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Vogue Muffin___x Vice Captain
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 Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2009 8:53 am
Here is the thread for you each to nominate ONE author each for February. As the previous months, make sure you don't nominate the same author as your nominated book of the month, to make sure we don't have too much similarity between the two, that almost defeats the point of having both.
A quick note to add that these nominations were originally the nominations for January, but due to some family business, I've been unable to keep the guild running properly and I apologise for that.
Things will be up and running properly again now!
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Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2009 9:04 am
I'd like to nominate Trudi Canavan for the Author of the month, who is the author of 'The Magicians' Guild' and the trilogy it belongs to.
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Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2009 9:19 am
Since young adult novels seem to be popular even here, I would like to nominate Johnathan Stroud as the next author of the month. He wrote the Bartimaeus trilogy, an excellent series that kicks off with The Amulet of Samarkand. Quote: Nathaniel is a boy magician-in-training, sold to the government by his birth parents at the age of five and sent to live as an apprentice to a master. Powerful magicians rule Britain, and its empire, and Nathaniel is told his is the "ultimate sacrifice" for a "noble destiny." If leaving his parents and erasing his past life isn't tough enough, Nathaniel's master, Arthur Underwood, is a cold, condescending, and cruel middle-ranking magician in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The boy's only saving grace is the master's wife, Martha Underwood, who shows him genuine affection that he rewards with fierce devotion. Nathaniel gets along tolerably well over the years in the Underwood household until the summer before his eleventh birthday. Everything changes when he is publicly humiliated by the ruthless magician Simon Lovelace and betrayed by his cowardly master who does not defend him. Nathaniel vows revenge. In a Faustian fever, he devours magical texts and hones his magic skills, all the while trying to appear subservient to his master. When he musters the strength to summon the 5,000-year-old djinni Bartimaeus to avenge Lovelace by stealing the powerful Amulet of Samarkand, the boy magician plunges into a situation more dangerous and deadly than anything he could ever imagine. In British author Jonathan Stroud's excellent novel, the first of The Bartimaeus Trilogy, the story switches back and forth from Bartimaeus's first-person point of view to third-person narrative about Nathaniel. Here's the best part: Bartimaeus is absolutely hilarious, with a wit that snaps, crackles, and pops. His dryly sarcastic, irreverent asides spill out into copious footnotes that no one in his or her right mind would skip over. A sophisticated, suspenseful, brilliantly crafted, dead-funny book that will leave readers anxious for more.
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Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2009 11:53 am
I'd like to nominate one of my favorite authors, Michael Crichton.
His works include:
Jurassic Park
Congo
Timeline
The Andromeda Strain
Sphere
Next
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Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2009 11:59 am
Question the Answer I'd like to nominate one of my favorite authors, Michael Crichton. His works include: Jurassic Park
Congo
Timeline
The Andromeda Strain
Sphere
NextAnd my favorite Crichton! The Terminal Man!
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Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2009 12:56 pm
My support is behind Crichton! He's one of my favorite authors.
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Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2009 6:42 pm
Uh... I nominate Lloyd Alexander whose works include:
The Chronicals of Prydian
The Westmark Trilogy
The Vesper Holly Series
Time Cat
Gypsy Rizka
and several other novels.
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Posted: Sun Dec 06, 2009 5:21 pm
I nominate C.S Lewis! Just because I'm going back and reading The Chronicles of Narnia, and really forgot how much a superb author he was, sigh wonder if we'll ever get a writer like this besides J.K Rowling for our generation.
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Posted: Sun Dec 06, 2009 5:24 pm
I would like to nominate John Flanagan, he's the author of Ranger's Apprentice. Which I started rereading cause I finally got back my 5th one and I bought the 6th one! Also trying to talk my mom in buying me the 9th one because it hasn't been released in America yet evil
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Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2009 8:34 am
I nominate Patrick Rothfuss. He wrote Name of the Wind.
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Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 2:30 pm
I'd like to nominate Amelia Atwater-Rhodes for the author of the month as it is my birthday coming up xd I want to use that as an excuse to help her win~ OH!!! OR we could go with PC and Kristin Cast OOR we could go with Tamora Pierce~ ^w^ 4laugh rofl lol razz
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Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 3:14 pm
Weregirl89 I'd like to nominate Amelia Atwater-Rhodes for the author of the month as it is my birthday coming up xd I want to use that as an excuse to help her win~ OH!!! OR we could go with PC and Kristin Cast OOR we could go with Tamora Pierce~ ^w^ 4laugh rofl lol razz You need to pick just one to nominate, but personally I would rather have an adult author, rather than a YA one. All the other nominations have been added to my list. Weregirl: Pick an author and then post which one you have chosen before the 19th of this month and it will be added to the list too.
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Vogue Muffin___x Vice Captain
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Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2010 6:31 pm
Card is too anti-Protestant for me;
as a Mormon he has this too obvious axe to grind.
I nominate Robert Holdstock
especially for
Mythago Wood
Lavondyss
and The Hollowing
deeply creepy fantasy
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Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2010 2:11 pm
beaulolais Card is too anti-Protestant for me; as a Mormon he has this too obvious axe to grind. I nominate Robert Holdstock especially for Mythago WoodLavondyssand The Hollowingdeeply creepy fantasy That has been noted down for you smile
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Vogue Muffin___x Vice Captain
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