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Nominations for October's book (thesite.org bookclub)
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Here is the thread for nominations for October's book for thesite.org bookclub.
The nomination's will remain open until the 27th of September or until there are 10 books nominated. A thread with a poll and links to reviews of each of the books will then be posted to allow voting to decide which book will be October's book.
Several of you have put various suggestions in other threads for books we could read this month but if you want them to be included in the poll then please nominate them in this thread.
If you didn't take part last month but want to get involved then you are more then welcome to join in!
EDITED TO ADD: We've reached the limit of number of options now so please reserve any other suggestion for next month's nominations thread.
The nomination's will remain open until the 27th of September or until there are 10 books nominated. A thread with a poll and links to reviews of each of the books will then be posted to allow voting to decide which book will be October's book.
Several of you have put various suggestions in other threads for books we could read this month but if you want them to be included in the poll then please nominate them in this thread.
If you didn't take part last month but want to get involved then you are more then welcome to join in!
EDITED TO ADD: We've reached the limit of number of options now so please reserve any other suggestion for next month's nominations thread.
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My own nomination for this month is for Inconceivable by Ben Elton.
A Confederacy of Dunces is a good'un, though :thumb:
I nominate... Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs. It's coming out as a film in the US anythime soon, so I reckon it'll be over here next year.
I'm being serious.
Is a month enough time for you to read all the way through it?
I dont know, I might struggle.
I would actually second Sofie's suggestion of the John Peel book.
"Have you ever wondered what’s going on inside that ambulance you see screaming past with its sirens on and blue lights flashing?
Does it contain a heart attack victim fighting for their life, while trained medical professionals administer emergency treatment? Or have you considered that it might be yet another ‘maternataxi’ ordered by a woman who can’t be bothered to book a real cab and who then complains she can’t smoke on the way to hospital?
Meet Tom Reynolds. Tom is an Emergency Medical Technician who works for the London Ambulance Service in East London. He has kept a diary of his daily working life since 2003, first as a webside called ‘Random Acts of Reality’ and now for the first time as a no-punches-pulled book.
His award-winning writing is, by turn, moving, cynical, funny, heart-rending and compassionate.
From the tragic to the hilarious, from the heartwarming to the terrifying, the stories Tom tells give a fascinating - and at times alarming - picture of life in inner-city Britain, and the people who are paid to mop up after it. "
Oooooh, good nomination :thumb:
I shall think about this one :chin:
Some good ones in there though :thumb:
And can we have a thread to discuss the book of the month as well as the chat? I read last months book but didnt get to participate since i couldnt make the time & day of the chat.
oops - just saw that there was one, sorry, i'll go read it now
Sorry, couldn't resist, but i have read it
Also - George Orwell's Animal Farm. Because I need motivation for my Extended Essay.
Watership Down
Something I can get beyond the first few pages off without getting bored
I second this nomination too
I disregarded Mr Bump (because JsT and Infinite were worried that we couldn't read it in a month!) and the suggestion for John Peel's Autobiography because there isn't one and I wasn't 100% sure which book was actually being nominated (feel free to suggest the actual one next month though).
Hope that's okay by everyone.
If your nomination isn't on the poll then please nominate it again next month (not you, JsT