Our next THREE Spring/Summer 2015 Group Reads are "The Invention of Wings", "The Pearl that Broke its Shell" and "Beloved"

[Sheila , Supporting Chick]

It is time to nominate some books for our next Group read(s) for the spring of 2015.

If you nominate a book, be willing to lead the discussion of the book if your book is selected.

So what would you like to nominate for our next Group read? These can be new releases, older releases, popular books, thought provoking books, etc.

We will be running a poll in a few weeks to select our next group reads from the books nominated.

[Pam]

How about The Schorced Earth by David L. Robbins

[Petra]

I nominate Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz.

[Irene]

I nominate The Pearl that Broke Its Shell
by Nadia Hashini

[Irene]

I nominate
Illuminations: A Novel of Hildegard von Bingen

[Sheila , Supporting Chick]

Great choices so far. Anyone else want to throw something out for consideration? Be brave! We don't bite! And leading a discussion is not a scary as it may sound. :-)

[Irene]

I don't mind leading it if someone wants to nominate a book and you don't want to lead the discussion.

[Irene]

[Irene]

[Irene]

[Sheila , Supporting Chick]

Irene wrote: "I don't mind leading it if someone wants to nominate a book and you don't want to lead the discussion."

That is a very sweet offer, Irene! :-)
So anyone that wants to nominate and is worried about leading, Irene will lead for you. Just mention it when you nominate.

[Irene]

[Irene]

I have a Nook and I get books when on sale. I have about 745 I haven't read yet.

[Irene]

[Irene]

[Irene]

Sheila I will not be offended if you have to eliminate any of the books. I might have nominated too many. ☺

[Sheila , Supporting Chick]

I've eliminated the ones we have already read, and then put us down to an even 10 for voting! :-)

I will get a poll up momentarily.

[Sheila , Supporting Chick]

Okay, poll is up. Follow this link:

https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/1...

to vote for the book you would prefer to read and discuss. Poll will run through April 1st, and we will read and discuss the top two in May and June!

[Daniale]

um.... is anyone else getting the "who is cooler" pool when they follow the link?

[Daniale]

*poll

[Sheila , Supporting Chick]

Hmm, if your device is cutting off the link, and just leaving http.//www.goodreads.com/poll without the rest of it, you will get the Who is Cooler poll, as that is the first poll that was ever created here on Goodreads, but the founders of the website. LOL!

[Sheila , Supporting Chick]

I'm going to try adding the Goodreads official widget info to the next post, to see if I can get the actual poll itself to post in this thread.

[Sheila , Supporting Chick]

Poll

What would you like to read for our May and June regular discussions. We will read the top two vote getters.

The Shoemaker's Wife
The Pearl that Broke Its Shell
The Invention of Wings
Palisades Park
Scorched Earth
Palace Walk
Gone Girl
The Husband's Secret
Beloved
Illuminations: A Novel of Hildegard von Bingen

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[Daniale]

Thanks, Sheila!

[Sheila , Supporting Chick]

Only a couple days left in the vote, and the votes are spread out across the board. If you haven't voted, please vote soon, or if you have voted and would like to consider some other book to read, feel free to change your vote in the next day or two! Again, we will read the top two vote getters, or we will have a run off vote to get winners if needed.

[Sheila , Supporting Chick]

Well we ended up with THREE top vote getters, so our next three Group Reads, for the spring and summer of 2015, will be:

The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd


The Pearl that Broke Its Shell by Nadia Hashimi


and

Beloved by Toni Morrison


I like all these choices, and think they will give us an interesting and varied variety of books to read and discuss!

[Daniale]

Thanks Sheila! Will that be the order? May: Invention of Wings, June: Pearl, July: Beloved?

[Sheila , Supporting Chick]

Invention of Wings got the most votes so we will do it first in May. The other two tied for second place, so we can do them in the order that everyone prefers. :-)

[Daniale]

Sweet, thanks! Library, here I come!

[Jennifer W]

We seem to be an indecisive group of late. :) I may try to join in with Beloved.

[Jayme(theghostreader)]

I haven't read the first two and I read Beloved. I didn't care for Beloved.

[Daniale]

I feel the same way, Jayme. I read Beloved in college and didn't like it. But maybe if I read it now I'll have a different perspective? We'll see. I'll most likely join in the conversation anyway.

[Jayme(theghostreader)]

Maybe I will give it another try.

[Sheila , Supporting Chick]

Jennifer W wrote: "We seem to be an indecisive group of late. :) I may try to join in with Beloved."

I don't mind though, because then it selects several months worth of books so I don't have to keep polling every month! LOL Gives us a nice variety too. :-)

[Irene]

I think it's a good idea to do it this way, too. I will make the schedule for discussion. I will also create different threads for each part of the book.

[Irene]

I'm excited

[Alison]

I'm late to this and can't find what you decided on for fall?

[Sheila , Supporting Chick]

Here is the link to our fall reads thread Alison: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...