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Nominations for February 2018 • A Rainbow of Reading
Happy New Year and Happy New Leaf Book Club! Help us select the first book that the New Leaf Book Club will read, for February 2018. The theme is A Rainbow of Reading: books with color-full associations. The nominations will run through 6 AM EST January 8, 2018. Each nomination requires a second and a third to make it to the poll, which will remain open for five days. The discussion of the selection will start on February 15, 2018. Don't forget to show up for the discussion of the final selection of the MR Club, Whose Body?, on January 15. FAQs for the Nomination, Selection and Discussion process General Guidelines for the New Leaf Book Club Official choices with three nominations each: Nothing But Blue Skies by Tom Holt Kindle | Kobo | OverDrive Spoiler:
Fadeout by Joseph Hansen Length: 202 pages. AmazonUS: $7.99 | AmazonUK: £3.99 | KoboUK: £3.99 Spoiler:
The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith Kindle: $0.99 | Kobo Spoiler:
Passing by Nella Larsen Kindle | Kobo Spoiler:
Rainbows End: A Novel with One Foot in the Future by Vernor Vinge Overdrive | Kobo US | Kobo UK | Amazon US |Amazon UK Spoiler:
The Amber Fury by Natalie Haynes Amazon UK | Amazon US |Kobo UK | Kobo US | Overdrive (under the alternate title "The Furies") Spoiler:
The Color Purple by Alice Walker Amazon | Kobo Spoiler:
The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen Kindle | Kobo | OverDrive Spoiler:
The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton PCML: ePub Spoiler:
The Crimson Chalice by Victor Canning Amazon US | Kobo Spoiler:
Green Island by Shawna Yang Ryan Kindle | Kobo: $4.99 | OverDrive Spoiler:
Colours (Earth Incorporated #1) by Adrian J. Walker Kindle: $0.99 | Kobo: $0.99 | Amazon UK: £0.99 Spoiler:
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Nominations for February 2018
Nominations:
***The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith [astrangerhere, CRussel, Bookpossum] Kindle: $0.99 | Kobo Spoiler:
***Fadeout by Joseph Hansen [CRussel, astrangerhere, Dazrin] Length: 202 pages. AmazonUS: $7.99 | AmazonUK: £3.99 | KoboUK: £3.99 Spoiler:
***Green Island by Shawna Yang Ryan[Bookworm_Girl, BelleZora, Dazrin] Kindle | Kobo: $4.99 | OverDrive Spoiler:
***Rainbows End: A Novel with One Foot in the Future by Vernor Vinge [JSWolf, June, gmw] Overdrive | Kobo US | Kobo UK | Amazon US |Amazon UK Spoiler:
***The Amber Fury by Natalie Haynes [latepaul, gmw, Bookworm_Girl] Amazon UK | Amazon US |Kobo UK | Kobo US | Overdrive (under the alternate title "The Furies") Spoiler:
***Passing by Nella Larsen [Bookpossum, bfisher, BelleZora] Kindle | Kobo Spoiler:
***The Color Purple by Alice Walker [WT Sharpe, BelleZora, bfisher] Amazon | Kobo Spoiler:
***Nothing But Blue Skies by Tom Holt [issybird, latepaul, bfisher] Kindle | Kobo | OverDrive Spoiler:
***Colours (Earth Incorporated #1) by Adrian J. Walker [June, alohamora, issybird] Kindle: $0.99 | Kobo: $0.99 | Amazon UK: £0.99 Spoiler:
***The Crimson Chalice by Victor Canning [gmw, latepaul, Dazrin] Amazon US | Kobo Spoiler:
***The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen [issybird, Bookpossum, Bookworm_Girl] Kindle | Kobo | OverDrive Spoiler:
***The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton [JSWolf, alohamora, astrangerhere] PCML: ePub Spoiler:
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I'll start it off with my nomination - stretching our Rainbow theme right off the bat. I using the LGBT connotations of the Rainbow to nominate Patricia Highsmith's novel The Price of Salt.
The novel is currently available on Kindle for $.99 USD (though I do not vouch for the other pulp novel that is packaged with it). From the description: Quote:
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Well, since astrangerhere is already using the LGBTQA meaning of rainbow, I think I'll do the same. My nomination is for the first of the Dave Brandstetter mysteries from Joseph Hansen: Fadeout.
This is an absolute classic, possibly the first modern crossover. I first read it back in the 70's, and as I'm re-reading it now, I'm pleased to find it's held up well. From Goodreads: Quote:
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And, while I'm at it, I'll use the second of my tickets to second The Price of Salt, which June has correctly identified as Carol a Virago Modern Classic at the AmazonUK store. Price there is £4.99, so if you can manage to buy it from the AmazonUS store, it's a good deal better bargain! I've never read this book, it sounds interesting, it's inexpensive, it's short, and it's a classic. Seems worth a nod.
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I nominate Green Island by Shawna Yang Ryan. Available at both Amazon and Kobo for $4.99 USD. Also available to borrow through Overdrive.
It was the Amazon Best Book of February 2016, a 2016 Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Historical Fiction and winner of the American Book Award in 2017. From Goodreads: Quote:
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@issybird: Post#1, when it appears on the MR home page, renders poorly. There is evilness in the top image. The flaws varies with browser:
Safari/MacOSX10.12.6, Internet Explorer/Win10, Edge/Win10:: The image it too wide to fit the fixed width home page structure resulting in an overly wide display that clips a portion of the image and the ends of each line of text as the text flows to match the image width. Firefox57/MacOSX10.12.6, Chrome(current)/MacOSX10.12.6: The image fails to display letting the rest of the post flow to the proper width. When I inspect the code, this post's image is generated from a PHP script while the images in the other homepage posts are simple JPEGs. |
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That's because the logo needs to not be centered and moved to the left.
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I'll nominate Rainbows End: A Novel with One Foot in the Future by Vernor Vinge.
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Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/rainbows-end Kobo UK: https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/rainbow-s-end-22 Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/Rainbows-End-.../dp/B004M8SR2O Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rainbows-En.../dp/B006L7RAPO |
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I'd like to nominate The Amber Fury by Natalie Haynes.
Description from Goodreads: Quote:
Amazon US Kobo UK Kobo US Overdrive* (*under the alternate title "The Furies") |
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I have a nomination that covers a different aspect of our theme:
Passing by Nella Larsen. Quote:
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