / Amazon US (audiobook) / Audible Print Length: pages Spoiler:
*** Bucky F&%@ing Dent by David Duchovny [WT Sharpe, John F, drofgnal] Goodreads Print Length: 306 pages Spoiler:
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Other than the obvious 2013 issue, are we increasing the nomination period from 7 days to 10 days?
Just want to check so I can update the selections list notes if this is intentional. Seems long to me but I haven't been able to pay a lot of attention recently and there may be something I am not aware of. The October 2017 selection will complete 9 full years of the MR Book Club. The first selection was A Passage to India in November 2008. Last edited by Dazrin; 09-20-2017 at 01:17 AM. |
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Since this is the October 2013 book, we don't need to nominate/vote as we've already done this.
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I'll nominate Welcome to the World, Baby Girl! by Fanny Flagg.
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I'd like to nominate Alice, Let's Eat by Calvin Trillin.
We ALL eat! And we all like to laugh out loud. With Alice, Let's Eat, we can do both. Originally published in 1996 1978, my DW and I read passages of this back and forth to each other as we both read it and often fought over who got to the book first (the problem of pBooks!) This is a collection of essays from The New Yorker that cover his attempts to find the best examples of local foods. Quote: In this delightful and delicious book, Calvin Trillin, guided by an insatiable appetite, embarks on a hilarious odyssey in search of “something decent to eat.” Across time zones and cultures, and often with his wife, Alice, at his side, Trillin shares his triumphs in the art of culinary discovery, including Dungeness crabs in California, barbecued mutton in Kentucky, potato latkes in London, blaff d’oursins in Martinique, and a $33 picnic on a no-frills flight to Miami. His eating companions include Fats Goldberg, the New York pizza baron and reformed blimp; William Edgett Smith, the man with the Naughahyde palate; and his six-year-old daughter, Sarah, who refuses to enter a Chinese restaurant unless she is carrying a bagel (“just in case”). And though Alice “has a weird predilection for limiting our family to three meals a day,” on the road she proves to be a serious eater–despite “seemingly uncontrollable attacks of moderation.” Overdrive Amazon US Amazon CA Goodreads A bit pricey, but it IS on Overdrive, and it's a nice length (192 pages). Oh, and did I mention? This is really funny! Last edited by CRussel; 09-24-2017 at 06:39 PM. |
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Breakup
Next nomination, Breakup by Dana Stabenow. This book is another Kate Shugak mystery, but far and away the funniest one in the series. It's situational humour, mostly, but as always well and wittily written. If you ask Ms. Stabenow's readers to vote for their favourite book in the series, this would likely win handily.
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Alice, Let's Eat is book 2. We've not read book 1. Nominate American Fried instead and I'll second it.
Breakup is book 7. We've not read books 2-6. A Fatal Thaw is not humorous (but it is a good book) and I would not second it. Last edited by JSWolf; 09-20-2017 at 02:42 PM. |
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I want to nominate The Milagro Beanfield War by John Nichols. I bought it when I saw Amazon had a kindle edition even though I already have both the paperback and hardcover. I must have read it a half dozen times in the 80s and 90s.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...-beanfield-war Robert Redford directed a movie version back in 1988. Spoiler:
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