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| Neil Gaiman's Graveyard Book |
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| Laurell K. Hamilton's Nightseer |
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[ 7 ] |
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| Total Votes : 22 |
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 Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 12:12 pm
Hi everyone,
Well this is the first book of the month club thread. Please bear with me as this is my first time hosting this kind of thing.
Anyway I've put five genre's up for vote and I'll leave them there for 7 days. Once we have a genre everybody gets to nominate one book and then there'll be a poll to pick the book we read.
I was thinking of taking a week or two to read the book and then discuss it afterwards.
If anybody has any things that they think should be done different please say so. If the genre you wanted to see isn't on the list tell me and I'll put it on the list next month.
Contents
Rules
Genre and Book of the Month
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Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 12:13 pm
Rules -Follow the TOS -No being rude to others -ONE book nomination per person -The genre selected for the current month is excluded from next months vote
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Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 12:14 pm
Genre and Book of the Month September's genre: Fantasy (Can't be picked next month.) September's book: Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
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Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 12:15 pm
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Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 12:16 pm
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Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 1:12 pm
If you voted in the poll could you please post to say if you'll be taking part in the club this month?
I'd like to know who's going to be joining in. 3nodding
Also I added a new rule. I figured it'd be a good idea to exclude the genre that gets picked from next months poll.
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Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 1:37 pm
I voted in the poll, for fantasy. And I'll be taking part in the club this month if I manage to find the book of the month. 3nodding
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Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 2:55 pm
I too voted and will be joining in.
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Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 2:42 pm
I recently joined, so was unable to vote, but if I can get my hands on the chosen book (and assuming you'll have me) I'm in.
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Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 9:16 am
Of course we'll have you. 3nodding
So looks like this months genre is fantasy. So this is the point where everybody gets to suggest a book to read. Try not to make it to obscure a book. It's no fun if nobody can find it. razz
I won't suggest anything. There should be at least one person who doesn't vote on their own book. wink
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Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 8:21 pm
I haven't read this book but it caught my eye, besides the fact that it's written by Neil Gaiman: heart The Graveyard Book. Here's a review: Quote: Amazon.com ReviewIn The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman has created a charming allegory of childhood. Although the book opens with a scary scene--a family is stabbed to death by "a man named Jack” --the story quickly moves into more child-friendly storytelling. The sole survivor of the attack--an 18-month-old baby--escapes his crib and his house, and toddles to a nearby graveyard. Quickly recognizing that the baby is orphaned, the graveyard's ghostly residents adopt him, name him Nobody ("Bod"), and allow him to live in their tomb. Taking inspiration from Kipling’s The Jungle Book, Gaiman describes how the toddler navigates among the headstones, asking a lot of questions and picking up the tricks of the living and the dead. In serial-like episodes, the story follows Bod's progress as he grows from baby to teen, learning life’s lessons amid a cadre of the long-dead, ghouls, witches, intermittent human interlopers. A pallid, nocturnal guardian named Silas ensures that Bod receives food, books, and anything else he might need from the human world. Whenever the boy strays from his usual play among the headstones, he finds new dangers, learns his limitations and strengths, and acquires the skills he needs to survive within the confines of the graveyard and in wider world beyond. (ages 10 and up) -–Heidi Broadhead
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Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 12:01 pm
I've actually read that book and it's pretty good.
First nomination: Neil Gaiman's Graveyard Book
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Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 2:59 pm
Nightseer by Laurell K. Hamilton
The author is best known for her Anita Blake and Meridith Gentry series, but this book was written before those series and is a completely separate story. To be honest I've owned it for a year now and still haven't read it.
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Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 6:18 pm
I like the Laurell K. Hamilton book. I haven't read it yet, but I know my library has it, so it would be no problem to get. I'll definitely partipate if I can get the book.
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Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 10:50 pm
Hmm, from the looks of it my library doesn't have that book, but I'll see if I can't dig it up somewhere if it gets picked.
Second nomination: Laurell K. Hamilton's Nightseer
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