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Hi Friends! I apologize for not putting up this thread earlier. I will leave the nominations open until the 18th and then do voting from the 19th-28th this time to give people a chance to nominate.Our July genre is Dystopian- one of my favorites!
Please, double check we have not already read the book you are nominating. You can see all of our past books on the group shelf.
A Few Reminders About Nominations
- Each member may nominate one book AND may also second one book that has already been nominated.
-If you want to only nominate or only second a book without nominating anything that is fine.
- If we get more than 10 nominations then the 10 books with the most seconds will go to the poll.
- There are no minimum page counts for a book to be nominated.
- Books must be first in a series or a stand alone unless the group has already read the book in the series that came before the one being nominated.
- Nominations will close the afternoon of June 18th
Current Nominations
Hi Friends! I apologize for not putting up this thread earlier. I will leave the nominations open until the 18th and then do voting from the 19th-28th this time to give people a chance to nominate.Our July genre is Dystopian- one of my favorites!
Please, double check we have not already read the book you are nominating. You can see all of our past books on the group shelf.
A Few Reminders About Nominations
- Each member may nominate one book AND may also second one book that has already been nominated.
-If you want to only nominate or only second a book without nominating anything that is fine.
- If we get more than 10 nominations then the 10 books with the most seconds will go to the poll.
- There are no minimum page counts for a book to be nominated.
- Books must be first in a series or a stand alone unless the group has already read the book in the series that came before the one being nominated.
- Nominations will close the afternoon of June 18th
Current Nominations
The Winner's Curse
The First Days
The Man in the High Castle
Parable of the Sower
That Risen Snow: Snow White & Zombies
The Darkest Minds
Divergent
D - yes we are. Sorry for being late setting up the thread. Nikki has had internet issues lately and I am still learning all the timelines. I’ll head over and make the thread right now.
I am waiting for the library audio hold to come in, so I’ll probably be late with this rereading. I am in the minority, but I wish I had never read Watchman. For me it really tainted one of my favorite literary characters.
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by Renée Nault/Margaret AtwoodEverything Handmaids wear is red: the colour of blood, which defines us.
Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, where women are prohibited from holding jobs, reading, and forming friendships. She serves in the household of the Commander and his wife, and under the new social order she has only one purpose: once a month, she must lie on her back and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are valued only if they are fertile. But Offred remembers the years before Gilead, when she was an independent woman who had a job, a family, and a name of her own. Now, her memories and her will to survive are acts of rebellion.
Provocative, startling, prophetic, The Handmaid's Tale has long been a global phenomenon. With this stunning graphic novel adaptation of Margaret Atwood's modern classic, beautifully realized by artist Renee Nault, the terrifying reality of Gilead has been brought to vivid life like never before.
I think it's cool that To Kill a Mockingbird is both our novel and our graphic novel for this month!
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by Fred Fordham/Harper Lee A beautifully crafted graphic novel adaptation of Harper Lee’s beloved, Pulitzer prize–winning American classic.
"Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird."
A haunting portrait of race and class, innocence and injustice, hypocrisy and heroism, tradition and transformation in the Deep South of the 1930s, Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird remains as important today as it was upon its initial publication in 1960, during the turbulent years of the Civil Rights movement.
Now, this most beloved and acclaimed novel is reborn for a new age as a gorgeous graphic novel. Scout, Gem, Boo Radley, Atticus Finch, and the small town of Maycomb, Alabama, are all captured in vivid and moving illustrations by artist Fred Fordham.
Enduring in vision, Harper Lee’s timeless novel illuminates the complexities of human nature and the depths of the human heart with humor, unwavering honesty, and a tender, nostalgic beauty. Lifetime admirers and new readers alike will be touched by this special visual edition that joins the ranks of the graphic novel adaptations of A Wrinkle in Time and The Alchemist.
The Sun Does Shine - 272Beautiful Country Burn Again - 448
Parkland - 400
Murder on the Orient Express - 274
Life 3.0 - 364
Girl Meets Boy - 161
The Poetic Edda - 392
Lust, Caution - 96
The Broken Kingdom - 398
Freshwater - 298
Never Cry Wolf - 264
To the Lighthouse - 238
Now is the Time to Open your Heart - 213
total this post - 3,818
Group total 184,240 + 3,818 = 188,058
I enjoyed revisiting the Londons, and I enjoyed the story, but I thought the main characters often looked too similar in the art.
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by Harper Lee
The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it, To Kill A Mockingbird became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in 1960. It went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and was later made into an Academy Award-winning film, also a classic.
Compassionate, dramatic, and deeply moving, To Kill A Mockingbird takes readers to the roots of human behavior - to innocence and experience, kindness and cruelty, love and hatred, humor and pathos. Now with over 18 million copies in print and translated into forty languages, this regional story by a young Alabama woman claims universal appeal. Harper Lee always considered her book to be a simple love story. Today it is regarded as a masterpiece of American literature.
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by John SteinbeckIn his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden “the first book,” and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth. Set in the rich farmland of California’s Salinas Valley, this sprawling and often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families—the Trasks and the Hamiltons—whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel.
Adam Trask came to California from the East to farm and raise his family on the new rich land. But the birth of his twins, Cal and Aaron, brings his wife to the brink of madness, and Adam is left alone to raise his boys to manhood. One boy thrives nurtured by the love of all those around him; the other grows up in loneliness enveloped by a mysterious darkness.
First published in 1952, East of Eden is the work in which Steinbeck created his most mesmerizing characters and explored his most enduring themes: the mystery of identity, the inexplicability of love, and the murderous consequences of love's absence. A masterpiece of Steinbeck's later years, East of Eden is a powerful and vastly ambitious novel that is at once a family saga and a modern retelling of the Book of Genesis.
I totally forgot that I read this book this month because it was one of our choices this month! I have had it on my tbr forever. I agree with you that the world building was excellent. I was really surprised how much she packed into this book for it not being really that long for a fantasy. I just got book 2 from the library today. I have one I am finishing right now, but as soon as I am done I am going to listen to The Broken Kingdoms.
Shout - 296Welcome to Lovecraft - 168
The Book of the Unnamed Midwife - 291
The Library Book - 336
Canada - 307
Salt Houses - 320
On the Come Up - 447
Shades of Magic: Steel Prince 1 - 112
McGlue - 118
Trail of Lightning - 287
Coyote America - 271
The Butterfly Garden - 276
Raisin in the Sun - 155
All the Names they used for God - 272
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms - 421
Spare and found parts - 416
Alice - 291
An Unkindness of Ghosts - 351
total: 5,135
Group total 179,105 + 5,135 = 184,240
Group total 165,027 + Christine's 14,078 = 179, 105
D wrote: "I reread this recently after having read it for the first time as a teenager and I will say that the experience of reading it as an adult is a completely different one than that of reading it as a ..."I haven't read this one since high school - I have been revisiting a lot of King in the last couple years. I would be interested to see how my adult perspective changes the story.
Nicky wrote: "I would like to nominate My Cousin Rachel, by Daphne Du Maurier. It would have been her birthday on 13th May and as I’m in Cornwall next week I will be reading it whilst on my holiday. Would love t..."I have been rediscovering DuMaurier the last two years! She is amazing!
D wrote: "OK, cool. Then I’ll nominate wide Sargasso Sea."Ooo, good one! I'll second that.
Jamie, that was the other book I was going to nominate! I kept going back and forth between kindred and handmaid's tale.
Woot! Woot!
