The Perks Of Being A Book Addict discussion

Hi everyone!

It is time to nominate books you would like to read in December! We are going to try something new this month. We have had some difficulty (and complaints about) getting books into the polls. Every month there are too many nominations to include them all and we have been included books that have been seconded by other members. This seems to be a bit confusing for some members and others have had there books left out because they nominated too late to be seconded, so we are going to try something new. I hope this helps!

Please nominate only ONE book. This way people that nominate a little later can still get their books into the poll. You do NOT need someone to second your nomination any more. If you nominate more than one book, only the first one mentioned will be included.

Please do not nominate books that have already been read as a BOTM. If a book is nominated that we have already read, it will not be included in the poll. The books we have already read can be found here: https://www.goodreads.com/group/books...

Please do not nominate books that are the second or later in a series. Although these can be fun to read and discuss, it leaves out many of our book club members. These will not be included in the poll. Instead, if your book is the second or later part of a series, suggest it as a buddy read. You can select the date and still read as a group and discuss without a poll. All you need is one person that would like to read it with you. You can make suggestions here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

And finally, Please do not use this thread for author self-promotion. This is a nomination thread for for books that you would like to read as a member of the group. If you wrote the book, you have already read it. Self-promotions will not be included in the poll. Please feel free to promote your work here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Additional tips - Please use a book link, if possible. If it's not possible, please include the author's name. I want to make sure I include the correct books! You can add a synopsis from the books Goodread's page, if you like, but it is not necessary. Any questions, please let me know!

Almost forgot! - Any genre is allowable for nomination, EXCEPT erotica. We are an all ages club and Goodreads does not allow us to read erotica as a group. Because we do not limit our membership, they could shut the group down. Please make any erotica nominations in an adult only group.

Directions to add a book link:

This can only be done when online and not when using an app.

When typing in the text box, on top of the box there is a link that says "add book/author". Click on that and a new box will appear. Type your book name in the space provided and click on "search". When you see your book, click the "add" button to the right of it.

To add a link that just has the book name, you can click "link" at the bottom of the "add book/author" box. The link is the automatic setting. To add a book cover, click on "cover" at the bottom of the box.

Hope this info helps!

My nomination for December is Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman.



Synopsis:
Under the streets of London there's a place most people could never even dream of. A city of monsters and saints, murderers and angels, knights in armour and pale girls in black velvet. This is the city of the people who have fallen between the cracks.

Richard Mayhew, a young businessman, is going to find out more than enough about this other London. A single act of kindness catapults him out of his workday existence and into a world that is at once eerily familiar and utterly bizarre. And a strange destiny awaits him down here, beneath his native city: Neverwhere.

Shiver

@Kristie: Are we supposed to nominate holiday books for next month? The choices so far seem to be so far away from Christmas.

I will nominate Edenbrooke by Julianna Donaldson.

Natalie wrote: "@Kristie: Are we supposed to nominate holiday books for next month? The choices so far seem to be so far away from Christmas."

Hi Natalie - The nominations do not have to be related to any particular holiday. If you'd like to read something from that genre, you are welcome to nominate it, but it is not a requirement.

I'll nominate something that caught my eye on my "recommendations" list.


The Girl With Glass Feet

Synopsis: Strange things are happening on the remote and snowbound archipelago of St. Hauda’s Land. Magical winged creatures flit around the icy bogland, albino animals hide themselves in the snow-glazed woods, and Ida Maclaird is slowly turning into glass. Ida is an outsider in these parts who has only visited the islands once before. Yet during that one fateful visit the glass transformation began to take hold, and now she has returned in search of a cure.

I will nominate Outlander
Synopsis:
The year is 1945. Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon--when she walks through a standing stone in one of the ancient stone circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach--an "outlander"--in a Scotland torn by war and raiding Highland clans in the year of Our Lord...1743.

I will nominate

I nominate We Are Water by Wally Lamb.

