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First of all, a reminder: we are reading Para Handy by Neil Munro for July, specifically, if possible, this edition.

Secondly, I am taking recs for August! We have a half-dozen so far. I think I will keep recs open until Sunday or Monday and then put up the poll. TITLE AND AUTHOR required for the rec to be accepted.

Here are the ones we have so far:

The Turner Diaries by Andrew Macdonald*
The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans
Angelmass by Timothy Zahn
The Tin Princess by Phillip Pullman
Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys. by Viv Albertine
A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood

*This brings me to my question...

I'm not really comfortable accepting books that constitute hate speech for book club. I will include it if most of you guys want me to, since I did say any novel-length book was fair game. I really didn't expect this kind of thing to be included. Please let me know what you think. Again if this book were to somehow win I would not be comfortable reading it but I can't stop y'all.

I would strongly support not including it. I think it would be better to say that this is not the book club for anyone who considers that a deal breaker.

Thanks for your reply. I'm glad it's not just me who is uncomfortable with it (though not really surprised, heh).

I await more feedback.

The Pride of Chanur by CJ Cherryh.

Technically the first in the Chanur saga, this one stands alone well and is pretty accessible. Cherryh does the best aliens in the business, and Pyanfar is one of my favorite characters of all time.

Have you done any Octavia Butler yet? Specifically 'Dawn'? (It's the first in Lillith's Brood but I think it stands on its own) If not, then I rec that.

Seconded! I've been meaning to read that for a while.

I had to read that for a class years ago and oh my God. It's so good.

I don't participate in this book club, but I second anon's suggestion.

I suggest not including it, the same we switched the book before when jokingly Pounded in the Butt won the poll. This is supposed to be fun and I don't think it should be an option for the poll. You're running this for fun and I think we should avoid books that are outright hate speech. Not saying we should avoid books that make us think or are controversial in some other way, but this defeats the purpose of book club.

(June was crazy and I didn't get to read the book, sorry!)

I've read it (as part of a "read a banned book that you think will offend YOU" challenge) and I wanted a Silkwood shower afterward. So I vote for NOPE.

I'd like to rec His Majesty's Dragon, the first novel in the Temeraire series, by Naomi Novik. From TVTropes:

This Alternate History series sets out to answer a vital question that has intrigued historians for centuries: What would The Napoleonic Wars have been like if the countries involved fought them with dragons?

I originally read Temeraire when I was looking for books like the Aubrey-Maturin series and it's really cute and good.

I'm not really comfortable accepting books that constitute hate speech for book club.

Then I think that's all that needs to be said. There's nothing wrong with changing the rules if a situation comes up that you never envisioned when you originally wrote them.

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