11:35 AM by sun surfer in Reading Recommendations | Book Clubs

'Anne Enright is a dazzling writer of international stature and one of Ireland’s most singular voices. Now she delivers The Gathering, a moving, evocative portrait of a large Irish family and a shot of fresh blood into the Irish literary tradition, combining the lyricism of the old with the shock of the new.

The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan are gathering in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother, Liam, drowned in the sea. His sister, Veronica, collects the body and keeps the dead man company, guarding the secret she shares with him—something that happened in their grandmother’s house in the winter of 1968. As Enright traces the line of betrayal and redemption through three generations her distinctive intelligence twists the world a fraction and gives it back to us in a new and unforgettable light. The Gathering is a daring, witty, and insightful family epic, clarified through Anne Enright’s unblinking eye. It is a novel about love and disappointment, about how memories warp and secrets fester, and how fate is written in the body, not in the stars.'

The Gathering is the winner of the 2007 Man Booker Prize and was chosen unanimously by the jury.

This is the MR Literary Club selection for October 2017. Whether you've already read it or would like to, feel free to start or join in the conversation at any time, and guests are always welcome! So, what are your thoughts on it?

06:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review

Ok kids, time for the weekly roundup of what we've covered this week:

E-Book General - Reading Recommendations

• Bookworm_Girl Vote • October 2017

09:01 PM by sun surfer in Reading Recommendations | Book Clubs

Help us select what the MR Literary Club will read in October 2017!

The options this month are courtesy of our rotating nominator, Bookworm_Girl.

Voting will run for four days. The vote will close exactly four days from this ; even if the final tally doesn't occur immediately after voting closes, no votes made after that time will count.

Votes will be made by post. Each person has SEVEN votes to use.

You may give each nominee one or two (or no) votes. You may vote all at once in one or vote in separate at different times, so long as you have more votes remaining to cast. You may use any number of your possible votes up to the maximum. Any extraneous votes per person (past their maximum or more than two for one nominee) won't count. Votes cannot be changed once they are cast.

The rotating nominator may not vote. Once voting is complete, the count will be tallied and a winner declared. In the event of a tie, there will be a one-day run-off vote, also in this thread. If the run-off also ends in a tie, then the tie will be resolved by the nominator.

We hope that you will read the selection with the club and join in the discussion.

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Initial voting is closed. Run-off voting is closed. Final results-

• Days Without End by Sebastian Barry
  Post / Goodreads / 259 Pages / Votes- 4 / Run-off- 1

• The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
  Post / Goodreads / 386 Pages / Votes- 3

• Arthur & George by Julian Barnes
  Post / Goodreads / 445 Pages / Votes- 4 / Run-off- 1

• The Last Painting of Sara de Vos by Dominic Smith
  Post / Goodreads / 374 Pages / Votes- 0

• The Gustav Sonata by Rose Tremain
  Post / Goodreads / 241 Pages / Votes- 0

• The Gathering by Anne Enright
  Post / Goodreads / 261 Pages / Votes- 4 / Run-off- 2

• Transatlantic by Colum McCann
  Post / Goodreads / 304 Pages / Votes- 2

• Golden Hill by Francis Spufford
  Post / Goodreads / 344 Pages / Votes- 3

06:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review

It's time again for our roundup on all the stuff we posted on our frontpage this past week.

E-Book General - Reading Recommendations

• October 2017 Book Club Nominations

12:49 AM by WT Sharpe in Reading Recommendations | Book Clubs

MobileRead Book Club
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

(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

(3) Post Office: A Novel by Charles Bukowski
Goodreads | Amazon US
Print Length: 162 pages

(4) Bucky F&%@ing Dent by David Duchovny
Goodreads
Print Length: 306 pages

(5) The Worst Class Trip Ever (Class Trip, Book 1) by Dave Barry
Goodreads | Amazon US / Amazon US (audiobook) / Audible
Print Length: pages

(6) The Milagro Beanfield War by John Nichols
Goodreads
Print Length: 623 pages

(7) Breakup (Kate Shugak #7) by Dana Stabenow
Goodreads | Amazon UK / Amazon US / Audible UK / Audible US / Kobo UK
Print Length: 260 pages

06:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review

If you've been a bit too busy to keep up, here are a few of our favorite stories from the past week.

E-Book General - Reading Recommendations

• The Return by Hisham Matar

11:12 AM by sun surfer in Reading Recommendations | Book Clubs

'From Man Booker Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Hisham Matar, a memoir of his journey home to his native Libya in search of answers to his father's disappearance. In 2012, after the overthrow of Qaddafi, the acclaimed novelist Hisham Matar journeys to his native Libya after an absence of thirty years.

When he was twelve, Matar and his family went into political exile. Eight years later Matar's father, a former diplomat and military man turned brave political dissident, was kidnapped from the streets of Cairo by the Libyan government and is believed to have been held in the regime's most notorious prison. Now, the prisons are empty and little hope remains that Jaballa Matar will be found alive. Yet, as the author writes, hope is "persistent and cunning".

This book is a profoundly moving family memoir, a brilliant and affecting portrait of a country and a people on the cusp of immense change, and a disturbing and timeless depiction of the monstrous nature of absolute power.'

The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between is the winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.

This is the MR Literary Club selection for September 2017. Whether you've already read it or would like to, feel free to start or join in the conversation at any time, and guests are always welcome! So, what are your thoughts on it?

06:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review

If you missed our frontpage news at any point this week, here is the best way to catch up:

E-Book General - Reading Recommendations

• September 2017 Book Club Nominations

Miscellaneous - Announcements

• Scheduled Server Migration Aug 23 (Wednesday) @ 4:00am EDT
• MobileRead Server Migration completed