Monthly Group Reads: Monthly Group Reads Polls and Voting Showing 51-100 of 1,359

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

It's going to be a good slection to challenge you all. Maybe even take some of you out of comfort zones. :)
Very different stories. No mysteries at all this time.

[Simona]

Terri wrote: "Got 4 good and diverse books lined up for the September Group Read Poll. Dawn and I have spent much time agonising, researching, suggesting, eliminating.
The final four are looking reallllly good. ..."

This is really MEAN, you know? You're lucky I'm at the other part of the world or I'd be knocking at your door, right now!

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

You don't how many times I have had to stop myself from putting the polls up early. :D
It is the 6th here....so one more day...one more day...

[Anne]

Patience is a virtue-LOl-LOL

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

A virtue I am not always good at. :)

[Bobby]

What's virtue mean??? Just give me the damn names of the books to choose from!!!!

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Lol. The natives grow restless tonight. :-)

[Anne]

Bobby wrote: "What's virtue mean??? Just give me the damn names of the books to choose from!!!!"

ROFLMAO, Bobby!

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Polls will go up in the next few hours. So stop heating up the cooking pot and beating your drums, natives. The polls are on their way. :-)

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

I have released the polls!!!!!!!!!! Go forth and vote!!

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

The Ancient books for this month. If you are wondering which to choose. Here's some help.

There was no look inside of Hound on Amazon, but you can read a preview via google books:
http://books.google.com.au/books/abou...

Amazon has the 'look inside' feature for Ship of Rome, so you can read some via that:
http://www.amazon.com/Masters-Sea-Shi...

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

The Medieval books for this month. Again...if you are wondering which to choose. Here's some help.

Amazon has a preview of A bloody Field by Shrewsbury
http://www.amazon.com/Bloody-Field-Sh...

Amazon also has a preview of Enemy Under Colours
http://www.amazon.com/Under-Enemy-Col...

[Bobby]

Once again your choices are fantastically intriguing...I'll probably end up with all four at some time!! Thanks to you ladies for your efforts.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

You're welcome. :) We have a long list (well..actually Dawn is the keeper of the list) that we consult each month.
We toss ideas back and forth. Who's read what, what rates well, what would tempt people to join in the group read, what looks interesting, what eras are popular, what eras haven't we tried before.
And in the end, we spit out four books. :) lol
It takes us about a week to finalise the final four, in the case of last month, it took us a couple weeks. We kept changing our minds.

[Simona]

So thanks to you and Dawn The Keeper! I'll check what one of these books I can find c/o my library.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Dawn the Keeper of the List. :)

Hope you can at least get one of them, Simona!

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Two clear leaders so far in the September Polls.
Still a ways to go though before the polls close. Last month I saw Ratcatcher go from what I thought was a clear winner, to a clear loser overnight.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Only a couple more days! If you haven't voted now is the time! Even if you want to throw away a few votes on one of the nautical themed books in the polls. To give poor Dawn some hope.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Looks like our winners will definitely be these two:


I ordered A Bloody Field by Shrewsbury when we announced the polls, with the intention of reading whether it won the medieval vote or not.
The cover I got is this one.

[Anne]

My library does not have either, so I had to go the ILL route.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

I think a few members might have to track the book/s down through inter library loan. This is why we do the polls so early the month before the group reads start. To allow for ILL. Good luck, Anne.
Both the winning books look like something different for us all:-)

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

I'm calling it. :-)
Those in message 69 are our winners. The polls are open for another day, but I would call it a sure thing that those two are our winners.
I will set up the group Read threads.

[Bobby]

I already have both books!! From a used Amazon site and the other from Amazon!!

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

fantastic!! At least I know someone be with me on these reads if no-one else can source them. :D

[Tasha]

Bobby always comes through. :)

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

I always count on him to come through. He's been reliable since about our third ever group read. :-)

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

It is official. 'Hound' and 'A Bloody Field by Shrewsbury' are the winners of our poll for the September Group Read.
http://www.goodreads.com/poll/list/54...

[Simona]

These days I'm not lucky with my library offer. The only way to participate would be to buy one of these books,probably Hound because I'm not an Ellis Peter fan, but it's something I'd prefere to do for an author that I know and I love (too many times I bought the "wrong" book). So I'll pass, for this time. :(

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Yes, I imagine it is always going to be hard for you to track the group read books down in Italy. :( Which is completely understandable. They can't just carry any old thing. :-)

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Still a few more days to go on the polls for the October Group Read. I suspect these will be our winners though.


My library didn't have either so i have gone ahead and asked them to purchase these two books. If the purchase request is declined they will get them for me via Inter Library Loan.

[Simona]

That would be wonderful, I can have The Skystone!

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

The other one is also available in Italian, Simona. Apparently it has been translated into like 7 languages. Which I thought may be good for those whos first language is not english.

[Simona]

Thank you, Terry!

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

It is official!! These are our winners for October..


Jump onto your library catalogues and your online bookstores and track them down, cause these lovelies will be our two October Group Reads. :-)

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

I have asked my library to buy them in for me and they have agreed to. I hope they can get them to me for the start of the month. *fingers crossed*

[Bryn]

There on my shelves - where they've been for years, unread - I have In a Dark Wood, but of Jack Whyte, 2nd and 3rd in this series, not the 1st. Drat. I'll scout in the secondhand markets and if I luck on that, yup, but I'm in for the other.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

This is your lucky month! And finally an incentive to read Haasse's book.

[Anne]

Terri wrote: "It is official!! These are our winners for October..


Jump onto your library cat..."


As you know, I have read "Skystone." But I checked my library today and they actually have 4 copies of "In a Dark Wood" so I am so pleased. I will put a hold later this month. Yay-no waiting for ILL.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

At last! A book you don't have to ILL, that they also have plenty of copies of.

[Tasha]

I'll be reading this one as my library has it. Looking forward to joining in a group read this month.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Good-o! :-)

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

The November Group Read Polls have been released, fellow history lovers. Go get 'em!!
http://www.goodreads.com/poll/list/54...

[Dawn]

I have, I have! :)

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

haha! I hope you bag yourself a good one. :D

[Dawn]

Me too!! :)

[Simona]

Hi Terri, I was checking if Outlaw was the book I remembered, and look what GR proposed me....

well, fellow members: somehow I DOUBT this is the one Terri choose....;)

[Simona]

(I voted for the Angus Donald one, Terri. I hope you're not disappointed...)

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

I voted for the Angus Donald one too...I hope YOU are not disappointed that it is the Donald Outlaw in the poll and not your accidental discovery. ;)

[Simona]

mmh...maybe just a bit...;)

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Hahaha! :-)