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writerlibrarian ([personal profile] writerlibrarian) wrote in [community profile] books2009-06-17 04:57 pm
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June Book discussion and July book club

A reminder that the June Book discussion of Good Omens by Terry  Pratchett and Neil Gaiman will start on June 25th. All individual reviews, comments, discussions (we hope) will be on that post.

The post will have questions, themes and such.  If you already have themes or ideas about question, please do post them here, it will only add to the discussion, review and comments.


July Book club

We want to do thematic or genre books for some of the months along with a common book month.

July is a thematic month.

We have two themes to choose from and titles for that theme. All titles might be read. The fun of a thematic month is to discover new titles or new authors, get discussion going on the theme.

Poll #596 July book club
This poll is closed.
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 45


Theme

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Alternate history
37 (88.1%)

Swedish noir novel
5 (11.9%)

Alternate history book

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Naomi Novik's Temeraire series (any titles)
13 (32.5%)

Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policemen's Union
4 (10.0%)

Liz Williams' Inspector Chen series (Any of the three titles)
2 (5.0%)

Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale
12 (30.0%)

Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451
6 (15.0%)

Jasper Fforde's The Eyre Affair
13 (32.5%)

Philip Roth's The Plot Against America
5 (12.5%)

Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
13 (32.5%)

Other title tell you in comment
3 (7.5%)

Swedish noir novels

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Henning Mankell's Wallander series
2 (18.2%)

Maj Sjowall / Per Wahloo Martin Beck serie
2 (18.2%)

Helen Tursten's Inspector Huss series
1 (9.1%)

Asa Larsson's Sun Storm
1 (9.1%)

Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium 1)
8 (72.7%)

Other title tell you in comment
1 (9.1%)


I've tried to hit a balance between men and women authors, if you know of other women swedish writers I'm interested. : )

I'm thinking voting until the 25th so that people can know what to pick up for next month.

If you have suggestions for next month genre, please do send me a message or comment here.



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recommendation: Alternate History

[personal profile] evenfall 2009-06-18 12:21 am (UTC)(link)
I recommend The Age of Unreason series by Gregory Keyes. Brief info can be found from Wikipedia here