All About Books discussion

It's time to nominate your choice for our March 2020 group fiction read - please use this thread to nominate.

Nominations start today and will close on 12th February.

During this time anybody can nominate and second one book each. You cannot second the book you have nominated. The 6 books with the most second votes at the end of the 7 day nomination period will go into the poll. There are no limits to the number of seconds a book can receive.

The poll will then run until the 20th February and the winner will be announced shortly after. I hope this will leave everybody with enough time to obtain the chosen book.

Please also check that your chosen nomination hasn't been a group read in the past. You can do this by looking at the group bookshelf, contact one of the moderators or post on 'Ask the Moderators' thread

If you have any questions on the nominations process please contact me, use the 'Ask the Moderators' thread or post on here and we will be happy to help

I nominate The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera.

Nidhi wrote: "I nominate The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera."

Sorry Nidhi, I cannot accept this nomination as that book has already a group read

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

I nominate The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes

Sorry i didn't check previously read books list.
Then i nominate The Dutch House by Ann Patchett.

I nominate Christmas Eve at Friday Harbor

I'll nominate The Way of All Flesh a mystery set in Victorian Edinburgh by Ambrose Parry ( actually Scots noir writer Christopher Brookmyre writing with his wife, Marisa Haetzman, who is a consultant anaesthesiologist and medical historian.

Paul wrote: "I'll nominate The Way of All Flesh a mystery set in Victorian Edinburgh by Ambrose Parry ( actually Scots noir writer Christopher Brookmyre writing..."

Yes, this is one I really like the sound of and have been meaning to read for some time. I am going to second this one.

Alannah wrote: "I nominate The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes"

I second The Giver of Stars.

I'm a Charles Soule groupie. He's written only two books. But tons of comics. Click on the book cover to read the promo. I think it's soooo good. And the discussions will be very interesting. I'm half way through it right now.

"Anyone" masterfully interweaves the present-day story of the discovery and development of the flash with the gritty tale of one woman’s crusade to put an end to the darkness it has brought to the world twenty-five years after its creation. Like Blade Runner crossed with Get Out, Charles Soule’s thought-provoking work of speculative fiction takes us to a world where identity, morality, and technology collide."

I'd like to nominate American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins, as I now own TWO paperback copies of this book, and am being told by everyone that I must read it. --Jen from Quebec :0)

Jen from Quebec :0) wrote: "I'd like to nominate American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins, as I now own TWO paperback copies of this book, and am being told by everyo..."

I'll happily second American Dirt, as long as it's not too new to be eligible. I don't remember the guidelines. :)

Paul wrote: "I'll nominate The Way of All Flesh a mystery set in Victorian Edinburgh by Ambrose Parry ( actually Scots noir writer Christopher Brookmyre writing..."

I'd like to second The Way of All Flesh.

I’ll second The Dutch House

PattyMacDotComma wrote: "Jen from Quebec :0) wrote: "I'd like to nominate American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins, as I now own TWO paperback copies of this book,..."

I'm happy to accept it as more and more new books seem to come out in different formats at once.

Thank you everyone for your nominations and seconds, we're off to a great start with four books heading to poll already. Just two more to add on.

Books Nominated:
Christmas Eve at Friday Harbor by Lisa Kleypass
Anyone by Charles Soule


Books Going To Poll
The Way of All Flesh by Amrose Parry
The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes
American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett

I would have thought that January 2020 is far too new to be accepted here, (even given the different formats available.) Wasn't there time-guidelines on how old or new a book had to be? Just checking.

It doesn't bother me specifically, I suppose, but I was just checking. But I only read paper/hard-back books so if the book was chosen, then it would affect me.

To be honest Bette I wasn’t aware that there was ever a rule on how long the book had to have been published. As well as checking what formats had been released I also looked at how many countries the book had been released in as well and seen that it had already published in the majority of countries and in different languages as well.

Alannah, yes, there was. It was so that people who couldn't buy the book new or have access to it at a library because it was too new and therefore popular, could have as fair a chance as anyone of being able to read the book.

I do remember that as being one of the criteria of the type of book you could select. Maybe let American Dirt in this time but heed that criteria next month. :)

I will find the criteria and add it in for the next fiction and non fiction group read nomination threads. Thank you for letting me know about this Bette.

Nominations are closed, poll will be set up shortly.

The poll is here:

https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/1...