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[[deleted user]]

I'm looking at Steel Sleet from Josh's list. I could go for it only if for it's being sci-fi with promises of smut and violence

[Merith]

Suhi wrote: "I'm looking at Steel Sleet from Josh's list. I could go for it only if for it's being sci-fi with promises of smut and violence"


Not sure about this one... it's shortish (87 pages) and part 1 of 3 parts (so far). Not sure if we'd get a successful conclusion or be left hanging for book 2.

[Merith]

Taking a leaf from Anna's book, I'm going to nominate 3 stories as well.

Ariel Tachna's The Inventor's Companion, a nice long read

M. L. Rhodes' Falling

Libby Drew's State of Mind (the Good Reads link shows it as a paperback, but DreamSpinner has it in ebook as well)

[Mariana]

My suggestions:

Fugly, KZ Snow
The Manituw, Lisbeth Jenkins
Breathe, Sloan Parker

[Yvonne]

So is that it, or can we still add books to vote on? If we can still vote, I'd like to add two more choices:

Three Wrong Turns in the Desert, Neil Plakcy

Lessons in Love, Charlie Cochrane

[[deleted user]]

I'll second Breath by Sloan Parker since I've read it recently :)

[Susan]

Yvonne wrote: "So is that it, or can we still add books to vote on? If we can still vote, I'd like to add two more choices:

Three Wrong Turns in the Desert, Neil Plakcy

Lessons in Love, Charlie Cochrane"

I second Three Wrong Turns in the Desert.

[Cleon Lee]

I also second Three Wrong Turns in the Desert.

[Jordan]

I'll second the Inventor's Companion. That looked like an interesting read.

[Charming]

JOsh is going to need instant runoff voting at this rate.

[Jordan]

lol, I'm bored so I just tallied things up to see where we stand. Nothing's been seconded by more than one or two people, and a lot HAS been seconded:
1. Take My Picture - Giselle Ellis
2. The Inventor's Companion - Ariel Tachna
3. State of Mind - Libby Drew
4. Fugly - K.Z. Snow
5. Breathe - Sloan Parker
6. Three Wrong Turns In The Desert - Neil Plakcy

And there were seven others that did NOT get seconded:
1. The Path To Forever - Etienne
2. Mahu - Neil Plakcy
3. False Colors - Alex Beecroft
4. Steel Sleet - Eric Del Carlo (This might be good when the whole series comes out, so we can get one good long read out of it since the first is so short.)
5. Falling - M.L. Rhodes
6. The Manituw - Lisbeth Jenkins
7. Lessons in Love - Charlie Cochrane

Well, I hope this helps... or something. At least I wasn't bored for a few minutes! lol.

[Merith]

Anna wrote: "lol, I'm bored so I just tallied things up to see where we stand. Nothing's been seconded by more than one or two people, and a lot HAS been seconded:
1. Take My Picture - Giselle Ellis
2. The In..."

I've read Fugly, and enjoyed it so when I say - maybe this book doesn't fit the parameters of the book of the month it isn't based on not liking it. Fugly is part of a large series (Jackson Spry), is loosely connected to the MC of that series. Fugly's main story can be read without reading the other books of the series, but I think the bigger picture is lost if you haven't read the other books.

I can second Lessons in Love (because I absolutely adore Jonty and Orlando) and I'll also second The Path to Forever.

[Jordan]

I don't know where the term came about, whether it was actually on the tv show, or through fans, but every time I read the title "Fugly" I think of Gil Grissom's straw hat on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. It became known as his Fugly Straw Hat in many fanfic stories, and is always good for a laugh cause it did look pretty stupid even if it was useful. And that's totally off topic, I know, but I just had to say that.

[Tamela]

I'll second Breathe, or rather third :). It made me a Sloan Parker fan!!

[Jordan]

Lil' Grogan wrote: "Anna wrote: "I don't know where the term came about, whether it was actually on the tv show, or through fans, but every time I read the title "Fugly" I think of Gil Grissom's straw hat on CSI: Crim..."

lol, yeah, he did sorta look cute. *sigh* I miss him.

[Josh]

I'll second Three Wrong Turns. I guess I can't second more than one right? Or do we have parlimentary procedure for this? :-D

Anyway, I'm for sure going to read Breathe, Three Wrong Turns, Steel Sleet and Lessons in Love, so all of those will work for me.

[Fehu]

Hi, I'm new but I would also second Three Wrong Turns, since I liked it quite a lot. Libby Drew is one of the authors I want to try so State of my Mind is my second vote.

[Sharon]

Warrior's Cross

I would like to throw this one into the race .

[[deleted user]]

I've had the Cambridge Fellows books in my "I need to get to these" list for awhile, would love to read and chat about 'Lessons in Love'...

[Merith]

I think one of the problems with such an open nomination process is - there's just too many GOOD books to read! :D Not really a problem, but so hard to narrow down to one.

I've read quite a few that have been nominated so far, but I'm game for just about anything.

[Josh]

I know! Well, some of these I'm going to read anyway so hopefully we'll get to discuss even if not in a formal discussion.

[Lori K]

I'm reading the Donald Strachey series right now. They are not romances actually but still fun mysteries with a gay lead. How about those?

[Merith]

Josh wrote: "I know! Well, some of these I'm going to read anyway so hopefully we'll get to discuss even if not in a formal discussion."

Sounds good to me!

[Josh]

I do enjoy those -- and recommend them! I've read them all, though.

[Lori K]

I'm only on Ice Blues right now. Really enjoying them.

[Josh]

Lori K wrote: "I'm only on Ice Blues right now. Really enjoying them."

That one is my favorite, I think. :-D I remember laughing hard at it. But he does a good job with the mysteries and the cases. They're classic PI novels. But so funny.

