June Group Reads ARE......

[sheila]

Let me try this again:
Cat1: Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser

[sheila]

Lori wrote: "Sheila, Bridgit got the nomination in before you. Could you please edit your post to show a something else? No need to waste your nomination...."

I did another nomination.. thanks

[Kathy]

Cat1:Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Cat2:East of Eden

[Lori Ann]

Kathy- East of Eden has already been a group read and each person is limited to one nomination and I believe must include the author as well as title. Extremely Loud is great book tho so just edit your post :)

[[deleted user]]

Beautiful creatures

[JSou]

I think Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close was also a previous group read.

[Lori, Super Mod]

Yup, they were both previous group reads.

Kathy, try again.

[Courtney]

The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald

[Donna]

When do we vote? Monday?

[Rosalie]

I will nominate WHISTLING IN THE Dark by Lesley Kagen as a book in Cat I. Whistling In the Dark

[Lori Ann]

If my favorite (Persuasion) wasn't nominated for cat 2 I would have an extremely hard time deciding which book to vote for. I'm excited see which one wins!

[Matthew]

How about Crazy Heart by Thomas Cobb. Supposed to be a good read...

[Matthew]

Sorry...let's try this again...
Cat 1: Crazy Heart by Thomas Cobb

Ok...there we go.

[Charity]

Cat. 1: Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky

[Kaion]

I generally prefer doing group reads of books I haven't yet perused... but damn it Charity, how can you make a nomination I'm more tempted to go for than my own?

[Charity]

:)

Sorry, Kaion...but, I do soooo understand that feeling. Seems to happen to me almost every nomination round. Everyone has just such good taste!

[Lori, Super Mod]

Oppps! I forgot to cut the nominations last nite.
I'm closing them now, and will have the polls up later tonight.

Thanks for the great choices everyone.

[Lori, Super Mod]

Heres what we will be voting on once I get the polls up:

Cat1
Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami
The Beekeeper's Apprentice - Laurie R. King
Stitches - David Small
The Russian Concubine - Kate Furnivall
The Girl Who Fell From the Sky - Heidi W. Durrow
Catfish and Mandala - Andrew X. Pham
The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank
The Lonely Polygamist - Brady Udall
Blonde - Joyce Carol Oates
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter - Seth Grahame-Smith
The Red Tent - Anita Diamant
Horns - Joe Hill
Everything Is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
Fast Food Nation - Eric Schlosser
WHISTLING IN THE Dark - Lesley Kagen
Crazy Heart - Thomas Cobb
Suite Française - Irène Némirovsky


Cat 2
The Quiet American - Graham Greene
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
Persuasion - Jane Austen
The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
Middlemarch - George Eliot
The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
The Name of the Rose: Including Postscript - Umberto Eco
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
Little Dorrit - Charles Dickens
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Don Quixote - de Cervantes

[Lori, Super Mod]

Polls are open!!! Go and vote.
remember... one vote per person per poll.

May the best books win!

[Dionisia]

I'm excited to see what books end up on top!

[Petra]

The votes are close. Fingers crossed for Pride & Prejudice......although I do want to read The Count one day.....

[Lori, Super Mod]

Petra, the polls are not closed yet. They should still be opened.. through the 26th.

[Petra]

Oops, sorry, Everyone....I didn't mean "closed" but that the results were close. Sorry.

[Sasha]

Suspense: killing me! So many great choices. You people have nominated some really cool books.

[Lori, Super Mod]

oh haaa... Cross 'em hard!

[Jayme]

The classics list looks awesome this month! Can't say that the second list is doing much for me though. If Everything is Illuminated gets bumped up a few by tomorrow that'd be good, but otherwise, it's a big meh for me.

[Susanna]

Tie breaker poll for Classics?

[Donna]

Uh Oh!

[Petra]

Doesn't anyone want to break that Classics tie? I would if I could but I've already voted for one of them.

[JSou]

I might. It looks like Crime & Punishment won't make it, so I'll probably change my vote, even though I've already read them both!

[Kaion]

I would've Petra, except I've read and "meh"ed on both.

[JSou]

Wait...can we still change our vote? Weren't we able to do that before? Where did the 'change your vote' thing go? Am I just not seeing it?

Can I stop asking so many questions?

Obviously not.

[JSou]

Thanks, Fiona. I thought I was going crazy for a second. Just didn't realize the polls were closed! : )

[Sasha]

I was one of the pathetic four who voted for Don Quixote. I always lose so badly. Woe is me.

[Sasha]

Frankly, I'd be totally happy to read either of the top two choices. (Re-read, in Jane's case.)

[Lori, Super Mod]

Sorry guys, was at the BEA and just got settled back in.
The winners are---

Reg Fiction: THE RED TENT

Classics: PRIDE AND PREJUDICE vs THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO

It's ok that we have a tie. I think we have had quite a lengthy discussion on it here under "Wanna Discuss" so I will just move that discussion into the group read folder and anyone who wants to read it can, as there will be enough of us who HAVE read it to carry on a discussion with :)

Hooray for JUNES WINNERS

[Lori, Super Mod]

Folders for discussion will open June 1st, as will the discussion folder for the winners of TNBBC's blog contest for MAP OF TRUE PLACES.

[Patricia]

I've had The Red Tent for over two years on my bookshelf waiting to be read. I just went to the library and checked out five books, I better get offline and start reading!!! I swear I'll sit here online off and on each day and I could have sooooo many more books read. But I like it here LOL! And how else would I know what to read? Heh, I can always return the library books and check them out another time, right?

[Katie]

Cool, I finished The Red Tent, like yesterday. Really! I finished it back-to-back with The Handmaid's Tale.

I'm now burned out on menstrual cycles, having not had one since I was 36, or 1996, due to a happy hysterectomy. However, I'm looking forward to the discussion.

[Sasha]

Whew. Yeah, I feel you Katie, I'm totally burned out on menstrual cycles too.

[Susanna - Censored by GoodReads]

Thirty years of insane ones were enough for me...