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Can we get an idea of how each option works? For example, if genre month wins, do we then poll of genre type and then poll again on specific books in that genre? I like all the options but I want to get an idea of how each works before voting! Thanks. :cool:

Which I think is fair enough but if you did find the locale described interesting and were tempted to read that book, it would be nice to know what the book actually is. Especially if it is an older post and the "poster" is no longer around to ask. I'm definitely not trying to start trouble...

Always thought people should quote the book title/author in this thread because "Currently Reading" updates whenever it is changed and becomes irrelevant to the original post. Just a thought..... :whistling:

Hey Alex, glad that you are enjoying The Glass Castle! I read The Corpse Had A Familiar Face and thought it was great. Considering it was written in the late 1980s, the crime statistics were mind blowing but I thought Edna Buchanan gave the true crime aspects a real human touch. That might be...

I enjoyed Shakespeare: The World As Stage but... thought Bryson's decision to stick purely with actual Shakespeare documentation rather than hearsay (as so many of the previous Shakespeare biographies have) was a brave one. However, as a result of the minimal documentation available, the book...

I have bought a copy but haven't got around to reading it yet...

Having recently read and thoroughly enjoyed the original Pride and Prejudice I thought it might be interesting to revisit it from a different angle. I realise this version is supposed to be fun and it was but I felt the joke got old fairly quickly. And it did seem like quite a niche...

Count me in too...just have to finish The Poisonwood Bible and then I'll move it to the top of the TBR pile.

Phillip Roth won "The Man Booker International Prize". From The Man Booker Website: "The Man Booker International Prize" recognises one writer for his or her achievement in fiction (not for a particular novel). Worth £6O,OOO, the prize is awarded every two years to a living author who...

Hi Nicola, Very interested in seeing what you think of this one... are you an Aussie?

The Pilot's Wife - Anita Shreve :stars3:

Over 500 pages in one day... that is impressive! And I agree, great trilogy - I found the 2nd novel the best of the three.

Wow, thanks for mentioning that Beer Good because I have White Teeth and was going to give it a miss after On Beauty. Guess it can stay in the TBR pile after all!

How many pages did that lop off? Do you think the story suffered as a result of your abbreviated read?

Hey Cowbell, How did you find the ending of this one?

From my son's school fair: Miss Smilla's Feeling For Snow - Peter Hoeg The Black Echo - Michael Connelly The Reapers - John Connolly Alone - Lisa Gardner White Jazz - James Ellroy 5 books for $1 total - best bargain ever!

Alice's Adventures In Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

House Of Leaves was definitely the first thing that came to my mind but Pontalba was 10 hours ahead! Great job Pontalba. I tried reading this a few years back when I wasn't reading as much as I do now and consequently struggled with the enormity of it (over 700 pages). I am now very tempted...

On Beauty - Zadie Smith :stars3: Struggled through this one but the last 50 pages made up for the first 400 dragging so much.