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Post by keyodie on Dec 8, 2008 21:26:05 GMT -5
Suggestions for January's Book of the Month will be up until approximately one week before January, when all suggestions will be put into a poll to be voted on. Along with your suggestion, please include the genre of the book and maybe a mini-review to include in the poll.
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Post by ladytera on Dec 12, 2008 20:43:45 GMT -5
I have a slightly different kind of suggestion for this month. Heaven - Season One by Mur Lafferty Magical Realism - Fantasy Parsec-Seal-2007-Nominee What if Heaven wasn't all it's cracked up to be? Friends Kate and Daniel find that after their untimely deaths, Heaven leaves them dissatisfied and itching for something... else. So they're off, with a passport to discover more afterlifes, heroes and gods. During their adventures, they find out that their travel isn't a journey taken on a whim, but may be orchestrated, or even prophesied. This is an audio book rather than the print books we've been reading so far, and best of all it's free! I listened to this a couple years ago, and it was funny, thought provoking, and rather irreverent. Overall, a great read (or listen, as it may be.) If we go with this one, the link for the book is: www.podiobooks.com/title/heaven---season-one |
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Post by pansy on Dec 30, 2008 13:05:34 GMT -5
Looking for Alaskaby John Green Young Adult Novel It won the 2006 Michael L. Printz Award from the American Library Association. "Before: Miles "Pudge" Halter is done with his safe life at home. His whole existence has been one big nonevent and his obsession with famous last words has only made him crave the "Great Perhaps" (Francois Rabelais, poet) even more. He heads off to the sometimes crazy, possibly unstable, and anything-but-boring world of Culver Creek Boarding School, and his life becomes the opposite of safe. Because down the hall is Alaska Young. The gorgeous, clever, funny, sexy, self-destructive, screwed-up, and utterly fascinating Alaska Young, who is an event unto herself. She pulls Pudge into her world, launches him into the Great Perhaps, and steals his heart. After: Nothing is ever the same. " www.amazon.com/Looking-Alaska-John-Green/dp/014241221X/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1230660310&sr=8-1
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