[Lori K]

I'm going through mystery withdrawal, I wonder why??? Josh...Can't wait for CUTYS!

[Lori K]

Ha, I even re-read all the AE's, FG, Editor...maybe I'll go back thru your entire list.

[Cleon Lee]

I'm going through mystery withdrawal,

Amuse Bouche is free on Wowio.com the last time I checked. I am looking forward to read it.

[[deleted user]]

I'm always in for Donald Strachey :)

[Lori K]

Cleon wrote: "I'm going through mystery withdrawal,

Amuse Bouche is free on Wowio.com the last time I checked. I am looking forward to read it."

We should put it up for nomination. (I'm going to finish this Strachey series then start Amuse Bouche-(after watching the DS movies-am looking forward to Chad Allen's grin...:)

[[deleted user]]

Lori, there's an audiobook of one of DS, it's book 9th, Death Vows. I can't wait to get to it already, but I need to read 6th, 7th and 8th first...

[Lori K]

Suhi wrote: "Lori, there's an audiobook of one of DS, it's book 9th, Death Vows. I can't wait to get to it already, but I need to read 6th, 7th and 8th first..."

Really? at audible? I'll go get it, Thanks Suhi!

just checked, it's $17.50 at audible and $6.95 at itunes. audible is going to go out of business at this rate. I'm going to UN-hijack this thread now... :)

[Josh]

Okay. So. I put up another poll -- I tried to list the *first* five books that received the required two "seconds" for their nomination. But I could have missed a title or got one wrong -- if I did, we'll put any missed title automatically into June's poll.

Lots and lots of great selections being thrown into the hat. What I'd suggest is that we try to nominate books that we haven't read yet -- just because I think it's more fun if we're all discovering them together.

Of course if you've already read the book, there's no reason you can't join the discussion! But if you've already read a book and you want to try to discuss it, we do have the what are you reading now section.

Or am I overcomplicating this with rules?

I don't know. Anyway, the new poll is up for the May read. We have till next weekend to vote.

[Jordan]

Josh, I'd say that makes sense. At least it does for me. Not nominating books you've already read, I mean. ... ok, off to the poll for me! yay!

[Cleon Lee]

I know it sounds stupid, but... how do you vote in a poll? Sorry, newbie here. :D

[Barb]

That's 2 of us :) I just picked the cover... And it seemed to accept that; now we wait til the results :)

[Cleon Lee]

Never mind, I voted. lol.

[[deleted user]]

Josh wrote: "Or am I overcomplicating this with rules? ..."
I think you are :) Does it really make any difference? Especially when the choice of the new books isn't ... very appealing (to me)

[Barb]

ouch :(

[Barb]

i have been wanting to read Sloane (keep calling her Ranger !) so that is who i went for ... am i allowed to declare my vote? just did i guess!

[Josh]

Here's the poll. You just click on the selection you'd like to read next month.

http://www.goodreads.com/poll/list/34...

[Josh]

Suhi wrote: "Josh wrote: "Or am I overcomplicating this with rules? ..."
I think you are :) Does it really make any difference? Especially when the choice of the new books isn't ... very appealing (to me)"

The problem is if I don't limit the number of possibilities we end up with seven books with two votes each and a three-way tie. Or more titles with one vote each. I'm trying to give us a number of selections of books that more than one person wants to read.

What was your selection, Suhi? Maybe we could work it into next month's poll?

[Cleon Lee]

What if we take turns suggesting books to read. Each person can suggest up to 3 books and then we make a poll? Eg, Josh suggests books for May, ns suggests books for June, Jordan for July, etc?

[Susan]

Taking turns is even more complicated. Just let the members nominate a book and let others second it. Then, from the list of possibles, Josh will be the one to decide which books, and how many of them, get onto each month's poll. He makes the final decisions when each poll is created.

[Jordan]

Oddly enough, the book I'd seconded wasn't on the poll, but I found another one that was that looks really good that I must have missed before, so I'm hoping it gets picked. The others, I'm not so crazy about, but we'll see.

If you've read Zero at the Bone, State of Mind seems to be somewhat similar, so I went with State of Mind. There, I'm declaring my choice, though I probably shouldn't.

[[deleted user]]

Josh wrote: "The problem is if I don't limit the number of possibilities we end up with seven books with two votes each and a three-way tie. Or more titles with one vote each. I'm trying to give us a number of selections of books that more than one person wants to read.

What was your selection, Suhi? Maybe we could work it into next month's poll? ..."

Sure, I understand the problem. I didn't mean we should have endless selection of books, not at all... I thought that we should be allowed to suggest not only new books which noone have read but also titles which people would like to discuss because they read and loved (or hated) them.
Maybe we can solve the matter by letting you choose (randomly or otherwise) 3 titles from those with two or more votes?

By "selection" you mean the book I suggested? It was

Actually I'd like to un-suggest it - I've bought, read and dropped the book half-way :D Though I wouldn't mind ranting about it if it gets selected as a month's read XD
I voted for "Breathe" by Sloan Parker since I've read it recently and no other option grabbed my interest.

[JPerceval]

Wahey, for once I logged in at a time to be able to vote for the monthly book!

[Yvonne]

I read a very long excerpt of Breathe a while ago & I remember it being just a little too melodramatic for me. Oh well, you can't please everyone. At least it's readable. But I'm definitely voting for something else.

By the way, Amazon provides free excerpts, in some cases 2 or more chapters long, for almost all their kindle books. If you're not sure of the books up for a vote you should read an excerpt or a sample. It helps.

[Emanuela ~plastic duck~]

I think reading excerpts is the smart thing to do, but I'm reckless and I like blind dates with books :)