Apr/May '14 Group Read Nominations

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Wow are we voting on Apr/May already?? Time flies!

Please add your nominations here for the next group read please.

Lets keep it to one nomination per person this time please. I was a little concerned that we had so many nominations last month that they would all receive only one vote and no book would be a clear winner!

So add your choices here please and as of the 31st March this topic will close. 1-7th April will be voting and then reading will commence on the 15th April.

Many thanks,

Vikki

[[deleted user]]

I nominate Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History.

[[deleted user]]

I nominate The Introvert's Way: Living a Quiet Life in a Noisy World

[GeneralTHC]

Terri wrote: "I nominate Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History."

I second that!

[Sabrina]

I nominate "Miracle In The Andes" by Nando Parrado. If you've seen "Alive" it tells most of the story, but in this book he is looking back at it some 30 years later. It is one of the most inspirational books I have ever read.

[Sabrina]

Also nominate "Shadow Divers". It is an amazing story about deep sea wreck divers discovering a U-Boat. Written in the 90s I believe.

[[deleted user]]

I second shadow divers. I like the sound of it.

[Sabrina]

When will you announce the next group read selection?

[[deleted user]]

Is anyone interested in setting up a group read for July?

[Julia]

Me too

[[deleted user]]

How about some suggestions for what we should read?

[[deleted user]]

Here are some of the nonfiction books I'll be reading in the next few weeks. If anyone is interested, we could do a group read on any of them. I am also open to other suggestions.

A Severe Mercy
Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery
The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam
The Letters of Samuel Beckett: Volume 1, 1929-1940
My Paris Kitchen: Recipes and Stories
House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East
Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Optimist Reformer

[GeneralTHC]

Good idea, Terri! Would you be up for any of these sometime in the next month or so?

A House in the Sky

Hard Choices

Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

Vanished: The Sixty-Year Search for the Missing Men of World War II

Pilgrim's Wilderness: A True Story of Faith and Madness on the Alaska Frontier

Murder in the High Himalaya: Loyalty, Tragedy and Escape from Tibet

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Hey, Chuck! I'd really like to read Murder in the High Himalaya: Loyalty, Tragedy and Escape from Tibet. I happen to be on a Tibet kick, and this fits right in. I'd probably be ready any time after this Saturday. (A House in the Sky also appeals to me.) :)

[GeneralTHC]

Sounds good, Terri! Let me know when you're ready and we'll set it up right here. :)

[GeneralTHC]

Iasa wrote: "If I can find a copy, I'm in too, if that's okay"

That'd be great!

[Julia]

I'd be interested in House in the Sky. Just throwing that out there :D

[[deleted user]]

Julia, maybe we can do A House in the Sky after Murder in the High Himalaya: Loyalty, Tragedy and Escape from Tibet. I'll let you know when I'm ready. :)

[GeneralTHC]

Sounds good to me!

[Julia]

Yes, good idea.

[[deleted user]]

I can start Murder in the High Himalaya: Loyalty, Tragedy and Escape from Tibet any time.

[GeneralTHC]

Terri wrote: "I can start Murder in the High Himalaya: Loyalty, Tragedy and Escape from Tibet any time."

Alright, cool! I need to finish the one I'm reading now--it's AWESOME!--so it will probably be late tonight or tomorrow before I read it. But feel free to start if you want, I set up a thread for it right here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... :)