September - Nominations Thread

[Michelle]

Well, we may as well start this off.. the voting will start somewhere around the middle of August.

Please nominate a book you think would make a good Reading Circle book.. you can re-nominate previous suggestions. Please include a synopsis if you can, and please 'second' any you think sound good. :)

[Kell]

I'd like to nominate American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis:
"Abandon hope all ye who enter". So begins a hellish descent into the world of Patrick Bateman, the novel's protagonist. Bateman is a handsome 26-year-old Wall Street yuppie, who spends his days listening to Whitney Houston and working out which exclusive restaurant to eat in and what clothes to wear in a dizzying parody of 1980s consumerism run mad. However, Bateman also has a darker side; he is a psychopathic serial killer, with a penchant for torturing and sexually abusing young women before killing them in the most gruesome and explicit fashion. (Made into a movie in 2000)

[Lilywhite]

As people said they like a bit of fantasy on the poll here (http://bookclubforum.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=247)
I would like to nominate Eragon by Christopher Paolini. I have read this one before but it's due a re-read and the film is coming out later this year too.....

Eragon ~ Christopher Paolini

One boy...
One dragon...
A world of adventure.

When Eragon finds a polished blue stone in the forest, he thinks it is the lucky discovery of a poor farm boy; perhaps it will buy his family meat for the winter. But when the stone brings a dragon hatchling, Eragon soon realizes he has stumbled upon a legacy nearly as old as the Empire itself.

Over night his simple life is shattered, and he is thrust into a perilous new world of destiny, magic and power. With only an ancient sword and the advice of an old storyteller for guidance, Eragon and the fledgling dragon must navigate the dangerous terrain and dark enemies of an Empire ruled by a king who's evil knows no bounds.

Can Eragon take up the mantle of the legendary Dragon Riders? The fate of the Empire may rest in his hands...

[Michelle]

ooh.. I'm going to second that one! :)

[Sugar]

I'll third Eragon too - I can call it research for work at the same time as getting the pleasure from it!

[Sarahrob]

Please can I re-nominate The Queen of the Tambourine by Jane Gardam?

"Eliza Peabody is one of those dangerously blameless women who believes she has God in her pocket. She is too enthusiastic; she talks too much. Her concern for the welfare of her wealthySouth London neighbours extends to ingenuous well-meaning notes of unsolicited adviceunder the door. It is just such a one-sided correspondence that heralds Eliza's undoing. Did her letter have something to do with the woman's abrupt disappearance ? Why will no-one else speak of her? And why the watchful, pitying looks and embarassment that now greet her?"

It has been nominated a couple of times and sounds really interesting!

[Michelle]

Does anyone have anything else to nominate? I think we'll give it about a week, then leave the vote up for a couple of weeks.

[1sillywabbit]

:? Its not Fantasy!!! Just delete me if it should be :shock:

'Misfortune' by Wesley Stace



On a moonlit night on the outskirts of London, Lord Geoffroy Loveall finds the answer to his prayers: an abandoned baby, somehow still alive amid the junk of a rubbish heap. Rescuing the infant from certain death, Lord Geoffroy adopts her as his only child, heir to the fabulous Love Hall fortune. He names her Rose in memory of his long-dead sister and gives her a childhood of unparalleled gaiety and unstinting pleasure.

But every house has a secret, and as Rose approaches adolescence, the secret of Love Hall becomes impossible to hide. As much as Lord Geoffroy wanted a daughter, the baby he brought home is, in fact, a boy. As a flock of outraged relatives circles, Rose has no choice but to flee. He must abandon the safety of his beloved home and travel halfway around the world in search of his rightful place.

This spirited and mischievous novel brims with irresistible details of a bygone era and a host of larger-than-life characters. Towering above them is the astonishing Rose, all man and all woman at once, bursting with an unforgettable, ravishing vitality. Misfortune - all the more remarkable for being the work of a first-time writer - is an exuberant, wholly original, and absolutely unstoppable feat of storytelling :roll:


Wabbit x :wave:

[Michelle]

Nope Wabbit, it doesn't have to be fantasy. :)

[1sillywabbit]

Nope Wabbit, it doesn't have to be fantasy. :)

:) Ok thanks Michelle



Wabbit x :wave:

[1sillywabbit]

Can I pop another one on :?

'Blindness' by José Saramoga

Suddenly, while stopped at a red light in his car, a man goes blind. A "white evil" obliterates his vision plunging him into light as fathomless and impenetrable as the darkest night. A crowd gathers and one man is kind enough to see him home. It is not long, however, before an epidemic of the new blindness causes the government to act in the most authoritarian and fearful of ways, throwing many of the recently disabled into a mental asylum, guarded by scared, trigger-happy soldiers, left to fend for themselves :shock: ...................

Ok will go away now, got to go shopping anyway :)
I WONT GO INTO WATERSTONES! :angel: I WONT GO INTO WATERSTONES! :(
I WONT GO INTO WATERSTONES! :roll: Well may just pop my head in :mrgreen:

Wabbit x :wave:

[Michelle]

Thank you everyone.. nominations now closed.