Some Interesting Ideas for our NEXT book.

[crashtestwoman]

Hi babes, just been doing some research and have found some very interesting books for our next sojourn into the world of literature.

Peruse and tell me what you think. :)

Reflex
By: Steven Gould

ISBN-13: 9780812578546
ISBN: 0812578546

Format: Paperback
Date Published: April 2008

From the acclaimed author of "Jumper" comes "a fun and fast-paced novel" (Charles de Lint). A mysterious group has kidnapped a teleport to use his abilities. His wife unexpectedly shares his teleporting ability and may be the only one able to rescue him.

Unavailable Dymocks Australia
Angus and Robertson online price $15.95
Booktopia Online Bookshop price $12.95




Book Thief, The
By: Markus ZusakISBN-13: 9780330423304
ISBN: 0330423304

Format: Paperback
Date Published: March 2008

Description:
It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still. Liesel Meminger and her younger brother are being taken by their mother to live with a foster family outside Munich. Liesel's father was taken away on the breath of a single, unfamiliar word - Kommunist - and Liesel sees the fear of a similar fate in her mother's eyes. On the journey, Death visits the young boy, and notices Liesel. It will be the first of many near encounters. By her brother's graveside, Liesel's life is changed when she picks up a single object, partially hidden in the snow. It is The Gravedigger's Handbook, left there by accident, and it is her first act of book thievery. So begins a love affair with books and words, as Liesel, with the help of her accordion-playing foster father, learns to read. Soon she is stealing books from Nazi book-burnings, the mayor's wife's library, wherever there are books to be found. But these are dangerous times. When Liesel's foster family hides a Jewish fist-fighter in their basement, Liesel's world is both opened up, and closed down. THE BOOK THIEF is a story about the power of words to make worlds. In superbly crafted writing that burns with intensity, award-winning author Markus Zusak has given us one of the most enduring stories of our time

Dymocks online price $19.95
Angus and Robertson online price $24.95
Booktopia Online Bookshop price $17.95

Bobbie Faye's
(kinda, sorta, not exactly)
Family Jewels
It had been a whole freaking month since Bobbie Faye Sumrall had blown up anything or been shot at, and that was almost a new record. Then her diva cousin Francesca waltzed up to where she manned the gun counter in Ce Ce's Cajun Outfitter and Feng Shui Emporium and everything just went to hell. Fast.

Francesca's mom has disappeared with exceptionally valuable diamonds swiped from Francesca's dad (difficult marriage) so of course Francesca broadcast to every insane psycho (family included) that Bobbie Faye could recover the ersatz family jewels.

Accused of one man's murder, Bobbie Faye's on the run as an unintentional Pied Piper to a rabid band of thieves. She has to find the diamonds, figure out the motives of the dead sexy FBI agent who's pressing her for more than just the jewels, all while racing to side-step her steamy (and steamed) detective ex-boyfriend before the deadline arrives and the diamonds disappear.

Bobbie Faye Sumrall is back in fighting form in this second installment of crazy, wacky adventure through Cajun country.

St. Martin's Trade Paperback, May 2008, ISBN-13: 978-0312354503
Unavailable Dymocks Australia
Unavailable Angus and Robertson.
Booktopia online bookshop price $18.95


The Road
By: Cormac McCarthy

ISBN-13: 9780330447546
ISBN: 0330447548

Format: Paperback
Date Published: June 2007

Description:
A father and his son walk alone through burned America, heading through the ravaged landscape to the coast. This is the profoundly moving story of their journey. "The Road" boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which two people, 'each the other's world entire', are sustained by love.

Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation.
$22.90 online price from Dymocks
$21.99 online price from Angus and Robertson.
Booktopia Bookshop price $20.99

I liked the Bobbie Faye's(kinda, sorta, not exactly)Family Jewels , sounded like fun. But I'll read whatever everyone else wants to read.

[zen]

wow Crashtestwoman.. i'm appreciative of your effort here.. :)

Reflex - i liked the movie Jumper, this book would be right for me..

Book Thief sounds interesting, altho i usually shy away from anything to do with Nazi Germany..

Family Jewels is the second in a series? even if we do not do this book in the Book Club, it's a series i might find for myself.. (crime fiction is my second favourite genre to read)

The Road does not sound like something i would read.. 'sustained by love' was it's death knoll..

thankyou... :)

[Stormy]

I'll read anything but if I suspect it won't be my cup of tea, I'll just borrow from the library. :yes:

I picked the last one :headh: so it's someone else's turn this time. The book club was Kerrie's idea so maybe she should pick the next one. :)

[kezabelle]

Stormy - I have a 10 week old baby! I just make suggestions and go with the flow LMAO Deb's taken the time to do some research so, Deb why don't you choose this time and I promise to make a choice some time in the future :)

[Stormy]

Okay Kerrie, sounds fair enough but I will hold you to it :P

Also I didn't want you to feel left out or anything, since you started the ball rolling and I just ran off with it. LMAO

[crashtestwoman]

oh noooooo...............I really didn't wanna choose I was only doing research on the puter about books to keep the damn kids off here. LOL.

Maybe I should try to find the book Family Jewels, it looks like it would be a funny one and I too would probably like to start collecting it.

