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BOOK OF THE MONTH - Bookclub is back! Vote for October's bookclub choice here

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TillyBookClub · 24/09/2008 19:31

Bookclub is back in business. Six novels, all previous Booker Prize winners, are waiting for your vote. Only one can be our Book of the Month.

Check out the selection and vote now - poll closes 8pm Tuesday 30 September. We'll get together to chat about the winning book on Tuesday 28 October, between 8 and 10pm.

If you're new to the Bookclub (or the summer holidays have left you gibbering and unable to recall anything beyond the last hour) check out how the Bookclub works, plus you can always grab a bit of literary inspiration from Mumsnet's Best Books Ever.

Can't wait to see who gets to be the Mumsnet Booker of Bookers, so everyone get voting and we'll announce the winner next Tues once the poll closes.

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morningpaper · 24/09/2008 20:17

Yay! The bookclub returns! I am going to concentrate properly this term...

morningpaper · 24/09/2008 20:19

Right I've voted

I think you might be able to SPOT my vote...

Marina · 24/09/2008 20:20

Oooh, MP, did you and I vote for the same novel by any chance?

FiveGoMadInDorset · 24/09/2008 22:59

Yay good to see you back, have coted for one of my tops books ever, and if I mention Troubles you will know what I mean. It is sitting on my shelf waiting to be read again.

lemurtamer · 25/09/2008 09:02

Am quite pleased to see I've read two, possible three of these (can't quite remember) and have a fourth on my bookshelf waiting for me. Can't decide which to vote for, probably one I haven't read, will have to consider at leisure.

FeelingLucky · 25/09/2008 09:44

hello.
I'm new to this and am about to vote now.
Guess you can't lobby for the book you want as nobody seems to have revealed which book they've voted for?

YellowBrickRoad · 25/09/2008 09:51

I'm new to this too (although have previously admired from afar) and have cast my vote.

lalaa · 25/09/2008 11:01

YAY

Delighted it's back. Love the selection.

bondgirl77 · 25/09/2008 16:13

I'm new to this too, missing my real life bookclub so will give this a try!

How do you bookmark this page? Do you just click on the 'threads I'm watching' thingy? Sorry that's probably a really basic question isn't it.

Cocodrillo · 25/09/2008 18:23

or just post on it (as you have done ) and then it'll be in your Threads I'm On list.

mum2oneloudbaby · 26/09/2008 08:27

really pleased this is back i've been keeping an eye all summer. i really need something to wake up my brain cells which i am sure are still in there somewhere

medogsarebarking · 26/09/2008 08:34

Oh I'd like to join in too please. I've voted..

uberalice · 26/09/2008 16:03

Count me in. Never done this before.

tabby0kat · 26/09/2008 22:27

Im really pleased to have found this. I love reading and have been thinkin about joining a bookclub lately. This is great I dont even need to go out and pay babysitter!!! lol

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TillyBookClub · 26/09/2008 23:23

V glad you all in. Keep watching for the winner on this thread - will post at 8.01pm Tuesday...

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Cocodrillo · 27/09/2008 21:33

I'll be impressed if it really is exactly 8.01pm

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TillyBookClub · 29/09/2008 13:23

I've noticed it says 12am on the poll page - I think I won't try and post at 12.01 am...

Just in case anyone was going to stay up all night, poll will close 8pm not 12am.

Cocodrillo,you know me too well. Punctuality has lapsed in this household since nippers arrived. But I am going to start this new school term with utmost effort and post on time. Watch me...

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morningpaper · 29/09/2008 21:52

oooh it is a three-horse race

lemurtamer · 30/09/2008 08:34

If the Ghost Road wins, would I spoil it if I read it before the other two? I have them ready on my shelf, (lovely editions with covers that make up one big picture, which attracted me like a shiny thing)
but haven't started yet, so don't want to plunge into the third if it's best not to.

marmitemad · 30/09/2008 10:25

lemurtamer - I was wondering the same thing

am very to admit that I haven't read any of the selection.

midnightexpress · 30/09/2008 11:47

Quick quick vote for the Farrell - I reallly want to read it.

georgimama · 30/09/2008 13:22

Just voted, but not for a popular choice so will have to see - shamefully have not read any of those books (not very au fait with modern novels) so doesn't really matter which it is.

Am very excited about our tutorial discussion, do they have York Notes on these? Do we have to do an essay?

amanda12 · 30/09/2008 16:56

I would like to join please. Have just voted.

ShinyPinkShoes · 30/09/2008 19:52

I'm in too- very excited about Oscar & Lucinda, though it looks as though it has a slim chance of being chosen !!

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TillyBookClub · 30/09/2008 20:00

Our poll is now officially closed and our Booker of Bookers is....THE GHOST ROAD. Pat Barker has won by a whisker, edging past Farrell's The Siege of Krishnapur.

Beg, borrow or order a copy and see you in a few weeks for the Book of the Month chat on Tues 28 October. I'll keep you posted on the author Q&A.

midnight, keen to read Siege of Krishnapur too. Think we should do a 'Best of the Rest' selection where all the ones that came second in Bookclub polls get to have another chance.

lemurtamer, I've only read Regeneration, not the second book, but people have said its okay to read in mixed order (though if do read all three, you will then have to be class swot and tell everyone what is what)

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