European Royalty discussion

Hoorah! It's time for the first not-necessarily-royalty, not-necessarily-European book nomination cycle.

As a reminder, the nominations and voting will work the same way for this book as it does for our other book selection, but on a staggered schedule. The nomination thread will be posted on or about the 11th of the month, with voting to start on the 15th. We will vote until the 20th and then start reading together on the 1st. This should allow those who are interested to read both books along with the group.

Since this book read marks the birth of a new chapter in our group, and since it's Thanksgiving time here in the US, I thought it would be appropriate that our first topic be the birth of the US. So, pick a book dealing with the settling of the US up through the American Revolution. Fiction or non-fiction, new book or old, whatever you like. It can be from the US perspective or from another country's perspective. Use your imagination and let's start reading even more great books each month!

As always, please try to check amazon or some other site to make sure the book is easily available - the last thing we want is to nominate some great book that no one can get! Also, if the book doesn't fit the theme, I won't add it to this month's voting list, but I will carry it over to the next theme that it does fit under if you would like.

Also, since this is a new feature in this group, I'll accept multiple nominations from the same person, to ensure we have enough choice when voting time comes. I'll gauge this as we go along to see if it works or not.

Feel free to nominate one book of your choice in this thread until November 15th, 9pm Eastern.

At around that time, I'll make a voting thread and list all the nominated books, and people can vote for one book off of that list until November 20th around 9pm Eastern. Discussion can start on December 1. Looking forward to it!

I nominate Birth of Venus A Novel by Sarah Dunant.

I would like to nominate

Drums Along the Mohawk, by Walter D. Edmonds
and
Paul Revere's Ride, by David Hackett Fischer.

I nominate two (since we're allowed),

Shadowbrook by Beverly Swirling and The Winthrop Woman by Anya Seton.

I nominate The Women of the House: How a Colonial She-Merchant Built a Mansion, a Fortune, and a Dynasty by Jean Zimmerman



I have a couple of more ideas, but I'll wait to see the number of nominations we get, or Emily, you can just let me know if and when to post one or two of them.

Alright, I'm nominating another! I didn't realize we were all here at once, lol! My second nomination is A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World by Tony Horwitz

I m nominating

The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere

So glad to see all the activity in this topic. Great!

I'm going to nominate Arundel by Kenneth Roberts. This one focuses on Benedict Arnold during the Revolution.

How do you insert a book? I couldn't find anything on the help link.

There should be an "add book/author" link at the bottom of the post area.

Thanks, Susanna. I'm going to try it by adding another nomination.

Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier






Wooot! It worked - thank you, again.

Topic closed - it's time to vote!