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[Jordan]

Does anyone else have a book to nominate? June is tomorrow! *GASP!*

[Johanna]

Shall we make Nicole Kimberling's first Bellingham Mystery Primal Red our June BOM? Jordan suggested the print book The Bellingham Mystery Series, Volume 1 which has the first three novellas in it, but I think it's only available in print. Am I right? (Although I have to add that I absolutely LOVE that cover!)

So what do you think? The Bellingham Mysteries series got support, but would it be easier if we'd choose the first novella of the series instead of the first three?

[Judy]

I'd prefer just the first novella, Primal Red, but it's up to you guys.

[Jordan]

Either way, is fine with me. I'll be reading the first three anyway since I have them in print together, so I'll let you all make the final decision.

[Jordan]

BTW, there is a Kindle boxed set of the first five books for $9.99 if anyone is interested: https://www.amazon.com/Bellingham-Mys...

Otherwise, Primal Red is $4.99 in Kindle by itself: https://www.amazon.com/Primal-Red-Nic...

I don't know about other countries though.

And yes, the edition I have is only available in print, according to Amazon.

[Johanna]

Jordan wrote: "BTW, there is a Kindle boxed set of the first five books for $9.99 if anyone is interested: https://www.amazon.com/Bellingham-Mys......"

Thank you for the links, Jordan!

I'll make Nicole's Primal Red our June BOM, but if there're many of us who manages to read also the other books of the series (any number of them) that's always a bonus, right? It seems that Primal Red is a bit shorter than the books we've recently read (as BOMs), so I'm hoping that more of us have time to read it and to take part in the discussion.

[Jordan]

The more, the merrier, in a book discussion!

[Calathea]

Seeing Johanna starting the discussion of June's BOM (thank you, dear J!): What do you want to read next month? A summer holiday romance maybe? Something that's set in a place where you would like to go for vacation? What do you think?

[Calathea]

Digging up that topic...

Do you guys want to read a BOM in July?

Or maybe you're all on summer vacation and rather take a BOM-break and come back to tell us about what you read on holiday?

Just let me know! :)

[Calathea]

Oh, the new Eli Easton A Second Harvest is supposed to be published on July 1st. How about that one?

[Sabine]

I will read it definitely. I have read Kingdom Come by her and liked it. Now I want to see her approach in this book.

[Jordan]

I'm going to recommend Aftermath by Cara Dee. It looks really good, has a lot of good reviews, and several of us have it marked as "want to read".

[KC]

Sabine wrote: "I will read it definitely. I have read Kingdom Come by her and liked it. Now I want to see her approach in this book."

This is Eli Easton and writing mysteries?

[KC]

Calathea wrote: "Oh, the new Eli Easton A Second Harvest is supposed to be published on July 1st. How about that one?"

I'll read this one for sure, just pre-ordered.

[Calathea]

Sabine wrote: "I will read it definitely. I have read Kingdom Come by her and liked it. Now I want to see her approach in this book."

Um, is this the correct link? I see Kingdom Come by Jane Jensen. Same title maybe?

[Calathea]

We can leave this until the 1st, right, to see if we get more/other suggestions? The one Jordan mentions sounds good too. Ha! I have it on my lists already. :D

[Sabine]

Yes, Eli Easton is a pseudonym and Jane Jensen is another one or her real name.
http://elieaston.com/about/

[Calathea]

Sabine wrote: "Yes, Eli Easton is a pseudonym and Jane Jensen is another one or her real name.
http://elieaston.com/about/"

Ah, I didn't know that. :)
Cool, more things to read.

[Jordan]

I guess we should start a poll today?

Just in case Eli Easton is chosen, I asked the library to purchase the ebook for me! I didn't realize it, but the library already owns a lot of Eli's titles. Cool.

[KC]

Jordan wrote: "I guess we should start a poll today?

Just in case Eli Easton is chosen, I asked the library to purchase the ebook for me! I didn't realize it, but the library already owns a lot of Eli's titles. ..."

Cool! :-)

[Jordan]

Mymymble wrote: "Jordan wrote: "I guess we should start a poll today?

Just in case Eli Easton is chosen, I asked the library to purchase the ebook for me! I didn't realize it, but the library already owns a lot of..."

What do you mean you're not one of us? Of course you are! As long as you're a member of Josh's GR group you're invited to read and discuss our BOMs!

Yes, I'm secretly (or not so secretly, maybe) hoping for Aftermath since it looks good and I already own it, but A Second Harvest looks good too. I've not read anything by Eli before.

[Calathea]

Jordan wrote: "I guess we should start a poll today?

Just in case Eli Easton is chosen, I asked the library to purchase the ebook for me! I didn't realize it, but the library already owns a lot of Eli's titles. ..."

Hey, so I set up a very short timed poll for this BOM. It runs through Sunday. It's anonymous and results are shown after it ended.

Go and vote for BOM here: https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/1...

[Calathea]

Mymymble wrote: "Jordan wrote: "I guess we should start a poll today?

Just in case Eli Easton is chosen, I asked the library to purchase the ebook for me! I didn't realize it, but the library already owns a lot of..."

What Jordan said. Come and join us in discusding books. We're always happy to have new participants come in and give us fresh insight and a new point of view. :)

You're also very much welcom to make suggestions on what to read the next month. Usually when we have several candidate books with at least another supporter we'll have a poll.

[Sara]

I already have Aftermath on my kindle so I should vote for that one. It's no good having these books if I'm not going to read them!

[Jordan]

That was my thinking too!

