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| Which book do you want to read & discuss in May? |
| Songs of the Humpback Whale by Jodi Picoult |
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| Keeping Faith by Jodi Picoult |
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26% |
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| Me and Emma by Elizabeth Flock |
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15% |
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| Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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| When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro |
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| Madame Bovary by Gustav Flaubert |
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| The Shipping News by Annie Proulx |
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MAY BOOK CHOICES - YOU DECIDE!
Which books would you like to be read in May? All you have to do is vote for one of the books below. Read the blurbs and see if there is anything that looks interesting and the book with the most votes by 21st April will be chosen to be read from 1st May.
There is also another poll running so please take a look at that one too as there may be something on that list. There will be two books chosen but you don't have to read both if you don't want to.
The polls end midnight 21st April!
1. Songs of the Humpback Whale by Jodi Picoult 352 pages
Jodi Picoult's acclaimed debut novel treats fans old and new to a beautiful, poignant story of family, friendship and love. Jodi Picoult's powerful novel portrays an emotionaly charged marriage that changes course in one explosive moment. For years, Jane Jones has lived in the shadow of her husband, renowned San Diego oceanographer Oliver Jones. But during an escalating argument, Janes turns to him with an alarming volatility. In anger and fear, Jane leaves with her teenage daughter, Rebecca, for a cross-country odyssey. Charted by letters from her borther Joley, they are guided to his Massachusetts apple farm, where surprising self-discoveries await. Now Oliver, an expert at tracking humpback whales across vast oceans, will search for his wife across a continent, and find a new way to see the world, his family, and himself: through her eyes.
2. Keeping Faith by Jodi Picoult 480 pages
The White family has just been broken apart by divorce, and their seven-year-old daughter, Faith, starts to have talks with God and perform miracles. Picoult offers a provocative novel about belief and betrayal, miracles and mystery, and the fierce love of a mother for her child.
3. Me and Emma by Elizabeth Flock 304 pages
Eight-year-old Carrie Parker is determined to keep her younger sister Emma safe from a life of neglect at the hands of their drunken stepfather. After the sisters' plans to run away from home unravel, Carrie's world soon takes a shocking turn--with devastating results.
4. Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 320 pages
From the outside, fifteen-year-old Kambili has the perfect life. She lives in a beautiful house, has a caring family, and attends an exclusive missionary school. She's completely shielded from the troubles of the world. Yet, as Kambili reveals in her tender-voiced account, things are less than perfect in her wealthy Nigerian home. Although her papa is generous and well respected, he is fanatically religious and tyrannical at home. He looms over his family's every move, severely punishes Kambili and her older brother, Jaja, if they're not the best in their classes, and hits their mama if she disagrees with him. Home is silent and suffocating. Purple Hibiscus is a stunning debut that captures the fragile beauty of a young woman's awakening at a time when both country and family are on the cusp of change.
5. When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro 320 pages
In 1930s England, Christopher Banks has become one of the country's most celebrated detectives. His cases are the talk of London society. Yet one mystery has always haunted him, the mysterious disappearance of his parents in Old Shanghai, when he was a small boy.
6. Madame Bovary by Gustav Flaubert 352 pages
Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent reader of sentimental novels, she longs for passion and seeks escape in fantasies of high romance, in voracious spending and, eventually, in adultery. But even her affairs bring her disappointment and the consequences are devastating. Flaubert's erotically charged and psychologically acute portrayal of Emma Bovary caused a moral outcry on its publication in 1857. It was deemed so lifelike that many women claimed they were the model for his heroine; but Flaubert insisted: 'Madame Bovary, c'est moi'.
7. The Shipping News by Annie Proulx 288 pages
Quoyle is a hapless, hopeless hack journalist living and working in New York. When his no-good wife is killed in a spectacular road accident, Quoyle heads for the land of his forefathers -- the remotest corner of far-flung Newfoundland. With 'the aunt' and his delinquent daughters -- Bunny and Sunshine -- in tow, Quoyle finds himself part of an unfolding, exhilarating Atlantic drama. The Shipping News is an irresistible comedy of human life and possibility. 'To read The Shipping News is to yearn to be sitting in The Flying Squid Lunchstop, eating Seal Fin curry, watching the icebergs clink together in the bay.' The Times
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Voted for Keeping Faith again this month but wouldn't mind Me & Emma either! Have read Songs Of The Humpback Whale and it was good!
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I voted for Madame Bovary as it apparently reads as though it could have been written today and it's also on the 1001 list 
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I voted for Me and Emma x
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I think I'm going to go for Madame Bovary - another one from the 1001 list! Me and Emma looks really good, but I know the ending, so I didn't pick that.
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Ruth ... are you very excited that there IS to be a SATC film? I can't wait x
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Just to say ... I bought Me & Emma today so it HAS to win. LOL! x
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It's a close one this month again!
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You can say that again Mel! Have you voted on this one Debbie? We might need you to save the day again 
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Oooh the excitement!! Anyone want to bet which one will win? 
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Not sure! I'm really hoping it's Keeping Faith or Me & Emma. I'm thinking it might be The Shipping News though?
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I don't think it'll be The Shipping News. Let me guess, Keeping Faith.
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| Mazzystar wrote: | | Ruth ... are you very excited that there IS to be a SATC film? I can't wait x |
I am soooo excited about this! I hope Big is in it a lot!
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I think Me and Emma could win this poll - pure guess though!
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My guess is Me and Emma, purely because I just bought the book and will be reading it anyway x
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| I so want Keeping Faith to win as this is the only one on the list I have at the moment! |
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| clairabella wrote: | | I so want Keeping Faith to win as this is the only one on the list I have at the moment! |
That's what I'd love to read really!
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Yay! Keeping Faith is in the lead!!!!  Got to keep my fingers crossed that it doesn't change now!
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| mummymelly wrote: | | Yay! Keeping Faith is in the lead!!!! Got to keep my fingers crossed that it doesn't change now! |
It's all down to you Debbie to decide! I've not read any Jodi Picoult so if she wins, I finally will (this is what I like about BB).
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