Monday, August 27, 2012

Voting

I couldn't get the blogspot poll to work so I found a website that allowed me to create a poll.  We are up and running and voting for October is now available! :)

Saturday, August 25, 2012

Technical Difficulties

For whatever reason, I am unable to add a poll at this time.  I will continue to check back and try to add the poll so voting can get started.  If the problem has not been resolved soon then I will let you know and we can vote through post comments.  In the meantime, hold tight. I'm working on it.

October Book Choices

The choices for October's book are in.  As previously mentioned, with the expressed interest in reading JK Rowling's new book it was automatically used as one of the choices.  The other choice was determined by using the random generator and I took the first book on the list.  Here they are.

City of Bones
by Cassandra Clare

When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder -- much less a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. Then the body disappears into thin air. It's hard to call the police when the murderers are invisible to everyone else and when there is nothing -- not even a smear of blood -- to show that a boy has died. Or was he a boy?
This is Clary's first meeting with the Shadowhunters, warriors dedicated to ridding the earth of demons. It's also her first encounter with Jace, a Shadowhunter who looks a little like an angel and acts a lot like a jerk. Within twenty-four hours Clary is pulled into Jace's world with a vengeance, when her mother disappears and Clary herself is attacked by a demon. But why would demons be interested in ordinary mundanes like Clary and her mother? And how did Clary suddenly get the Sight? The Shadowhunters would like to know. . . . Exotic and gritty, exhilarating and utterly gripping, Cassandra Clare's ferociously entertaining fantasy takes readers on a wild ride that they will never want to end.

The Casual Vacancy
by JK Rowling

 When Barry Fairweather dies unexpectedly in his early forties, the little town of Pagford is left in shock.
Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty façade is a town at war.
Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils…Pagford is not what it first seems.
And the empty seat left by Barry on the town’s council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen. Who will triumph in an election fraught with passion, duplicity and unexpected revelations?

Voting will last through September 2.  Happy Reading. :)