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Just a reminder that we're taking recs for October! Remember that it's one rec per person and you need to include a short description of the work along with the title and author.le can read it and if it's readily available

I'm also thinking about doing something a little different for these next few books. Not a lot of people read The Plague Stone, or at least, not a lot of people talked about it. Here are two things I'm going to do. First, I'm going to try to gather information about the availability of books - I know I didn't end up getting The Plague Stone because I couldn't find it at my library or at the huge chain bookstore I looked at. Second, if I do read the book, I'm going to try to generate some discussion questions to spark discussion! If I don't end up reading it, I'll see if I can get someone else to do that, so we'll have a discussion starter.

One good starting place for availability is the simple question - is it available at the library? I'm going to see if the books that are recommended are available at a) my local library, which is fairly extensive (I live inside Indianapolis city limits) and b) at major booksellers such as Barnes & Noble. (If you are reccing a book and already have the latter info, let me know!) If I can't find a book that's easy for me to get without paying a ton of money, I'm not going to vote for it. I know I'm not the only one who had an issue with availability for the last month, so let's try to make it as easy as possible for everyone to be able to enjoy the books we choose :)

What was this month's book again?

Southern Fire by Juliet E. McKenna.

nayrt but darn it, it looks like the local library has 4 books by her & none of them are that one

gah, I hope we don't have the same availability issue we had with The Plague Stone. I didn't think about it at all (first two books were super easy to get) until partway through August. :|

Anon who brought up the availability issue with The Plague Stone here: looks like my libraries (I have a few options) have eight books by Juliet McKenna between them, including the other three books in the series... but not Southern Fire. Oops.

man. that is not promising.

well it looks like my library system has two of the books in the series, but not Southern Fire. Here's hoping Barnes and Noble pans out this time. no time to look it up right now tho

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/southern-fire-juliet-e-mckenna/1007047605?ean=9780765352750

Yay! :D

Shouldn't be too bad for me, looks like the library system in a different city that's not too far has it, and I'll probably go there sometime in the next month anyway.

I got a copy of Southern Fire secondhand. The summary looked interesting but then I flicked through it when it arrived and the prose starts with a pregnant woman, I think? It put me off as that's not my thing. I'll read it anyway. What date do discussions start?

I find it hard to find out what the book is each month for book club or when the discussions are. I think it was supposed to be Sundays? But when I look there's often nothing on the FS Sunday posts.

Wait. You'll...stop reading something if it involves a pregnant person?

So... women cannot be pregnant in literature? And presumably that means guys cannot be fathers. And no one can be motivated by feelings of unborn children?

There is a lotta literature you are gonna have to give up on then there, nonny.

It's supposed to be the last day of the month. In August, that happened to be Sunday. You are right, though; that's not a very active day.

We could try to set a specific date for this month's book that will work better for people? The last day of September is a Tuesday. (I wouldn't mind shifting it a little anyway as I probably will have to work that night, but we'll see)

crap, someone replied and I just noticed an error. the bit after the phrase "title and author" isn't supposed to be there at the end of the first paragraph - not sure how it got there.

Suggestions for October:

Hyperion by Dan Simmons
Sci-fi tale with a structure echoing The Canterbury Tales, following a group of pilgrims sharing their stories as they travel.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperion_(Simmons_novel)

The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
Swashbuckling fantasy tale about a "Gentleman Bastard" thief.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lies_of_Locke_Lamora

One per customer, anon. Which one would you like to rec? Please include a description - linking to the wiki article on the book doesn't count, I'm afraid ^^;

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