June Nominations

[Kell]

We might only just have started reading our book for May, but the nominations for June start here!

You've got two weeks to make your nominations (this thread will close on Sunday 20th May), which will be followed by a week of voting from a selection chosen from the nominations to give everyone a chance to get the winning book.

If you'd like to second a book that's already been nominated, that's absolutely fine too - it helps make the poll selection a lot easier!

Please only make nominations and seconds here, rather than discussing the books nominated or going off-topic. Also, bear in mind that having hundreds of nominations makes it more difficult, so please limit yourself to a maximum of two nominations per person, although you can second as many as you like.

Thanks.

Let the nominations begin!

[Kell]

I'd like to nominate two right of the bat:

The Time machine by H. G. Wells:
When a Victorian scientist propels himself into the year 802,701 AD, he is initially delighted to find that suffering has been replaced by beauty, contentment and peace. Entranced at first by the Eloi, an elfin species descended from man, he soon realises that this beautiful people are simply remnants of a once-great culture now weak and childishly afraid of the dark. They have every reason to be afraid: in deep tunnels beneath their paradise lurks another race descended from humanity the sinister Morlocks. And when the scientist's time machine vanishes, it becomes clear he must search these tunnels, if he is ever to return to his own era.

The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger:
A 16-year old American boy relates in his own words the experiences he goes through at school and after, and reveals with unusual candour the workings of his own mind. What does a boy in his teens think and feel about his teachers, parents, friends and acquaintances?

[lovesreading06]

i would like to nominate The Silent war by Victor Pemberton


From Back page

Sunday Collins is less than happy with her lot in life in bom blasted North London, working in the sweaty, steamy 'bagwash', the laundry round the corner from the stark Holloway council flats where she lives, Although her adopted mother, Madge Collins, who found her abanded on the steps of salvation army as a baby, is as loving as any mother could be, to sunder her affectyion is stifling and sahring there cramped home with Madge's lazy, bad tempered sister Louie is far from easy.

Sunday longs for saturday nights when , with her her firend Pearl, she takes full advantage of her Betty Grable looks down at the Athenaeum Dance hall where her motto is a defiant 'Liffe is changed dramtically with, on the a warm summer morning in 1944, the bagwash receives a direct hit from one of Hitlers V-1s, and she finds she is suddenly and , she has to accept, permanently deaf.

[chocolategal]

I would like to Nomitnate The Milly-Molly-Mandy Storybook! By Joyce Lankester Brisley.
From back page.
Milly-Molly-Mandy (who always wears a pink-and-white striped dress) has charmed generations of children. in twenty-one stories she has all kinds of adventures both on her own and wihthy her favourite chums Billy Blunt and Little-friend-Susan.

I love this book, it is very interesting and because there are serval short stories you can always hve a new one to read!

:friends0:

[lovesreading06]

I second The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger its looks good.

[FishAndChips]

I second the time machine by H. G. Wells - page turning classic sci fi and a fairly short read sounds right up my street.

I also had a dream about this story a few nights ago (before I'd seen the nomination here, must be some kind of sign :lol:)

I'd love to read the book. I loved the film even though its very dated. I remember the morloks scaring me witless as a child.

[Gyre]

Can I suggest 'Sunshine' by Robin McKinley

The Blurb:

"There are places in the world where darkness rules. Where it's unwise to walk. But there hadn't been any trouble out at the lake for years, and Sunshine just needed a spot where she could be alone with her thoughts. Vampires never entered her mind.

Until they found her... "

:D

[FishAndChips]

Are you allowed to second something and nominate something?

If so I'd like to nominate "Of mice and men" by John Steinbeck


A parable of commitment, loneliness, hope and loss, OF MICE AND MEN is a powerful and moving portrayal of two men striving to understand their own unique place in the world. Drifters in search of work, George and his simple-minded friend Lennie have nothing in the world except each other - and a dream. A dream that one day they will have some land of their own. Eventually they find work on a ranch, but their hopes are doomed as Lennie - struggling against extreme cruelty, misunderstanding and feelings of jealousy - becomes a victim of his own strength. Tackling universal themes, friendship and a shared vision, and giving a voice to America's lonely and dispossessed, OF MICE AND MEN remains Steinbeck's most popular work.


because:
1) for selfish reasons because its on my TBR ;)
2) Steinbeck is a great writer and this is supposed to be a classic so ahould be interesting to discuss
3) Have seen it in tesco recently quite cheaply, also should be easy to pick up from the library
4) its not a weighty tome so should be easy for everyrone to squeeze in amidst all their other reading

[Kell]

Are you allowed to second something and nominate something?Yes, you can second as many as you like and still make up to two nominations. :)

[Gyre]

I second 'The Time Machine' by H.G. Wells:D

[Kylie]

Here's a fourth vote for The Time Machine! I've been wanting to read this for ages. So much so that I already have it set up on my iPod and ready to go! :mrgreen:

[Pilgrim]

Catcher in the Rye - it's been a while. I'd kind of like to try the children's book by Brisley, though, too.

