HELLO!!! We have our winners for May!!!

[[deleted user]]

Category 1:
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

[Jen B]

Category 2:
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

[Allison]

Joanna wrote: "Category 2 The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley"

ooooo good choice!!!

[Lori, Super Mod]

ok Fiona, the change has been made.

[Avory]

Can we second a nomination, or are all the nominations automatically put up to vote?

[[deleted user]]

All nominations are automatically put up for vote as long as they are made by Thursday.

[Barb]

Cat 1 - Seabiscuit
by Laura Hillenbrand - Since it is May's selection - all about horseracing in honor of the Kentucky Derby...

[Mary Beth]

Category 1: In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson

[Avory]

Thanks, Linda! In that case, for Category 2 I'd like to nominate Wide Awake by David Levithan.

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Category 1: A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

[Linda]

Lori wrote: "Linda.....
please reread the rules I posted.
I cannot accept your nominations the way they are.
PLease edit them."

I go with my Category 1 nomination.

[Lydia]

Category 1: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

[Bucket]

Category 1: The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon by Tom Spanbauer

[Jill]

Category 2: Dealing with Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede.

This is a book I honestly think just about everyone in this group will love. It's a non-traditional take on fairy tales, like Stardust. It's about a tomboy princess who prefers to go live with the dragons than live and act like a traditional princess is supposed to live and act.

[Kevin]

In keeping with my promise to Fiona...this is on my "to read" shelf. :)

Cat 2: City of Bonesby Cassandra Clare

[Becky]

Kevin, you have to pick just one nomination. :)

[Kevin]

Becky wrote: "Kevin, you have to pick just one nomination. :)"

Thanks for the help...I am not the sharpest knife in the drawer. :O)

[Lori, Super Mod]

Recap of the past two days:


Cat1:
Suite Française - Irène Némirovsky
Three Cups of Tea One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time - Greg Mortenson
Handle with Care - Jodi Picoult
Prodigal Summer A Novel - Barbara Kingsolver
Amsterdam - Ian McEwan
Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami
Someone Knows My Name - Lawrence Hill
People of the Book - Geraldine Brooks
Atonement - Ian McEwan
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
The Devil in the White City Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America - Erik Larson
Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World - Vicki Myron
Unless - Carol Shields
A Thread of Grace - Mary Doria Russell
let the northern lights erase your name - vendela vida
The Tenth Gift - Jane Johnson
choke - Chuck Palahniuk
Persuasion - jane austen
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Seabiscuit - Laura Hillenbrand
In a Sunburned Country - Bill Bryson
A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon - Tom Spanbauer

Cat2:
The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
I Capture The Castle - Dodie Smith
Eragon - Christopher Paolini
A Northern Light - Jennifer Donnelly
Across the Nightingale Floor - Lian Hearn
The Midnight Twins - Jacquelyn Mitchard
My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins and Fenway Park - Steve Kluger
Uglies - Scott Westerfeld
The Chocolate War - Robert Cormier
Graceling - Kristin Cashore
Black and White - Paul Volponi
The Goose Girl - Shannon Hale
Flight - Sherman Alexie
Crank - Ellen Hopkins
The Devil's Arithmetic - Jane Yolen
The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
City of Bones - Cassandra Clare
I Am the Messenger - Markus Zusak
Luthiel's Song Dreams of the Ringed Vale - Robert Fanney
Speak - Laurie Halse Anderson
The Hero and the Crown - Robin McKinley
Wide Awake - David Levithan
Dealing with Dragons - Patricia C. Wrede

[Lori, Super Mod]

Wow. I know I said I was going to keep this going until Thursday nite, but since the lists are so long already, I am going to end nominations tonite.

[Linda]

Lori wrote: "Linda.....
please reread the rules I posted.
I cannot accept your nominations the way they are.
PLease edit them."

Lori, I have edited my post.

[Manday]

Cat 1 - Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

[Kim]

Category 1 - The Secret History by Donna Tartt

[Sera]

Category 1 - The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney

[Jen]

Cat 1 - This Present Darkness by Frank E. Peretti

[Louise]

Catagory 1: The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter which is a collection of modernised fairy tales.

Thanks.

[Carol]

Cat 2: Blue Is For Nightmares by Laurie Faria Stolarz :D

I so need to nominate book I already have lol

[Kathy]

Sera wrote: "Category 1 - The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney"

I loved this book.

[Sharon]

Elizabeth (Alaska) (new) 04/13/2009 03:53PM
Sharon wrote: "Category 1 - [b:Three Cups of Tea One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time|49436|Three Cups of Tea One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time|Greg Mortenso..."

Isn't this non-fiction?

Yeah, its non-fiction. Category 1 is regular fiction or non-fiction.

[El]

Category 1: The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion.

[Jeane]

There are already so many books on the lsit I want to read!!