Synopsis:

After 27 years of marriage and three children, Anna Oh—wife, mother, outsider artist—has fallen in love with Viveca, the wealthy Manhattan art dealer who orchestrated her success. They plan to wed in the Oh family’s hometown of Three Rivers in Connecticut. But the wedding provokes some very mixed reactions and opens a Pandora’s Box of toxic secrets—dark and painful truths that have festered below the surface of the Ohs’ lives.We Are Water is a layered portrait of marriage, family, and the inexorable need for understanding and connection, told in the alternating voices of the Ohs—nonconformist, Anna; her ex-husband, Orion, a psychologist; Ariane, the do-gooder daughter, and her twin, Andrew, the rebellious only son; and free-spirited Marissa, the youngest. It is also a portrait of modern America, exploring issues of class, changing social mores, the legacy of racial violence, and the nature of creativity and art.With humor and compassion, Wally Lamb brilliantly captures the essence of human experience and the ways in which we search for love and meaning in our lives.

Jamie wrote: "I will nominate "

I second Water for Elephants

Synopsis: The Kite Runner of Khaled Hosseini's deeply moving fiction debut is an illiterate Afghan boy with an uncanny instinct for predicting exactly where a downed kite will land. Growing up in the city of Kabul in the early 1970s, Hassan was narrator Amir's closest friend even though the loyal 11-year-old with "a face like a Chinese doll" was the son of Amir's father's servant and a member of Afghanistan's despised Hazara minority. But in 1975, on the day of Kabul's annual kite-fighting tournament, something unspeakable happened between the two boys.

Colleen - No need to second anymore. :) Please feel free to nominate a book, if you'd like to.

Bitten

I will nominate Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
This is a book for book lovers. It is an easy read but has so many complex layers. It has a Dan Brown mystery and is set in a little bookstore and the Google community in California. It has just recently came out in paperback, and is a hipsters with belles on type of book!

The Handmaid's Tale

OR releasing nov 11

Hi Tina -

We are only allowing one nomination this month so that all the nominations can be included. Also, we are not allowed to add anything that is considered erotica to our poll for the group to read as this is an all ages group. (Please see the first post for more info.)

I second Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

Hi Andreea - We no longer need to second books, so please feel free to add your own nomination if there is another book you'd like to read.

I nominate Memoirs of a Geisha.

Synopsis: In this literary tour de force, novelist Arthur Golden enters a remote and shimmeringly exotic world. For the protagonist of this peerlessly observant first novel is Sayuri, one of Japan's most celebrated geisha, a woman who is both performer and courtesan, slave and goddess.

We follow Sayuri from her childhood in an impoverished fishing village, where in 1929, she is sold to a representative of a geisha house, who is drawn by the child's unusual blue-grey eyes. From there she is taken to Gion, the pleasure district of Kyoto. She is nine years old. In the years that follow, as she works to pay back the price of her purchase, Sayuri will be schooled in music and dance, learn to apply the geisha's elaborate makeup, wear elaborate kimono, and care for a coiffure so fragile that it requires a special pillow. She will also acquire a magnanimous tutor and a venomous rival. Surviving the intrigues of her trade and the upheavals of war, the resourceful Sayuri is a romantic heroine on the order of Jane Eyre and Scarlett O'Hara. And Memoirs of a Geisha is a triumphant work - suspenseful, and utterly persuasive.

Kristie wrote: "Hi Tina -

We are only allowing one nomination this month so that all the nominations can be included. Also, we are not allowed to add anything that is considered erotica to our poll for the group..."


I have heard pretty good things about this book and I am waiting for my friend to lend it to me to read.

I nominate

by Rainbow Rowell

I nominate Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

Nikki ~KittenNyx~ wrote: "I nominate Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch"

I have that book at home but haven't read it yet! I'm a sucker for anything that involves Neil Gaiman!!

I nominate The Maze Runner by James Dashner

Hi everyone! nominations are over and the poll to vote has been opened! Please vote for your favorite choice here: https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/9...

Our BOTMs for December have been chosen! The winners of our poll were Fangirl and The Maze Runner.



Links for the discussion threads are here:

Fangirl: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

The Maze Runner: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...