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Vogue Muffin___x Vice Captain
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 Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 6:50 am
Here is the thread where you can each nominate one book that you would like for December's book of the month.
If it's a book in a series, please make sure that you nominate the first book as others may not have read it.
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Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 8:21 am
I wish time could stop...   [ I started reading this new book a couple days ago, at first I thought it would suck, but after I got into it I freaking love it.
Its called Beastly by Alex Flinn.
Its pretty much Beauty and the Beast, but in our time period, and its in the beast point-of-view. ]...so we could be like this for a little bit longer.
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Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 9:10 am
I would like to nominate Stephen Hunt's The Court of the Air. It is a complex and well-written novel, and very hard to explain, so I found a quote: Quote: Doorstopper steampunk fantasy from British newcomer Hunt.Hunt's world is a curious past-future blend of aerostats, mechanical computers, psychic powers, self-willed steam-powered robots, Elder gods, talking superweapons and more. When orphan Molly Templar, sold from the local workhouse to a high-class bordello, starts work, her first client turns out to be an assassin. Molly escapes with the help of a steamman (she can fix damaged machines in a trice) and eventually learns from King Steam that she has a rare blood type—and that every person that shared it has been murdered. Elsewhere, another seemingly ordinary orphan, Oliver Brooks, lived four years inside the otherworldly "feymist"; since even brief exposure to feymist causes terrifying psychic powers to develop, the authorities are deeply suspicious of him. (Those less fortunate, whose powers develop, are cruelly enslaved or permanently consigned to dungeons.) Oliver returns home to find his uncle's household massacred, with disreputable spook Harry Stave the sole survivor. Together Harry and Oliver flee for their lives. After more than half a book's worth of adventures, the protagonists—youthful ciphers whose function is limited to forwarding the plot and acquiring the superpowers necessary to its culmination—finally meet, having discovered that they're the good guys in a struggle of prodigious and dystopian import. Watching everything are observers from the Court of the Air, a cadre of executioners dedicated to curbing powerful ambitions and government excess—or so they claim.
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Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 9:13 am
iMorbid_Plague I wish time could stop... [ I started reading this new book a couple days ago, at first I thought it would suck, but after I got into it I freaking love it.
Its called Beastly by Alex Flinn.
Its pretty much Beauty and the Beast, but in our time period, and its in the beast point-of-view. ] ...so we could be like this for a little bit longer. I second this.
I love Beastly!
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Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 9:25 am
I will make another science fiction plug, and nominate The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis. It's a bit thick, but hey, we have a whole month, including a few holidays...
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Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 3:02 pm
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert Quote: For this novel of French bourgeois life in all its inglorious banality, Flaubert invented a paradoxically original and wholly modern style. His heroine, Emma Bovary, a bored provincial housewife, abandons her husband to pursue the libertine Rodolphe in a desperate love affair. A succès de scandale in its day, Madame Bovary remains a powerful and arousing novel.
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Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 8:29 pm
Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey. Summary Kushiel's Dart is Jacqueline Carey's first novel and the first of the novels in her Kushiel's Legacy series. The idea for this book first came to Carey when she was reading the Biblical Book of Genesis, and specifically a passage about "sons of God" coming into the "daughters of Men." Later, when she was writing a coffee table book, she encountered Jewish folklore, which paralleled the story in greater detail. She based Terre D'Ange on a nation founded by a rebel angel.
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Posted: Sun Nov 01, 2009 5:50 am
I'd like to nominate The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
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Vogue Muffin___x Vice Captain
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Posted: Sun Nov 01, 2009 7:04 am
All nominations so far have been noted down smile
Just noticed that I haven't nominated anything yet.
I would like to nominate The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. I read it about a year and a half ago now, and I really loved it. Would love the chance to re-read it and then discuss it with my fellow Gaians!!
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Posted: Sun Nov 01, 2009 7:33 am
iMorbid_Plague I wish time could stop... [ I started reading this new book a couple days ago, at first I thought it would suck, but after I got into it I freaking love it.
Its called Beastly by Alex Flinn.
Its pretty much Beauty and the Beast, but in our time period, and its in the beast point-of-view. ] ...so we could be like this for a little bit longer. I second this as well I loved it very mature yet cute smile
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Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 7:12 am
Okay, I've been on a LotR kick for a while now and I've already started 2 LotR topics. So, I'm gonna nominate... The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J.R.R. Tolken It might be a bit ambitious for our guild because (barring the occasional smutty vampire novel) our guild seems to only read YA literature. But I still want to suggest it.
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Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 7:38 am
RenkonNairu Okay, I've been on a LotR kick for a while now and I've already started 2 LotR topics. So, I'm gonna nominate... The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J.R.R. Tolken It might be a bit ambitious for our guild because (barring the occasional smutty vampire novel) our guild seems to only read YA literature. But I still want to suggest it. Well, I still nominate my previous mention, but I also second this one. It's all Renkon's fault. I was the only one online when aforementioned threads were made, and so I am now drawn into an LotR kick myself.
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Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 7:40 am
Tommy Dionysus RenkonNairu Okay, I've been on a LotR kick for a while now and I've already started 2 LotR topics. So, I'm gonna nominate... The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J.R.R. Tolken It might be a bit ambitious for our guild because (barring the occasional smutty vampire novel) our guild seems to only read YA literature. But I still want to suggest it. Well, I still nominate my previous mention, but I also second this one. It's all Renkon's fault. I was the only one online when aforementioned threads were made, and so I am now drawn into an LotR kick myself. Heh heh heh. Its like a virus. xd
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Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 7:41 am
RenkonNairu Okay, I've been on a LotR kick for a while now and I've already started 2 LotR topics. So, I'm gonna nominate... The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J.R.R. Tolken It might be a bit ambitious for our guild because (barring the occasional smutty vampire novel) our guild seems to only read YA literature. But I still want to suggest it. The fact that most of the people here read YA and vampire smut is all the more reason to suggest LotR. I still support my own nomination as well, though, which is certainly not a YA book.
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Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 8:01 am
RenkonNairu Tommy Dionysus RenkonNairu Okay, I've been on a LotR kick for a while now and I've already started 2 LotR topics. So, I'm gonna nominate... The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J.R.R. Tolken It might be a bit ambitious for our guild because (barring the occasional smutty vampire novel) our guild seems to only read YA literature. But I still want to suggest it. Well, I still nominate my previous mention, but I also second this one. It's all Renkon's fault. I was the only one online when aforementioned threads were made, and so I am now drawn into an LotR kick myself. Heh heh heh. Its like a virus. xd Well, kind of. I love the books a lot, myself, so it was inevitable that I would lapse into a LotR kick again at some point. You were merely a catalyst. lol
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