Nominate November 2012's Group Read **VOTING CLOSED!**

[Diane U]

It's time to start nominations for November's Christian Fiction group read. Since there are so many wonderful Christmas books, I thought we should read them in November and December. Please list your nominations for Christmas reads for November:

Rules:
1. Nominations are open until the 14th of the month. I will let us know which book has "won" on the 15th.
2. Books must be Christian fiction, or "clean" fiction to be eligible for this read.
3. Books are chosen using Random.org to make it completely fair.
3. One nomination per person.

Nominations so far:

1. Christmas at Harrington's by Melody Carlson - Diane
2. Mail-Order Christmas Brides: Her Christmas Family\Christmas Stars for Dry Creek by Jillian Hart - Lorie
3. Love Finds You under the Mistletoe by Irene Brand - Barbara Ann
4. Baby, It's Cold Outside by Susan May Warren - Carole
5. An Amish Christmas: December in Lancaster County by Beth Wiseman - Sarah
6. The Doctor's Christmas by Marta Perry - Carolyn
7. A Wreath of Snow: A Victorian Christmas Novella by Liz Curtis Higgs - Rachel
8.

[Diane U]

I'll start the nominations with:

Christmas at Harrington's by Melody Carlson

[[deleted user]]

I'll nominate Baby, It's Cold Outside by Susan May Warren

[Lorie]

Mail-Order Christmas Brides: Her Christmas Family\Christmas Stars for Dry Creek

[Diane U]

I received a PM from Elizabeth that she is leaving GoodReads. So I removed her nomination per her request.

[Barbara]

I'll nominate Love Finds You under the Mistletoe by Irene Brand

[Carole]

I'd like to nominate Baby, It's Cold Outside in Elizabeth's place, Diane. I can rarely get new releases from my library, so I'm usually a year behind in my Christmas reading. Anyway, I put a hold on this book and should have it in a couple of weeks.

[Sarah]

An Amish Christmas

[Carolyn E]

I would like to nominate The Doctor's Christmas by Marta Perry.

[Rachel]

I'd like to nominate A Wreath of Snow: A Victorian Christmas Novella by Liz Curtis Higgs.

Also, if Sarah wants to nominate An Amish Christmas: December in Lancaster County shouldn't this be in our Amish nominations?

[Diane U]

Rachel, it doesn't matter to me which group read it is in. I think we'll leave it here for this month but clarify it for next month.

[Rachel]

Coolies. Well, without further ado, next month's read will be...

#6 The Doctor's Christmas by Marta Perry!

Two Love Inspired novels in November :) I believe Marta is a member of our group, so maybe she'll pop by during this discussion.

[Lorie]

This looks like a good book, but I don't think it is on Kindle?

[Diane U]

Lorie wrote: "This looks like a good book, but I don't think it is on Kindle?"

I just checked and it is not available for the kindle. Boohoo! :( I may have to buy it used instead!

[Rachel]

Since it's an older book, it should be fairly easy to get it used at a reasonable price on Amazon. Or, there's a couple of copies available on BookMooch: http://bookmooch.com/m/detail/0373872429

[Carole]

I would love to read this book, but it's only available in mass market paperback and the print is too small for me to comfortably read anymore. I sure do wish they would release a Kindle version!

[Rachel]

Carole wrote: "I would love to read this book, but it's only available in mass market paperback and the print is too small for me to comfortably read anymore. I sure do wish they would release a Kindle version!"

That's a pity :( Is there a large print edition available? I know that some Love Inspired books have editions with larger print in them, since I've accidentally purchased them on occasion as the covers are so similar!

I think you can get an ebook of this from the Harlequin website but it's in ePub edition.

[Lorie]

I just bought the Kindle edition. It has a different cover but it is the same book. The link on this site sent me to one that you just buy, but I went to the Kindle store and found it there.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Doctors-Chr...

[Diane U]

Great find Lorie! :) Thanks for sharing the link!

[Carole]

Thanks for the link, Lorie. I searched this morning and all I saw was the mass market edition.

I appreciate your suggestion, Rachel, but ePub doesn't work on Kindle. However, I've found that most ebooks available from the Harlequin website are also available through Amazon, which seems to be the case with this one.

[Rachel]

Carole wrote: "Thanks for the link, Lorie. I searched this morning and all I saw was the mass market edition.

I appreciate your suggestion, Rachel, but ePub doesn't work on Kindle. However, I've found that mos..."

I know, that's the pain about the ePubs. I've been able to convert them to .mobi files in the past using Calibre, but sometimes it can really mess up the formatting on the file.

Glad you all found the Kindle edition! We don't have it on Kindle in the UK yet so I'll probably just buy a used copy.

[Carole]

Rachel, where in the UK do you live? From the time I discovered Agatha Christie as a teenager, I've been reading mysteries set in that locale. I visited my daughter a couple of years ago in Germany, where she serves as a missionary, but that's probably as close to the UK as I'll ever get.

I looked into Calibre once, but it seemed complicated - and I decided that I already had more than I could ever read in my Kindle archives.

[Rachel]

Carole, I live in Scotland. I live in a little coastal town called Anstruther (famous for its fish and chips), not far from St Andrews, where I'm just finished up my degree. I'm sure most people have heard of St Andrews, thanks to the recent wedding of Will and Kate ;)

I read my first Agatha Christie novel last year, funnily enough. My mum was a big fan as a teenager but somehow I never got around to reading her books until now. When I'm done with my degree and have more time, I'd definitely like to read more of her books.

I only downloaded Calibre because sometime last year there was an issue with Amazon not letting NetGalley send books straight to your Kindle and I needed to read books for reviews, so I found a plug-in that would let me convert books to the right format until NetGalley fixed the issue. Sometimes I convert PDFs with it, or books I get from CBD when they're on sale, but it does look kind of complicated to begin with - there's so many buttons on it!

[Carole]

Rachel, I meant to respond to your post before now...sorry about that!

You live in a beautiful location! (I searched for images of Anstruther) I think that anywhere in Scotland would be beautiful, but coastal towns are especially so to me. If I lived there, I would constantly go for walks along the harbor. Do you ever take such a beautiful location for granted?

And yes, I'm quite familiar with St. Andrews, because I'm a big fan of Will and Kate. I hope St. Andrews has been a good college for you.

[Rachel]

No worries! Anstruther is beautiful. I don't think I take the location for granter - if anything, I think moving here has made me realise how thankful I am to live in a beautiful part of God's creation. I often try to read when I'm travelling on the bus between Anstruther and St Andrews and find myself distracted by how lovely the countryside is :) St Andrews itself is kind of like a mini-city (at least for a country girl like me) and living in town for three years made me appreciate moving back to the country again, I think. I think I have the best of both worlds, with the country and the coast, but it is pretty chilly and windy being so close to the sea.

St Andrews has been a great experience, although I am getting a bit weary of university life. It's quite nice being able to live outside of St Andrews this year and start to transition into life in the real world. My husband has a job interview in Edinburgh next week so we may end up in a city next year, although if we did, we'd prefer to live on the outskirts. I need to be able to see grass and farms and tractors! LOL :)