[Jordan]

But, it looks like A Second Harvest won by one vote! That was a close one folks!

[Jordan]

But, it looks like A Second Harvest won by one vote! That was a close one folks!

[Sara]

Jordan wrote: "That was my thinking too!"

:D

[Jordan]

Bad news for our Grant Challenge (but not that bad, really), I just noticed that the 6th book in the series isn't coming out until the beginning of January 2017 now. As our challenge finishes up at the end of December, maybe we can change that to finish up at the end of January? If the new publication date doesn't get pushed back further, it seems rather silly to finish the challenge less than a week before the new book comes out. Thoughts?

[Calathea]

I'm sorry I dropped off the earth and left you hanging with the BOM poll. The flu got me. Again. After I had the damn thing for most of June already. *sigh*

Okay, so... as you found out already A Second Harvest won with 5 votes to 4 for BOM of July.

Discussion will start (if we keep to the old plan) on 23rd July. Let's read some! :)

[Calathea]

And please welcome dear Jordan as our new BOM captain!

I'm so happy she said yes when I asked her if she wanted to take over! I'm sure she will make this little segment of our group a success. :)

[Antonella]

Get well soon, dear Calathea!

And congratulations to Jordan!

[Calathea]

Antonella wrote: "Get well soon, dear Calathea!

And congratulations to Jordan!"

Thank you, dear! At least I'm back on the internet. ;)

[Sabine]

Calathea wrote: "I'm sorry I dropped off the earth and left you hanging with the BOM poll. The flu got me. Again. After I had the damn thing for most of June already. *sigh*

Okay, so... as you found out already [b..."

That's not good! Feel better very soon Calathea, I think of you!

[Sara]

Feel better soon, Calathea!

Congrats, Jordan. I'm sure you'll keep the book discussions well on course :)

[Karen]

Jordan wrote: "Bad news for our Grant Challenge (but not that bad, really), I just noticed that the 6th book in the series isn't coming out until the beginning of January 2017 now. As our challenge finishes up at..."

Yes, extending the end date to at least January 31 makes sense.

[Jordan]

Calathea wrote: "And please welcome dear Jordan as our new BOM captain!

I'm so happy she said yes when I asked her if she wanted to take over! I'm sure she will make this little segment of our group a success. :)

"

Thanks Calathea! Feel better soon!

[Jordan]

Thanks guys, I'm crossing my fingers I don't botch this up. But we're a great group of people, so I'm pretty sure this will be boat loads of fun. uh oh. See what I did there? Yeah, I have a terrible sense of humor. I'll apologize in advance for anything I may say in the future that's not actually funny. lol.

[Jordan]

Karen wrote: "Jordan wrote: "Bad news for our Grant Challenge (but not that bad, really), I just noticed that the 6th book in the series isn't coming out until the beginning of January 2017 now. As our challenge..."

Great! How does everyone else feel about the challenge date getting changed to January 31st?

[Jordan]

I do want to state that as of right now I see no reason to change the way we've been doing things. So yes, we'll start the discussion on the 23rd, and I'll also start nominations for August that same day. Of course, if people have nominations for August before the 23rd, please feel free to post them! If someone seconds a nomination it will get added to the poll, which will go up the 29th-31st at midnight, so we'll know the August BOM on the 1st of the month. (How does that sound?)

That said, if anyone has any new ideas on the way we do things feel free to share them too.

I'm assuming people find discussion questions helpful. If you do, I'll make sure to post some for our discussions. :-)

Any other thoughts, comments, questions, post away!

[Jordan]

Hi all,

So, it's that time again. Next month starts in just over a week! I know. Crazy. Where did July go?

Anyway, it's time to start nominations for our August BOM. Rules for this haven't changed. Nominate a book and if it gets seconded, then it will go in a poll on Friday. I'll announce the August BOM on the 1st of the month. Hopefully this works for everyone!

Since Aftermath had some votes last month, I'm going to nominate it one more time for August.

Does anyone else have another nomination? Let us know by Friday!

[Antonella]

I suggest , to honour Alexis' RITA Award.

[Jordan]

If someone else seconds For Real by Friday, then it can go to vote.

[Sabine]

Jordan wrote: "If someone else seconds For Real by Friday, then it can go to vote."

I second For Real.

[Jordan]

This is a last reminder for folks to get their nominations in and seconded. The poll will go live tomorrow (Friday) and will be up until the end of the 31st. Results will go live on the 1st of the month.

[Antonella]

You are very efficient, dear Jordan!

In the meantime I finished to reread For Real. I wanted to add - for people having doubts - that I'm not into BDSM and this is really not heavy stuff.

Anyway if we don't go for it next month we can read it the following month ;-).

[Johanna]

Jordan wrote: "This is a last reminder for folks to get their nominations in and seconded. The poll will go live tomorrow (Friday) and will be up until the end of the 31st. Results will go live on the 1st of the ..."

Thank you so much being in charge here, dear Jordan! You rock!

[Jordan]

Antonella wrote: "You are very efficient, dear Jordan!

In the meantime I finished to reread For Real. I wanted to add - for people having doubts - that I'm not into BDSM and this is really not heavy..."

lol, I simply set up a to-do project list for the BOM on my Todoist app to remind me when things are do. Piece of cake!

[Jordan]

Johanna wrote: "Jordan wrote: "This is a last reminder for folks to get their nominations in and seconded. The poll will go live tomorrow (Friday) and will be up until the end of the 31st. Results will go live on ..."

:-) You're welcome!

Also, this is lots of fun!

[Jordan]

OK! The poll for the August BOM is now live!

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