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With This Ring by Dan Gury & The Dynadukes. I'm listening to The Polka Jammer Network, the best place for Chicago-style Polka Music.

There are three on the list I nominated and one I seconded. I will stand pat, hoping someone will bring one or more of those along to the next round.

Shall we aim to start the discussion in two weeks?

Me too. That's why I haven't posted on this month's book. I will remove An American Tragedy from my list and replace it with Bill Bryson's Walk in the Woods, thus seconding Bryson.

Maybe I've got it :

I am trying to post a copy of the painting by Mary Cassett called "In the Loge", which I think illustrates the beginning of the story, but cannot figure out how to do it. What is the secret?

Maybe at some point we can each remove books from our list of ten in order to double-up on books from someone else's list.

Letters and Papers from Prison by Dietrich Bonhoeffer Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser Daniel Deronda by George Eliot The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald...

Here is another way to select the BOTMs. Hold a tournament. The Tournament of Novels » First Thoughts | A First Things Blog

I like the idea of scheduling ahead. It would help me on my reading plan as I often lack the time to read the selected books under the current process. I also like the idea of having different genres and including the classics and more current writings.

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

I'm in!

I'd like to go back to some of the great novels. Here are five I suggested in 2008: An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James

I have read them all, including U. Most of them are set in Santa Theresa which is really Santa Barbara. She got the Santa Theresa name from an earlier Santa Barbara detective writer, Ross Macdonald. I started reading her books because I have ties to Santa Barbara. I can visualize many of the...

After scanning the headlines I head straight for the comics, then double back through the sports before I get to the news sections.

Part of my dissatisfaction is the book is supposedly based on a true story, but is really fantasy. Doctorow has not tried to understand the Collyers, but instead has built his book out of the skeleton of their lives. It's almost as though he borrowed their lives because he did not have the...

I finished the book a couple weeks ago. I found it a pleasant but not very satisfying read. Many of the incidents did not ring true for me (maybe because I'm not from New York). I'm not sure what the author was trying to say when he wrote the book.

Libra is right on this point. I stalled out at the Methwold chapter several months ago, as noted in my earlier post. Last week, I picked up the book again. Once I got into Part 2, the book began to flow. The jury is still out as to whether I will like the book as a whole. I am enjoying...

I've been stalled out at the end of the Methwold chapter (page 117 in my edition) and am not sure I will have the gumption to keep going.

IMO, one suggestion per member would be too stifling. Better to have a rule that says at least one other member needs to bless the nomination before it goes on the voting list. If you end up with a list of more than five and none get a majority of the votes, have a run-off.