[Polka Dot Rock]

How about Michel Faber's hugely popular monster of a book, The Crimson Petal & the White (http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/f/michel-faber/crimson-petal-and-white.htm)? :mrgreen: I nominate it!


Gripping from the first page, this immense novel is an intoxicating and deeply satisfying read. Faber's most ambitious fictional creation yet, it is sure to affirm his position as one of the most talented and brilliant writers working in the UK. Sugar, an alluring, nineteen-year-old whore in the brothel of the terrifying Mrs Castaway, yearns for a better life. Her ascent through the strata of 1870's London society offers us intimacy with a host of loveable, maddening and superbly realised characters. At the heart of this panoramic, multi-layered narrative is the compelling struggle of a young woman to lift her body and soul out of the gutter. The Crimson Petal and the White is a big, juicy, must-read of a novel that will delight, enthral, provoke and entertain young and old, male and female.


An intoxicating tome, Michel Faber's second novel takes us on a dazzling journey through the streets of Victorian London as seen through the eyes of a charismatic and well-read prostitute, Sugar. With touches of George Eliot, Charlotte Bront? and Charles Dickens, The Crimson Petal and the White is a compulsive read. 'The real joy of the book is in its acutely drawn intimacies of the late 19th-century metropolis, of the huge gap between rich and poor, between upstairs and downstairs.'

[madcow]

I'll second Of Men and Mice by Steinbeck because it will give me more incentive to read it sooner rather than later.

[O's]

I nominate 'The thief of Always' by clive barker

Synopsis
Mr Hood's holiday house has stood for a thousand years, welcoming countless children into its embrace. It is a place of miracles, a blissful round of treats and seasons, where every childish whim may be satisfied. But there is a price to be paid. Harvey Swick finds out about the dark side.

[Icecream]

I'll second the Catcher in the Rye, and also Sunshine, although a few others look good too.

[Purple Poppy]

There are just too many this time...can I second them all?
I will second...oh gosh...all of them.
Of Mice and Men. Catcher in the Rye, and I would love to read Millie Mollie Mandy again!
But honestly...any of them...really !!!

(rotten lot mumble mumble ...always making life difficult mumble urhhh!)
Pp

[Kell]

I know what you mean, PP - I really do want to read all the books nominated this time too! Tell you what - this is extending my wish list no end!

Anyone else want to nominate? You have till the weekend, but the earlier you nominate, the more likely someone will second it before the thread closes...

[kitty_kitty]

I would like to nominate - The Robber Bride Margaret Atwood.

From the back of the book:
Zenia is beautiful, smart and greedy, by turns manipulative and vulnerable, needy and ruthless; a man's dream and a woman's nightmare. She is also dead. Just to be sure Tony, Roz and Charis are there for her funeral. But 5 yaers on, as the three women share a sisterly lunch, the impossible happens: 'with waves of ill will flowing out of her like cosmic radiation' Zenia is back..........

Selfish reason to nominate it is on my TBR pile

[madcow]

I nominate 'The thief of Always' by clive barker

Synopsis
Mr Hood's holiday house has stood for a thousand years, welcoming countless children into its embrace. It is a place of miracles, a blissful round of treats and seasons, where every childish whim may be satisfied. But there is a price to be paid. Harvey Swick finds out about the dark side.

This one sounds good too.

[Lilywhite]

I was thinking that too, I will third it :)

Now to get hold of it....

[FishAndChips]

I second Thief of Always too.

Have never read any Clive Barker but amazon reviews look good. Also written for children (but accessible to adults) means it shouldnt be too scary.

[Gyre]

I nominate 'The thief of Always' by clive barker

Synopsis
Mr Hood's holiday house has stood for a thousand years, welcoming countless children into its embrace. It is a place of miracles, a blissful round of treats and seasons, where every childish whim may be satisfied. But there is a price to be paid. Harvey Swick finds out about the dark side.

I read this book years ago and I loved it, just a great wee find and all the better for being by Clive Barker, plus there is loads of cats in it.:D

http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q109/supernatural_album/thiefofalways.jpg
http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q109/supernatural_album/clivebarker1.jpg
:D

[Essexgirl]

I'll second Catcher in The Rye, and of Mice and Men

I'd like to nominate To Kill A Mocking Bird by Harper Lee

[princessponti]

Iwill second The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger and Of Mice and Men - one of my favourite books, although badly timed as it's currently in storage!!! ...the catcher in the rye I have never read but feel that I should (plus it looks really interesting!).

[Kell]

The nominations thread is now closed and three of the nominations have been selected for polling. You can vote for the one you'd like to be read for June Reading Circle in the June Poll...