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Our October book has been selected!

8 voters expressed their wishes for our October book (not everyone participated, obviously, but enough did) and the following book had the most 1st choice votes by a pretty clear margin: A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby LINK ON AMAZON: http://amzn.to/1ynVQFY  We need a host for our October meeting, so if you are interested in hosting, please email me. Here are the stats that came out of our voting process: TOTAL VOTES A Long Way Down = 8 The Book Thief = 7 (should be 6, we had a double voter) The Host = 5 The Girl on Paper = 3 Return to Killybegs = 1 Here's the raw data if anyone's interested (someone didn't follow the instructions and voted twice for the same book, but oh well): Timestamp Please select your FIRST CHOICE Please select your SECOND CHOICE Please select your THIRD CHOICE 9/22/2014 8:15:06 The Book Thief The Book Thief A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby 9/22/2014 8:39:45 A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby The Girl on Paper by Guillaume Musso The Hos

October meeting and book choice

Hello, everyone! We have to choose a book for October 20th, so here are the options. Please click on this link below and it will bring you to a poll so you can vote for your first, second, and third choices. Descriptions of each book are below the link here on this page. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1eFquNCwypoLQQPhyKrgjbSv3mPrgN77Uji318BGxMVw/viewform?usp=send_form BOOKS: A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby (available as a movie) For disgraced TV presenter Martin Sharp the answer's pretty simple: he has, in his own words, 'pissed his life away'. And on New Year's Eve he's going to end it all . . . but not, as it happens, alone. Because first single-mum Maureen, then eighteen-year-old Jess and lastly American rock-god JJ turn up and crash Martin's private party. They've stolen his idea - but brought their own reasons. Yet it's hard to jump when you've got an audience queuing impatiently behind you. A few heated words and some slices if