Hi guys. I thought I would start the voting for the September books a little early. Plz list the books you'd like to read. We'll pick two books again. Plz remember I can't get every single book on the poll. I will take the ones that are mentioned the most. I'll let everyone know when I have the poll set up. Thanks to everyone for making this such a great book club.

Mary

I would like to read these books
Bitten
Road Of The Dead
The Lovely Bones
Dracula
To name a few

I would like to nominate:


The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri -

In The Namesake, Lahiri enriches the themes that made her collection an international bestseller: the immigrant experience, the clash of cultures, the conflicts of assimilation, and, most poignantly, the tangled ties between generations. Here again Lahiri displays her deft touch for the perfect detail -- the fleeting moment, the turn of phrase -- that opens whole worlds of emotion. The Namesake takes the Ganguli family from their tradition-bound life in Calcutta through their fraught transformation into Americans. On the heels of their arranged marriage, Ashoke and Ashima Ganguli settle together in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

An engineer by training, Ashoke adapts far less warily than his wife, who resists all things American and pines for her family. When their son is born, the task of naming him betrays the vexed results of bringing old ways to the new world. Named for a Russian writer by his Indian parents in memory of a catastrophe years before, Gogol Ganguli knows only that he suffers the burden of his heritage as well as his odd, antic name. Lahiri brings great empathy to Gogol as he stumbles along a first-generation path strewn with conflicting loyalties, comic detours, and wrenching love affairs. With penetrating insight, she reveals not only the defining power of the names and expectations bestowed upon us by our parents, but also the means by which we slowly, sometimes painfully, come to define ourselves. The New York Times has praised Lahiri as "a writer of uncommon elegance and poise." The Namesake is a fine-tuned, intimate, and deeply felt novel of identity.

The Namesake

Since I am fairly new, I am not sure what has already been read, but here are some new ones I would love to read and discuss:

The Angels Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Sacred Hearts by Sarah Dunant
Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah
and I second the Lovely Bones

Second The Namesake. (That's a really good idea.)

(Melissa, normally, they try to keep the selections to paperbacks. But I'd bet a week's salary the month the Zafon appears in paper it gets nominated. BTW, a weeks salary? Not as much as you think.)

I nominate:
The Forgotten Garden and Mudbound

I nominate:
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and
The Book Thief

I want to read The girl with the dragon tattoo and Hunger games aswell

I nominate:
The Book Thief
The Girl with the Dragon Tatto

Pride, Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith
The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti
Mudbound by Hillary Jordon
Lush Life by Richard Price

The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
I already read the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo but I would love to read it again!

I would like to read

The Lovely Bones-Alice Sebold
Sharp Objects-Gillian Flynn
Along for the ride-Sarah Dessen
The Hunger Games-Suzanne Collins

I'll be leading a discussion of Don Quixote in September as our alternate book choice. We plan to discuss the book until the 2nd week of October, but I'm actually hoping to be finished reading it before the end of September. I have Dracula on my to-read list, so I second that nomination. Pride & Prejudice & Zombies is one I wouldn't mind checking out, either.

Sharon

I would recommend Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese and The Outlander by Gil Adamson.

The Time Travelers Wife-Audrey Niffenegger
Life Senetences-Laura Lippman
Everyone She Loved-Sheila Curran

I would like to read Pride & Prejudice and Zombies and
The Book Theif. I would love to read The Forgotten Garden, but I can't find it anywhere except Barnes and Noble. lol

I second the Count of Monte Cristo and Dracula as they're on my TBR list and I already own them.

I'd also like to read The Duchessby Amanda Foreman and Marie Antoinette The Journey by Antonia Fraser.

I have read The Book Thief but wouldn't mind doing it again. I also would like to read The Girl with the Golden Tattoo.

Pride & Prejudice & Zombies
The Hunger Games
Dracula (re-read for me)
And I wouldn't mind re-reading The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Possession by A.S. Byatt or Dear American Airlines

I am going to nominate Barefoot A Novel by Elin Hilderbrand

Nathaniel wrote: "Possession by A.S. Byatt or Dear American Airlines"

Hi Nathaniel. Is "Dear American Airlines," really a book?

