Group Read: October and November 2014

Time to start thinking about our next two Group Reads. Please nominate up to two books you would like to include as Group Reads, and second as many nominated books as you like. We will have a poll to decide the two books in about five days time.

I'd like to nominate Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord and House of Leaves (I've heard it is kind of a spooky/Halloween-y read).

I'll nominate The Waves by Virginia Woolf and New York Trilogy by Paul Auster.

I nominate Les Enfants Terribles by Jean Cocteau and A Woman's Life by Guy de Maupassant.

I second The Waves and nominate Paradise of the Blind and Testament of Youth.

I'll second Les Enfants Terribles and A Woman's Life.

I second Paradise of the Blind.

I'll nominate The Children's Book en He Knew He Was Right.

I'll second Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord and House of Leaves.

I'm not going to nominate books as I haven't read nearly as many as other people but I would like to put in my preference for
1. Books that are slightly more modern (because I am heavily slanted towards the classics at the moment
2. Books that are relatively easy to get hold of

I also prefer books that are on the 2012 list 'cos that's the one I'm using ;-)

I'll second The Children's Book. That's been sitting on my shelf forever!

>9 M1nks: you should go for it and nominate some books! Anything that gets seconded here will be out in a poll and you'll be able to vote for as many books as you like.

I'll second New York Trilogy and He Knew He Was Right.

I'll second The Waves... cos it's one of my all time faves and I'd love to see what others think

I second Testament of Youth, a book I really want to read. And I nominate The Unbearable Lightness of Being, although perhaps everybody but me has already read it.

I'll second The Unbearable Lightness of Being, as evidence that you have company of at least one in not having read it. :)

(I haven't read Unbearable Lightness yet either)

The nominations are closed with 11 books seconded through to the poll.

The poll is on this link:

http://vote.pollcode.com/63494253

and the results can be viewed here

http://poll.pollcode.com/63494253_result?v

Vote for as many books as you like but please vote only once.

The poll will close in around five days.

>13 annamorphic: I haven't read it - gets a vote from me

This is such a great bunch of nominations. Only one book I've read before, The New York Trilogy, and even that is one I know would be a good group read. I'm already psyched to do whichever ones win.

The poll is now closed and we have two books.

Paradise of the Blind by Duong Thu Huong came out on top with 11 votes and will be our October read, and Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain was second with 10 votes and will be our November read.

I'll set up threads for these at the start of the respective months.

Oops, wrong thread.

Oh wow, both my nominations were chosen. I suppose I should actually join in the group read this time.

So excited to read Testament of Youth!! Just ordered it on ebay. I already got Paradise of the Blind because it seemed pretty certain to be a winner. So I'm all set.

I've also already ordered Paradise of the Blind and it's ready for me to pick up, but was tricked by early voting results into requesting The Unbearable Lightness of Being for November. That request is cancelled, and now I'm trying to get Testament of Youth through ILL - evidently no copies available locally.

I hadn't even heard of both of them! I am excited to join both GRs, trying to get both books in time.

Paradise of the Blind is ordered and should be here next week.

Two new books! Better get ordering!

I just ordered Paradise of the Blind and I didn't even know it was nominated and chosen! Can't wait to get it now!