The WINNERS for August's Group Read are....

[Angela]

Felicia-it has to be a book already out on DVD.
Keith-only ONE nomination per person.

[Lori, Super Mod]

Keith, you still havent gotten it right.
Look at the rules, and then look at your post. Compare your post to those of everyone elses... what is missing? What is wrong?

I JUST posted it even!

[Joanie]

Was just going to sit back and vote this time but then I thought of one I've been wanting to read-not sure how the movie was but here goes.

Category 2

In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez

[Sherrie]

Category 1 - Cloud Atlas David Mitchell

[Cynthia]

Oops I forgot to post the author...my bad.
Category 2: Must Love Dogs by Claire Cook.

[Cathyb]

Cat 1: Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon

[Jaclyn]

Cat 2: The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

[Brenda]

Category 1: Cutting for Stone
A friend of mine just read this and she said it was AMAZING.

[Gretta]

Cat 1: We Need to Talk About Kevin: A Novel
by Lionel Shriver

[Katie]

category two: The Prestige by Christopher Priest

[Bhumi]

Category 2: The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

[April]

Category 2: The Age of Innocence by Edith Warton

[Slayermel]

Category 2: Fight Club A Novel by Chuck Palahniuk

[Liz M]

Category 1: The Inheritance Of Loss by Kiran Desai

[Kelley]

Cat2: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

[Jon]

Cat 1, Vanity Fair, William Makepiece Thackeray

[Lori, Super Mod]

Here is our nominations recap :


Cat1
Dance Dance Dance - Haruki Murakami
The Necklace Thirteen Women and the Experiment That Transformed Their Lives - Cheryl Jarvis
The Memory Keeper's Daughter - Kim Edwards
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
The Shack - William P. Young
The Help - Katherine Stockett
Somebody Else's Daughter - Elizabeth Brundage
Those Who Save Us - Jenna Blum
The Gargoyle - Andrew Davidson
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
Await Your Reply - Dan Chaon
We Need to Talk About Kevin: A Novel
- Lionel Shriver
The Inheritance Of Loss - Kiran Desai
Vanity Fair - William Makepiece Thackeray



Cat2
Atonement - Ian McEwan
North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell
The Reader - Bernhard Schlink
The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri
No Country for Old Men - Cormac McCarthy
Choke - Chuck Palahniuk
The Positronic Man - Isaac Asimov
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
The Boy in The Striped Pajamas - John Boyne
Seabiscuit - Laura Hillenbrand
Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton
The City of Ember - Jeanne Duprau
Shogun - James Clavell
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
What Dreams May Come - Richard Matheson
The Hunt for Red October - Tom Clancy
The Hours - Michael Cunningham
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
The Cider House Rules - John Irving
The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides
In the Time of the Butterflies - Julia Alvarez
Must Love Dogs - Claire Cook
The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan
The Prestige - Christopher Priest
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
The Age of Innocence - Edith Warton
Fight Club A Novel - Chuck Palahniuk
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee



***If you do not see your nomination here, it is because it does not have all the required information that was listed in Post#1. In order to have them added to the list, you must delete your original post (since it was posted prior to this list, since I am not backtracking old posts from here) and post a NEW nomination with all three required pcs of information.

And again, there is no need to nominate a book that has already been nominated. You are basically just wasting your turn. So go ahead and post a new nomination. Just remember.... ONE NOMINATION PER PERSON, NOT ONE PER CATAGORY!

Thanks, and keep those noms coming. We still have until tonite to get them in.

[Manday]

Cat 1: Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson

[Keith]

Cat 2: The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler

[Lori, Super Mod]

Ahhhhh.. Keith! Yay! You got one in :)

[Meranda]

Katie wrote: "category two: The Prestige by Christopher Priest"



I didn't know this was a book! Although I should have just assumed since all good movies are based of books! haha

I am definetly going to have to add this to my TBR list!!

[Nadia]

The Blue Hour by Lilian Pizzichini (biography of Jean Rhys) nonfiction text.

[Tanya]

How about:
Cat 1- Valley of the Dolls- Jacqueline Susann

[Lori, Super Mod]

Tanya, isnt that a movie also?

[Gretta]

Valley of the Dolls is a movie. I actually saw the DVD at Blockbuster a few weeks ago. Amazingly dated!

[Carol]

I think it is, Lori.

[Charity]

Vanity Fair is also a movie.

[Diane]

Gretta wrote: "Valley of the Dolls is a movie. I actually saw the DVD at Blockbuster a few weeks ago. Amazingly dated!"