[Carol]

It will be veeery difficult to vote lol

[Stephanie]

Category 2 - Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging Confessions of Georgia Nicolson by Louise Rennison

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Stephanie wrote: "Category 2 - [b:Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging Confessions of Georgia Nicolson|402013|Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging Confessions of Georgia Nicolson|Louise Rennison|http://photo..."

That's just about the most disgusting title imaginable.

[Kandice]

Snogging is just kissing!

[Allison]

LOL!!! When I read the title, I saw "anuses" instead of "angus" and I thought it sounded disgusting too :P

Now I just think it sounds funny :)

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Georgia's memoirs might say snogging is kissing, but I think it's a stage or two beyond that.

[Allison]

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Georgia's memoirs might say snogging is kissing, but I think it's a stage or two beyond that."

the definition of snogging is "kissing and cuddling", so its not really open for interpretation.

[Adam]

So many to choose from. Maybe we should do one vote to get the lists to a top 5 and then another to finish it off :)

[Kate]

That is a smart idea, Adam!

[Sara ♥]

I've read the book--it's not a gross book.

Georgia has an entire snogging scale, that starts with "sticky eyes," "holding hands," "arm around," and "goodnight kiss".

To see the entire scale, visit the author's website: http://www.georgianicolson.com/extras...

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

OK, let's take "snogging" down to the "bonk" thread. Maybe it doesn't have the meaning I thought.

[Carla]

cat1 - Tropic of Cancer Henry Miller
cat2 - The Wild Girls Pat Murphy

[Kate]

Carla wrote: "cat1 - Tropic of Cancer Henry Miller
cat2 - The Wild Girls Pat Murphy"

Carla, you can only nominate one of the books... either the one for cat1 or the one for cat2...

[Lori, Super Mod]

Dis be da list:

Cat1:
Suite Française - Irène Némirovsky
Three Cups of Tea One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time - Greg Mortenson
Handle with Care - Jodi Picoult
Prodigal Summer A Novel - Barbara Kingsolver
Amsterdam - Ian McEwan
Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami
Someone Knows My Name - Lawrence Hill
People of the Book - Geraldine Brooks
Atonement - Ian McEwan
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
The Devil in the White City Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America - Erik Larson
Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World - Vicki Myron
Unless - Carol Shields
A Thread of Grace - Mary Doria Russell
let the northern lights erase your name - vendela vida
The Tenth Gift - Jane Johnson
choke - Chuck Palahniuk
Persuasion - jane austen
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Seabiscuit - Laura Hillenbrand
In a Sunburned Country - Bill Bryson
A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon - Tom Spanbauer
Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
The Tenderness of Wolves - Stef Penney
This Present Darkness - Frank E. Peretti
The Bloody Chamber - Angela Carter
The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion
Fidali's Way A Novel - George Mastras

Cat2:
The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
I Capture The Castle - Dodie Smith
Eragon - Christopher Paolini
A Northern Light - Jennifer Donnelly
Across the Nightingale Floor - Lian Hearn
The Midnight Twins - Jacquelyn Mitchard
My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins and Fenway Park - Steve Kluger
Uglies - Scott Westerfeld
The Chocolate War - Robert Cormier
Graceling - Kristin Cashore
Black and White - Paul Volponi
The Goose Girl - Shannon Hale
Flight - Sherman Alexie
Crank - Ellen Hopkins
The Devil's Arithmetic - Jane Yolen
The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
City of Bones - Cassandra Clare
I Am the Messenger - Markus Zusak
Luthiel's Song Dreams of the Ringed Vale - Robert Fanney
Speak - Laurie Halse Anderson
The Hero and the Crown - Robin McKinley
Wide Awake - David Levithan
Dealing with Dragons - Patricia C. Wrede
Blue Is For Nightmares - Laurie Faria Stolarz
Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging Confessions of Georgia Nicolson - Louise Rennison



OK, Im closing up shop! What a great turnout for nominations everyone! I think this is the longest list Ive had yet!!!

I will be posting a voting thread as soon as I get the polls up and running for these. Do not cast votes here, they will not count.

[Sara ♥]

My goodness, this is going to be difficult! All those great YA books! And I haven't heard of half the adult ones, so I'll have to do quite a bit of research before I vote...

[Carol]

hahahahaha so true Sara. I´ll start the research now lol

[Lori, Super Mod]

So, the polls are up, and I just want everyone to please go back through the polls and make sure you see your nominations there.

If it isnt there, check your post first before calling it out. If you didnt follow the rules for posting, it isnt going to be added.

If you did post correctly, and I overlooked it by accident, then I will go back and add it.

[Lori, Super Mod]

Dang, people are already in there voting :)
You guys and gals are quick!!!!

Voting is open until the 20th... so you have all the way through the weekend!

[Carol]

a-há! I voted second lol

Let´s see how the polls goes... I think this time I won´t be able to escape I Capture the Castle haha

[Carol]

yeah, I´m voting on the books I own too lol

The Cat 2 was too easy for you Fiona, not fair haha