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 Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2015 11:08 am
This is where you can leave suggestions for books and book series' to read. Just a quick reminder, no Young Adult/Children's Books and no Fifty Shades.
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Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2015 11:13 am
Suggested Books:
arrow The Keeper (D.I. Corrigan 2) - Luke Delaney
arrow The Pearl Diver : A Novel - Jeff Talarigo
arrow Me Before You - Jojo Moyes
arrow The Dark Tower 2: The Drawing of the Three - Stephen King
arrow Summers at Castle Auburn - Sharon Shinn
arrow My Sister's Keeper - Jodi Picoult
arrow Deerskin - Robin Mckinley
arrow The Fairy Godmother - Mercedes Lackey
arrow Jenna Starborn - Sharon Shinn
arrow Codex Alera - Jim Butcher
arrow Steal the Dragon - Patricia Briggs
arrow Kushiel's Justice (Imriel Trilogy #2) - Jacqueline Carey
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Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2015 11:14 am
Read Books:
exclaim Title by Author - Month/Year*
exclaim Frankenstein by Mary Shelley - Nov 2015
exclaim Carrie by Stephen King - Dec 2015
exclaim Swann's Way by Marcel Proust - Jan 2016
exclaim Cold Killing by Luke Delaney - Feb 2016
exclaim Insomnia by Stephen King - Mar 2016
exclaim Kushiel's Dart; Phedre Trilogy #1 by Jacqueline Carey - Apr 2016
exclaim Kushiel's Dart; Phedre Trilogy #2 by Jacqueline Carey - May 2016
exclaim Kushiel's Avatar (Phedre Trilogy #3) by Jacqueline Carey - Jun 2016
exclaim Julian by Gore Vidal - Jul & Aug 2016
exclaim Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden - Sept 2016
exclaim The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger by Stephen King - Oct 2016
exclaim The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne - Nov-Dec 2016
exclaim Kushiel's Scion (Imriel Trilogy #1) by Jacqueline Carey - Jan 2017
exclaim The Red Tent by Anita Diamant - Feb 2017
exclaim The Martian by Andy Weir Mar-Apr 2017
exclaim The Name in the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss May 2017
exclaim TBA June 2017
exclaim TBA July 2017
exclaim TBA August 2017
*The month and year of the book's reading links to the Group Discussion Thread for the book. These threads are never locked, and at any time members can add in their opinions and start up more conversation on the story.
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Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2015 6:04 am
Well, there's a book I intend to read next month anyway, so I might as well share it with you if you guys are interested. I'd like to suggest Swann's Way, by Marcel Proust. It is the first book of In Search of Lost Time. Apparently, it's a difficult read, but if you guys want to delve into a French classic, I'd love to discuss it with you.
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FindingJackie Vice Captain
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Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2015 7:20 am
Carrie by Stephen King. I'm interested to see if he has changed over the years as Carrie was his first book.
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Posted: Sun Dec 20, 2015 4:22 pm
Shall we start the vote soon for January's read?
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FindingJackie Vice Captain
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Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2016 10:35 am
Feel free to suggest something at any time guys, I like adding stuff to the list.
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Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2016 1:06 pm
I want to make the suggestion to read The Martian by Andy Weir now the movie adaption won few awards.
It might not fancy to some peoples reading tastes. If you seen the movie or haven't seen it yet, and want to. I highly recommend to read the book. The movie left out crucial and minor details that may puzzle some viewers (I been asked questions cause the movie never explained certain things). The book is generally entertaining period lol, and yes it can be boring.
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FindingJackie Vice Captain
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Posted: Fri Jan 29, 2016 9:58 am
Considering people's reaction to Swann's Way, can you remove the sequel from the suggestions please? I'll read it on my own. It will make a slightly smaller poll for next month. Also I wonder if we should pick some kind of way to thin out the poll once in a while, so we don't end up with 12 suggestions at some point. Maybe something like if a book receives no votes in four months, it's taken off the list until someone suggests it again?
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Posted: Fri Jan 29, 2016 11:00 am
FindingJackie Considering people's reaction to Swann's Way, can you remove the sequel from the suggestions please? I'll read it on my own. It will make a slightly smaller poll for next month. Also I wonder if we should pick some kind of way to thin out the poll once in a while, so we don't end up with 12 suggestions at some point. Maybe something like if a book receives no votes in four months, it's taken off the list until someone suggests it again? I removed the book from the list. And it wouldn't be too hard to keep track of that, I'm sure I can manage keeping the list fairly small that way.
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Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2016 11:49 pm
The list is beginning to dwindle.
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Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2016 6:47 pm
Tommy Dionysus The list is beginning to dwindle. Ahah, it is indeed. But considering these are all books I'd love to read, 2 of which I already own, I held back a little on the suggestions. I'll be adding some more soon. wink
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FindingJackie Vice Captain
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Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2016 1:06 pm
How about Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden or Me Before You by Jojo Moyes?
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Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2016 8:38 pm
Chemikalische How about Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden or Me Before You by Jojo Moyes? I loooove Memoirs of a Geisha.
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Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2016 8:47 pm
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant Her name is Dinah. In the Bible, her life is only hinted at in a brief and violent detour within the more familiar chapters of the Book of Genesis that are about her father, Jacob, and his dozen sons. Told in Dinah's voice, this novel reveals the traditions and turmoils of ancient womanhood--the world of the red tent. It begins with the story of her mothers--Leah, Rachel, Zilpah, and Bilhah--the four wives of Jacob. They love Dinah and give her gifts that sustain her through a hard-working youth, a calling to midwifery, and a new home in a foreign land. Dinah's story reaches out from a remarkable period of early history and creates an intimate connection with the past. Deeply affecting, The Red Tent combines rich storytelling with a valuable achievement in modern fiction: a new view of biblical women's society.  The pearl diver : a novel by Jeff Talarigo This unusual debut novel set in 1940s postwar Japan renders brutality and intolerance in quiet, lyrical prose. When a 19-year-old pearl diver, the youngest of a crew working the Seto Inland Sea, discovers she is sick with leprosy, she is banished to Nagashima, an island leprosarium, where she is told to change her name and forget her past. Nagashima is its own kind of civilization, where the renamed "Miss Fuji" must care for the sicker patients, which includes helping the island doctors perform forced, often late-term abortions. Treated with drugs that make her isolation unnecessary, Miss Fuji remains healthy ("she has only the two spots on her body.... Medals or curses, she isn't sure how to wear them"), but she is still not permitted to leave and remains a captive for most of her life. Drawing from actual medical history, Talarigo succeeds in telling a compelling story whose strength is its elegant simplicity. (Publishers Weekly)
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