Mary

No it's my online manifesto.

Yes. It's a book...
http://www.amazon.com/Dear-American-Airl...

And on second thought, withdraw the idea.

Hi all. You are picking such great books. I'll wait other day or two and I'll set up the poll. Don't you wish we could make money by staying home and reading?

Mary

I do Mary. How amazing would that be, staying at home reading and getting paid for it! :)

Hi Jo. My idea is for us all to buy several condos on the beach in Maui. We can all take turns living in Maui and reading all day on the beach. Doesn't that sound like heaven? We'd better start collecting money now. LOL!

mary

Im in! Sign me up! I think we should have started saving before we were born if we want any hope of doing that!

Hi Jo. There over 260 of us. Surely we could come up with the money for two condos, don't you think? We could just rent them monthly. Why must we work? Who invented work anyway?

Mary

LOL thats a lot of people to be fair! I'm nearly 21, i figure thats a good time to retire. I would be more than happy not to work anymore

I'd like to read Dracula, but I think we should save that for the October read!

I'd second the nominations for Cutting for Stone and Possession.

Dracula in October is a great idea. Maybe it could be pared with Frankenstein for the October reads.

I would like to read Olive Kitteridge and White Tiger.

Maggie wrote: "Dracula in October is a great idea. Maybe it could be pared with Frankenstein for the October reads. "

I like that idea Maggie

Michelle wrote: "Pride & Prejudice & Zombies
The Hunger Games
Dracula (re-read for me)
And I wouldn't mind re-reading The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"

I would also like to read The Hunger Games

Oh, and in memory of Frank McCourt's passing, I nominate Teacher Man.

Hi all. That's it for the book voting. Anything added after this post won't be included in the counting process. I'll try to set up the poll tomorrow morning. What a great bunch of books. I wish I could put them all on the poll but there's only room for so many. Thanks!

mary

Nathaniel wrote: "Possession by A.S. Byatt or Dear American Airlines"

Agreed! This is one of my favorite books and I would love to re-read it. :) I second this motion.

Sarah's Key
by Tatiana DeRosnay

Maggie wrote: "Dracula in October is a great idea. Maybe it could be pared with Frankenstein for the October reads. "

Maggie, I've been thinking about this idea all day! I think that's a really neat idea. :) Dracula is on my to read list. lol

Maggie wrote: "Dracula in October is a great idea. Maybe it could be pared with Frankenstein for the October reads. "

Maggie that would be SO COOL! Those have both been on my list forever. I'd love to read those two in October. Even if the club doesn't vote for doing that, we should do it as a side read.

Count me in too, Kim!

Hi guys. I think Dracula is a great idea for October. Looks like it has about 528 pages depending on the edition. Frankenstein has a little over 300 pages. We will have to find something Christmas themed to read at Christmas. We read "A Christmas Carol," one year. It was great fun.

Mary

I think Dracula would be great! I haven't read it yet but it's on my to read list. I just finished Frankenstein a few weeks ago. Liked it a lot.

Voting ends tomorrow! Hurry up and GET the Vote Out!

The White tiger and The girl with the dragon tattoo

And we're tied? Do you really want it to end in a tie?

Vote!!!

Hi Jilly. Thanks for the reminder to vote.

mary

Good Morning. In case you missed the e-mail our new books for September are: "The Book Thief," and "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo." Plz go ahead and buy the books before September. We won't start discussing them into sometime in September. I try to give everyone time to get the books. Thanks again to everyone who voted. Great job.

Mary

Mary wrote: "Hi guys. I think Dracula is a great idea for October. Looks like it has about 528 pages depending on the edition. Frankenstein has a little over 300 pages. We will have to find something Christmas ..."

What about Christopher Moore's The Stupidest Angel???? That's fantastic for Christmas!

I am up for reading that for christmas!