sirg1006
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 Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 9:08 am Post subject: **JANUARY BOOK CHOICES - UNDER THE SKIN** |
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JANUARY BOOK CHOICES - YOU DECIDE!
Which books would you like to be read in January? 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 14th December will be chosen to be read from 1st January to 31st January.
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 14th December!
1. 
Under The Skin by Michel Faber 296 pages, £6.39
A brilliantly told and beautifully written that defies categorisation, Under the Skin introduces Isserley, a woman obsessed with picking up male hitchhikers - so long as they're well-muscled and alone. But why? As the novel unfolds and the reason is made explicit, the reader is drawn inexorably into a completely unexpected and increasingly terrifying world.
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The Little House by Philippa Gregory 320 pages, £4.89
It was easy for Elizabeth. She married the man she loved. It was harder for Ruth. She married Elizabeth's son and then found that, somehow, she could never quite measure up. This thriller examines what women want and what they fear, as Ruth confronts the shifting borders of her own sanity.
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Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg 416 pages, £6.39
One snowy day in Copenhagen, six-year-old Isaiah falls to his death from a city rooftop. The police pronounce it an accident. But Isaiah's neighbour, Smilla, suspects murder. She embarks on a dangerous quest to find the truth, following a path of clues as clear to her as footsteps in the snow.
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Emotionally Weird by Kate Atkinson 416 pages, £6.39
On a weather-beaten island off the coast of Scotland, Effie and her mother, Nora, take refuge in the large, mouldering house of their ancestors and tell each other stories. Nora, at first, recounts nothing that Effie really wants to hear--like who her real father was. Effie tells various versions of her life at college, where in fact she lives in a lethargic relationship with Bob, a student who never goes to lectures, seldom gets out of bed, and to whom Klingons are as real as Spaniards and Germans.
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Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden 512 pages, £5.59
A seductive and evocative epic on an intimate scale, that tells the extraordinary story of a geisha girl. Summoning up more than twenty years of Japan's most dramatic history, it uncovers a hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degradation. From a small fishing village in 1929, the tale moves to the glamorous and decadent heart of Kyoto in the 1930s, where a young peasant girl is sold as servant and apprentice to a renowned geisha house. She tells her story many years later from the Waldorf Astoria in New York; it exquisitely evokes another culture, a different time and the details of an extraordinary way of life. It conjures up the perfection and the ugliness of life behind rice-paper screens, where young girls learn the arts of geisha - dancing and singing, how to wind the kimono, how to walk and pour tea, and how to beguile the most powerful men.
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Wicker by Kevin Guilfoile Pages 608, £5.59
A murdered daughter, a killer on the loose and one chance to stop him - Would you take fate into your own hands? A vial of DNA is all Dr. Davis Moore needs to identify his daughter's murderer after years of grief and uncertainty. If he could take the fateful step to clone the killer, would it really be so wrong if justice were the outcome? But the outcome is a boy named Justin Finn, whose face - one day - will be the exact match of the cold-blooded killer of whom he is a perfect genetic replica. Can Davis Moore bear to watch Justin's path to adulthood, knowing the terrible secret of his conception? Can he bear not to? Or is it more horrifying to have unleashed a new serial killer on the world?
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