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November Book Club Nominations
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It's that time of the month again (a little late actually but with Halloween and work it's been a little hectic ) when we pick another book to read for the book club. So, I'll take the first three nominations this time, since we have a little less time. The only rule is that we don't do series, so for example, if we've read one book in a series, you can't nominate any other books in the series. Otherwise we'd be stuck reading all the Harry Potter and Twilight books and we'd never get to read anything else. So, let the nominating begin. __________________
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The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
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Alright, great. We have one nomination. Two more to go.
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I actually haven't read this one, but I'm going ahead and nominating it, if that's okay. I'm actually going to read it next. It sounds intriguing!
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Alright, now we have two. Come on, someone has to have a favorite book they want to nominate this time around.
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Looking for Alibrandi - Melina Marchetta
Josephine Alibrandi is a second generation Italian Australian completing her last year of high school. She is the School Vice-Captain of St Martha's in Sydney. Josie learns to overcome the narrow minded social and racial bigotry of people like Ivy Lloyd (Poison Ivy) and Carly Bishop. Josie reacts angrily to derogatory terms like wog and ethnic. She ultimately learns to have pride in her heritage and by the end of the novel is proud to say I'm Australian with Italian blood flowing rapidly through my veins. The absence of her father for Josie's first sixteen years means she has been heavily influenced by two powerful and strong women: her mother Christina and her grandmother Katia (Nonna). Josie unravels Nonna's deepest secret, which is the adultery she committed with her Australian lover, Marcus. Josephine's father, Michael Andretti, visits and despite Josie's initial anger at his presence, he becomes extremely close to her and her to him. Friends such as Sera, Anna and Lee influence Josie's choices throughout her last year. A greater influence comes from her boyfriend Jacob Coote, and her crush, John Barton, whose suicide has a great emotional impact on her. The story is Josephine's reflection in her final year at high school and the narrative style is first person. I studied this at school years ago and i loved it so much that i read it cover to cover in about 3 days which is fast for me, it normally takes me week/months to finish book. __________________
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Excellent. We have our three books so everyone needs to come in and vote for their favorite. Our choices are:
The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins Cracks by Sheila Kohler Looking for Alibrandi - Melina Marchetta __________________
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The Hunger Games. Hopefully my copy will be in from the library...
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The Hunger Games
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Cracks
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The hunger games sounds inviting
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Alright, The Hunger Games is in the lead with three votes, followed by Cracks with one vote. But there's still lots of time to vote. I'm going to go ahead and leave the voting open until Monday, November 2nd, since we started the nomination and voting process so late this month.
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Looking for Alibrandi
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The Hunger Games.
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The Hunger Games -- 4
Cracks -- 1 Looking for Alibrandi -- 1 __________________
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