Any hoo I'm leaving it in your hands and we will all ponder this week and make a decision and then start next week hey. That way we can start together and there is no argy bargy. LOL.

[Stormy]

Ok zen, I guess the book choosing falls to you :P

[zen]

:blink: huh? how did that happen? here i was, trying to keep a low profile.... and now you say i have to choose? nah.... surely not... LMAO


actually... i think crashtestwoman should choose after all her hard work..

i'll choose one further down the track.. promise.. :D

[susiq]

OK, I'm going to throw you all into a spin then! I personally only liked Family Jewels but noticed it's only available from Booktopia. happy to get it through there, it seems like it might be a bit of fun too.

Here's another one to think about:

Last Man Standing - David Baldacci


Seven seconds. That's all it took for Web London to lose everything: his friends, his team,
his reputation. Point man of the FBI's super-elite Hostage rescue Team, Web roared into a
blind alley towards a drug leader's lair, only to meet a high-tech, custom-designed ambush
that killed everyone around him. Coping with the blame-filled words of anguished widows
and the suspicions of colleagues, Web tries to put his life back together. To do so, he must
discover why he was the one man who lived through the ambush - and find the only other
person who came out of the alley alive... a ten-year-old boy who has since disappeared.

Acting on his instincts, Web believes he knows where the killer will strike next. Only this
time, he may not survive the attack. In this extraordinary new work, Baldacci uses his
unsurpassed storytelling skills to explore the essence of survival itself, as a conspiracy of
violence surrounds an FBI agent whose fate was to be the... last man standing

[miss kiki]

i liked them all except the jewels one. :hehe: BUT, i would read it if it was picked, because who knows, i might like it at the end. and i also do like the sound of the last man standing. :)

[Kekka]

But I'm only up to page 20 of the first book. ;( (Poor sad Kekka :hehe:)

[miss kiki]

that's ok kekk. i haven't received mine yet and i'm sure i'm going to rush read it now, lol. i've been restraining myself to go into the thread about the book. ahh! LOL.

[Kekka]

A little wager Kick? Five bucks says you finish before me!! :hehe:LMAO

[miss kiki]

haha, i know i'll finish first. :D

[Stormy]

actually... i think crashtestwoman should choose after all her hard work..

i'll choose one further down the track.. promise.. :D

Debby doesn't want to pick one, Kerrie doesn't want to pick one and now you don't want to pick one. LMAO

Here's another one to think about:

Last Man Standing - David Baldacci


Okay Susi, you win. By putting that post in you got to choose the next book so Last Man Standing it is. :P

[crashtestwoman]

Sounds like a good book. Will get it at the bookstore today. Thanks.:)

[miss kiki]

ok, i probably missed this, but about how long are we given to read a book before we start another one? and will there be like a start date to start reading the book that's chosen or whenever we get it we just read and then whoever takes forever or doesn't have the book in time will just have to hurry? LOL.
(sorry, not sure how a book club type thing goes really and maybe this was answered before. if it was, my apologies!)

[Stormy]

Kiki, the bookclub I belonged to at uni met once a month. We would have a month to read the book, then at the next meeting, we would discuss it and then choose another one. The majority of us were avid readers so it really wasn't a problem reading it within a month. :yes:

I had thought a similar concept would be applied here but it seemed that some thought a month was too long - it probably is if you read the book within two days like I did. This time it was a bit under a fortnight....I was going to open the discussion thread for The Stockmen on Monday but some people wanted to discuss it sooner than that and that is the only reason why I opened it sooner. :)

Perhaps we should stick to just one per month, give time for people to source the book and read it. Although how that will go in forum time is anyone's guess. :dk:

[kezabelle]

I'm happy with one per month - seems reasonable for most people. But we needed to have the next book now so we can read it nd discuss it for next month.

[redrobyn]

Reflex and The Road are the sort of books I would read, I can read a small paperback in one night, if I am really enjoying a book can polish it off in 2 days if I have the time to read it.

[miss kiki]

ok, thanks for the explanation stormy.

i think once a month would be better for me, but if it's not for the majority of you, then that's fine.
only because with the last book, i'm still waiting for it and i now have to catch up, which is no biggy, but what happens if i don't have the book again and someone needs to send me the book? it can take me 3 days to a month to read a book, depending how into it i am and how busy i am. so my only problem is when i start working..yikes! but i know i definitely want to be in this, BUT by all means, if a month is too long then fine. i'll do my best to catch up. :D

[zen]

Okay Susi, you win. By putting that post in you got to choose the next book so Last Man Standing it is. :P


YES! i'd second that choice! partly because i like that sort of stuff too, and because i actually have this book, and i have it in .lit format too, so i can read it easily onscreen as i prefer..

well done susiq..:D

[susiq]

Thanks girls - glad you went with my choice. I like David Baldacci - he's a good cheeky crime writer.

I hope this one lives up to that comment!

So we have a few weeks to read it then - so mid-June?

[ezmay]

I missed the last book because i never had the time and i didnt get my butt into gear early enough. This next book I will get and join in. When does it start?

[miss kiki]

this whole month of june ez. that way everyone has a month to get the book and read. :)