Now that's a classic to re-watch some Saturday afternoon! Patty Duke, Sharon Tate...

[Lori, Super Mod]

Well, I will leave the books the way they were nominated, unless the nominators want to change them....

[Tanya]

Ooops! I wasn't aware that there was a movie! It's just always been a book that I've wanted to read, and its sitting on my shelf staring at me...

I want to play by the rules so by all means, change the category to where it's supposed to be...

[Melissa]

Cat 2 - A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

[JSou]

Ooooh, good one, Melissa!

[Melissa]

:) thanks! been meaning to get around to it for absolutely ages!

[Charity]

Cat. 1: Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

[Krystal]

I vote Cat 2 P.S I Love you Cecelia Ahern

[Adam]

The Magus by John Fowles Category 2

[Lori, Super Mod]

I will leave this go till Midnite (my time) which leaves two hours....
Any nominations posted after midnite will be excluded from the polls.

Tomorrow morning I will let you know when I will post the polls for voting.

[Sallie(GeorgiaGirl)]

thanks lori - looking forward to voting

[Jon]

Charity wrote: "Vanity Fair is also a movie."

yeah i was being tactical by putting in cat 1, less competition!

[Charity]

yeah i was being tactical by putting in cat 1, less competition!

I should have figured as much. :-) That book has been sitting on my shelf for far too long. I really need to give it a read. I did see the newest film adaptation and enjoyed it. I'll have to watch it again once I finish reading the book.

[Lori, Super Mod]

Here is the final peek before I create the polls.

Cat1
Dance Dance Dance - Haruki Murakami
The Necklace Thirteen Women and the Experiment That Transformed Their Lives - Cheryl Jarvis
The Memory Keeper's Daughter - Kim Edwards
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
The Shack - William P. Young
The Help - Katherine Stockett
Somebody Else's Daughter - Elizabeth Brundage
Those Who Save Us - Jenna Blum
The Gargoyle - Andrew Davidson
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
Await Your Reply - Dan Chaon
We Need to Talk About Kevin: A Novel
- Lionel Shriver
The Inheritance Of Loss - Kiran Desai
Vanity Fair - William Makepiece Thackeray
Winesburg, Ohio - Sherwood Anderson
The Blue Hour - Lilian Pizzichini
Valley of the Dolls - Jacqueline Susann
Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri



Cat2
Atonement - Ian McEwan
North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell
The Reader - Bernhard Schlink
The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri
No Country for Old Men - Cormac McCarthy
Choke - Chuck Palahniuk
The Positronic Man - Isaac Asimov
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
The Boy in The Striped Pajamas - John Boyne
Seabiscuit - Laura Hillenbrand
Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton
The City of Ember - Jeanne Duprau
Shogun - James Clavell
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
What Dreams May Come - Richard Matheson
The Hunt for Red October - Tom Clancy
The Hours - Michael Cunningham
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
The Cider House Rules - John Irving
The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides
In the Time of the Butterflies - Julia Alvarez
Must Love Dogs - Claire Cook
The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan
The Prestige - Christopher Priest
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
The Age of Innocence - Edith Warton
Fight Club A Novel - Chuck Palahniuk
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Jane Austen Book Club - Karen Joy Fowler
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
P.S I Love you - Cecelia Ahern
The Magus - John Fowles

[Lori, Super Mod]

Polls are now open for voting. To the right of the group home page you will see the poll option, click it and vote away.

The site will only allow you to vote for one book per catagory, however you can change your vote as many times as you like up until closing time.

The polls will remain open until July 27th which is Monday.

[Sallie(GeorgiaGirl)]

I vote Cat 1 - The Help & Cat 2 - No Country for Old Men...

[Lori, Super Mod]

Sallie, please follow the directions I wrote out in post #1 and post #95

You cannot vote here in this thread. It wont be counted.

[Diane]

I am excited that my selection for Cat. 2 (The Reader) is winning by a slight margin.

[Lori, Super Mod]

ooohhh. dont jinx it Diane :)

[Carol]

she did it lol

[Angela]

There is a tie for The Reader and The Boy in the Striped Pajamas!!

[Lori, Super Mod]

And the winners are::::

The Reader for the Book and Movie Pair

and

The Time Traveler's Wife for Regular Fiction



I will create the discussion threads on the 1st of the month. I hope you all will join us for one or both of these group reads :)

[Andreea]

But The Time Traveler's Wife is not going to be released in Europe until September/later in some countries. Oh well.