About 12 hours left to nominate. This is the list of nominee's: The Alchemist-Paul Coelho

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time- Mark Hadden

Nightengale Floor - Lian Heavn

Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World - Vicki Myron

Waiting For The Barbarians - J.M. Coetzee

The Glass Castle A Memoir by Jeannette Walls

Half of a Yellow Sun

Shogun - James Clavell

The Hours

kicked out

House of Leaves - Mark Danielewski

The soloist - Steve Lopez

The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B.

I agree with KrisT. :)

I've read Mark Haddon's book already.

I would say the list looks plenty long. I will wait and just vote.:)

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

I am so sorry everyone. i don't know what my deal is, but i've missed a lot of nominations so far. This is what the nominations are (please let me know if I missed anything):

The Alchemist-Paul Coelho

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time- Mark Hadden

Nightengale Floor - Lian Heavn

Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World - Vicki Myron

Waiting For The Barbarians - J.M. Coetzee

The Glass Castle A Memoir by Jeannette Walls

Half of a Yellow Sun

Shogun - James Clavell

The Hours

kicked out

House of Leaves - Mark Danielewski

The soloist - Steve Lopez

The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B.

Well you missed my nomination too but looking at that list it is already way too long so I will save my nomination for another month!!! (and I have no emoticons to add :(

So far the nominations are:

The Alchemist-Paul Coelho

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time- Mark Hadden

Nightengale Floor - Lian Heavn

Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World - Vicki Myron

Waiting For The Barbarians - J.M. Coetzee

The Glass Castle A Memoir by Jeannette Walls

Half of a Yellow Sun

Shogun

The Hours

kicked out

House of Leaves

The soloist

Can you include Kicked Out in that list too please? See my above post - you wouldnt be sorry, its a fantastic book...

Emilee wrote: "Sorry I did see it but missed typing it. New list

So far the nominations are:

The Alchemist-Paul Coelho

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time- Mark Hadden

Nightengale Flo..."

I nominate the House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski. it is an amazing book that really turns the reading experience on its ear (sometimes literally!)

Thanks Kandice!!!! :)

Thank you Emilee! You're the Bomb!!!

The Soloist by Steve Lopez

Sorry I did see it but missed typing it. New list

So far the nominations are:

The Alchemist-Paul Coelho

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time- Mark Hadden

Nightengale Floor - Lian Heavn

Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World - Vicki Myron

Waiting For The Barbarians - J.M. Coetzee

The Glass Castle A Memoir by Jeannette Walls

Half of a Yellow Sun

Shogun

The Hours

Emilee, I nominated The Hours, doesn't it count?

So far the nominations are:

The Alchemist-Paul Coelho

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time- Mark Hadden

Nightengale Floor - Lian Heavn

Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World - Vicki Myron

Waiting For The Barbarians - J.M. Coetzee

The Glass Castle A Memoir by Jeannette Walls

Half of a Yellow Sun

Shogun

Richard, you used an emoticon! 8-0. and an original one at that. You are a nice old codger.

oooo I like the seatbelt too :)

Richard, I really like the seatbelt! Thanks:)

(you can't be that old!!!)

And no I do not know that above elongated smilie, I got that off Wiki.

Richard, emoticons are good to just show when you're smiling, sad or being non-serious. Seeing as body language is such a huge part of communicating usually you miss that in online discussions.

(x(x_(X_x(O_o)x_x)_X)x) - living amongst zombies.

I nominated Shogun because I've already read it yes and because I'll be continuing with the series! I haven't been participating with many group reads lately so not really nomming things I want to read but things I'd love to share.

I'd like to second The Curious Incident... and The Glass Castle.

Richard wrote: "Fiona-are you voting for Shogun because you are already reading it?? and allison i just got small dictionary of those awful emoticons and i now know you are sticking your tongue out and that Kandic..."

It's just a way to get the feeling behind our words across, since we can't hear or see each other;) (that's a wink)

Fiona nominated Shogun because she loved it and wants everyone to read it and enjoy it as well!

I am going to nominate The Hours since I already promised to read it and that would be 2 birds with one stone! :)

well then I nominate Across the Nightingale Floor :P

I want to change my vote to Shogun Emilee.

I've just finished "Kicked Out" by Richard W Hardwick and it was the best book I've read in years, even better than Curious Incident, Gods Own Country etc. Its about 16 year old Danny who gets kicked out his home and ends up in a hostel for young people. Hilarious and heartbreaking, I'm recommending it to anyone who'll listen and would like others to love it as much as I did...

I have the book, Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World. I was planning on reading it in May, so I will be voting for that one. Since I'm a librarian and have a cat that looks like Dewey, I was really drawn to the book!
I liked The Curious Incident... and The Glass Castle. Of the 2, The Glass Castle is one of my favorites!

Shannon wrote: "How about The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B.- qu..."

oooo I just got this trilogy and I'm excited to read it!

Christina Stind wrote: "Half of a Yellow Sun

I've already read The Curious incident... and it's a gre..."

Have this on my TBR pile as well.

Sharon wrote: "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time -Mark ..."

Have this on my TBR pile.

Emilee wrote: "my nomination is:

The Alchemist by Paul Coelho "

Loved this.

Half of a Yellow Sun

I've already read The Curious incident... and it's a great book but I would like to read something next month that I haven't already read.
I would like to read more by Coetzee and I would like to read The Alchemist so a lot of these choices make me happy!

Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World - Vicki Myron (NF)

How about The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B.- quite different from the other suggestions, which are both great.

I loved the Haddon book, I might re-read that if it gets chosen. I've also read the alchemist, liked it would love to discuss; and the Glass Castle, which I didn't like.

Hey! The Alchemist is one of my favorite books and I definitely had read it... but Waiting for the Barbarians seems sooo goood;have this one in my TBR...
Well that means I'll skip the nomination... and pls get the voting started!!! ^_^

My nomination is: The Glass Castle A Memoir by Jeannette Walls

Thanks Fiona!

Love the new title by the way Smurfy!

Oooh errr errr Across the Nightingale Floor by Lian Hearn

Yes nominate anything you want!!!!

Can we nominate anything we want, or are there criteria? It's my first time...

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time -Mark Haddon

my nomination is:

The Alchemist by Paul Coelho

The days seem to fly by so fast! It's that time again. Start nominating your book reads for May 2009. Nominations close on April 20, 2009 at about 7:00 pm Central Time Zone. Then I'll get the poll set up for voting.

If we end up with a tie we will do a quick one day poll to break the tie like last month! Let the nominations begin!!!