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    Sign up here if you'd like to have the responsibility of choosing one of our Book Club picks! Everyone's welcome to join the club, but one member per month will be responsible for choosing a book, so feel free to pass on that aspect if you wish - we will go in alphabetical order.

    Members and books so far:

    A*O - March, The Ghost, Robert Harris
    McJag - April, My Booky Wook, Russell Brand
    Mel1973 - May, The School of Essential Ingredients, Erica Bauermeister
    Rondette - June,
    Sparkly - July, The Darkest Evening Of The Year, Dean Koontz
    Sputnik - August, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Díaz
    SVZ - September,
    Tati - October,

    March's book, to be discussed beginning April 1st:

    The Ghost, by Robert Harris
    , A*O's pick
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    ooh can I join in? :-)

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    And me!
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    List on 5 March:


    A*O - The Ghost, Robert Harris
    McJag
    Mel1973
    Rondette
    Sparkly - The Darkest Evening Of The Year, Dean Koonz
    Sputnik
    Tati

    Add your name and book choice here! Let's hope we can get this thing running on track third time around!

    @ Tati - I nominate you as Queen Of The Book Club (serves you right for being a Mod). Your decisions are final.

    Also, it would be great if Pickers could list their book picks ASAP so we can order and read in advance if necessary. I have to order all my books from Amazon.com because book prices in Australia are absolutely outrageous. It's much cheaper to order them online from the US and have then delivered half way across the world believe it or not. Lord knows what the carbon footprint is!
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    I'll join

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    Quote Originally Posted by A*O View Post
    A*O - The Ghost, Robert Harris
    McJag
    Mel1973
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    Rondette
    Sparkly - The Darkest Evening Of The Year, Dean Koonz
    Sputnik
    SVZ
    Tati
    Mel1973 - The School of Essential Ingredients - Erica Bauermeister

    And yes, we need to get the list together of reading material. So - A*O is March with The Ghost
    McJag is April (pick a damned book already)
    and I am May with The School of Essential Ingredients by Erica Bauermeister.
    They're both proud drunks, they're both proud sluts and they're both proud wearers of thirsty weaves. They both probably think that the other one is swallowing up the entire world's supply of vodka, peen and yellow weaves. Michael K (re Brandi & Chelsea)
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    Muahahaha, I'm totally nominating Anathem, by Neal Stephenson. It's huge, but I'm not up till October so it should work out ok.

    @ Tati - I nominate you as Queen Of The Book Club (serves you right for being a Mod). Your decisions are final.
    Gah! Nooooooooez!

    Well, I can sticky and edit the thread, anyway. I'm coo wit dat.
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    Actually, maybe I'll change my choice - it's only available in hardcover until 2010 and quite huge and expensive. Something Canuckian perhaps?
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    McJag needs to pick a book, yo! *looks for her whip*
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    OK,OK!
    I select My Booky Wook: A Memoir of Sex,Drugs and Stand-Up. By Russell Brand.
    (The review are great. Love him or hate him he discusses dark subjects, but according to the reviews, makes it laugh out loud funny)
    I really want Finger Lickin Fifteen (Stephanie Plum) but that is not out until June.
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    so is this still going on? i had to sit out the april book because i was travelling and couldn't order it in time. but if we still have a club, my pick is The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Díaz.
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    ^ Added it. I also had to sit out March's book as it was the last month of the school year... I'm taking six classes... and, well, you can imagine. Though I may just pick it up this week since the discussion hasn't begun yet. I'm definitely still up for the club.
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    Then let's agree to start the discussion on Monday. Dammit, I have the book ... I just haven't read more than the first 5 pages yet. Hopefully, over the weekend I'll knock it right out.
    They're both proud drunks, they're both proud sluts and they're both proud wearers of thirsty weaves. They both probably think that the other one is swallowing up the entire world's supply of vodka, peen and yellow weaves. Michael K (re Brandi & Chelsea)
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    what the hell happened to our book club?
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    it died. i didn't finish any of them... I bought the first three and 2 weeks ago (without reading them) loaned them to some jackass at work
    They're both proud drunks, they're both proud sluts and they're both proud wearers of thirsty weaves. They both probably think that the other one is swallowing up the entire world's supply of vodka, peen and yellow weaves. Michael K (re Brandi & Chelsea)
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