<html><body><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>Hello reading group;</div><div> </div><div>Two books I am interested in: </div><div>Time Machine & War of The Worlds - HG Wells; as previously mentioned, for historical interest.<br></div><div>The Dark Side of the Sun, a science fiction novel by Terry Pratchett. I have not read this but I enjoy Pratchett's more "fantasy" novels and I am interested in one closer to "science fiction" </div><div> </div><div>Wes Brodsky,<br>“Ornithology is not a bird.”</div><div><br>On June 5, 2020 at 1:42 PM, Boogalouis <boogalouis@gmail.com> wrote:<br><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div class="msg-quote" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" data-mce-style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div class=""><span style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif;" class="" data-mce-style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif;">Below is the link for joining tonight’s Cats Cradle discussion. 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Nomination process is decided based on number of attendees. </div><div class="">Using Survey Monkey, everyone receives a link by email that allows them to rank the books from 1 (most like to read and discuss) to 12 (least like to read and discuss) </div><div class="">Top 4 books are chosen. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Below are the books that have been nominated, but not chosen, since July of 2019. Think of 1 or 2 books, regardless of if they're on the list below, that you would like to read and discuss. </div><span class=""><ul class=""><li class="">A Memory Called Empire - Arkady Martine </li><li class="">Ancestral Night by Elizabeth Bear </li><li class="">Children of Blood and Bone - Tomi Adeyemi </li><li class="">Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks</li><li class="">Lovecraft Country Matt Ruff</li><li class="">Magic for Liars - Sarah Gailey </li><li class="">Planetfall by Emma Newman</li><li class="">Red Rising by Pierce Brown</li><li class="">Starfish by Peter Watts </li><li class="">Stories of Your Life and Others - Ted Chiang </li><li class="">Terminal Alliance - Jim C. Hines </li><li class="">The Etched City - K. J. Bishop </li><li class="">The Illustrated Man - Ray Bradbury </li><li class="">The Last Wish - Andrzej Sapkowski </li><li class="">The Only Harmless Great Thing - Brook Bolander </li><li class="">The Priory of The Orange Tree - Samantha Shannon </li><li class="">The Sparrow - Mary Doria Russell </li><li class="">Time Machine & War of The Worlds - HG Wells </li></ul></span><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div dir="auto" style="color: #000000; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="" data-mce-style="color: #000000; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="" data-mce-style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="color: #000000; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Louis</div><div style="color: #000000; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br class=""></div><div style="color: #000000; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">The bastard child of absurdity and the sublime.</div><div style="color: #000000; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br class=""></div><div style="color: #000000; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Sent from my MBP, Lepha</div></div></div></div><br class=""><div class="_stretch"><span class="body-text-content">_______________________________________________<br>reading-group mailing list<br><a href="mailto:reading-group@lists.nesfa.org" data-mce-href="mailto:reading-group@lists.nesfa.org">reading-group@lists.nesfa.org</a><br><a href="https://listsmgt.nesfa.org/mailman/listinfo/reading-group" data-mce-href="https://listsmgt.nesfa.org/mailman/listinfo/reading-group">https://listsmgt.nesfa.org/mailman/listinfo/reading-group</a><br></span></div></div></blockquote></div></body></html>