Book Club Proposal Poll

[Scheherazade]

Please vote for the nomination system you would like the Book Club to follow in 2006. (Discussion Thread)

You can choose more than one option.

1. Author of the month: 12 authors to be chosen and each month we choose a book written by one particular author. E.g. In January we include only Camus' works in the poll and read one of those in February.

2. Genre of the month: Different genres to be selected and we nominate/vote for books belonging that particular genre each month. E.g., March: Month of Sci-fi so only sci-fi books will be nominated for that month.

3. Country of the month: 12 countries to be chosen and each month we read a book from that particular country's literature. The works nominated would not be too obscure (only those are available in English on Amazon maybe?)

4. Trend of the month: Each month we read a book from a different period such as Victorian, Romantic etc.

5. Random nominations: The present system. We nominate the books we would like to read randomly.



Book Club Procedures

[Scheherazade]

Just a reminder that this poll will close on September 30th.

[rachel]

For me I like the idea of an author of the month, the rest seem too confusing to me.
That way there he/she is before you and you can disregard the ocean of others and pick from that author's book bag of works.
Well I suppose I could have it all wrong.
What does anyone else think?

"Time and unforseen occurances befall us all" Bible

[Nightshade]

Hadnt seen this before ummmm Ill vote trend although other than Jay Im the only one who voted that *sigh*

[Jay]

Jay's also voted the author of the month option... anyone else wants to join lonesome Jay in there?
I'm being silly, lol

[Scheherazade]

Are heading towards another draw???


Last 5 days of voting!

[papayahed]

How'd I miss this one...

[B-Mental]

I like the idea of country, but is it the nation of the author, or the setting of the story.
I think this one would open up the possibility of reading books from a broader range than I am currently used to.

[Scheherazade]

I like the idea of country, but is it the nation of the author, or the setting of the story.
I think this one would open up the possibility of reading books from a broader range than I am currently used to.

The nation of the author. I agree with you that it would give us a chance to try new things.

The only trouble we might have with this is the availability of the books but as long as we nominate books which are found on amazon in English, it should be OK.

[pea]

I like the idea of country, but is it the nation of the author, or the setting of the story.
I think this one would open up the possibility of reading books from a broader range than I am currently used to.

i also voted for this but i now think it's hard to make this idea really work.
i prefer to read a book in the language it was originally written. translation, no matter how well done, will lack some special flavor. but that means i could only read Chinese, English and a little bit Germany. i will certainly want to appreciate other wisdoms of human minds. hope i can learn more languages.

[Scheherazade]

Going once...

[Scheherazade]

Going twice...

[crisaor]

Voted Author of the Month. Truth be told, any of the first 4 options works for me, but it's the first one that seems to have the best chance of beating the current system.