Our October book has been selected!

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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):

TimestampPlease select your FIRST CHOICEPlease select your SECOND CHOICEPlease select your THIRD CHOICE
9/22/2014 8:15:06The Book ThiefThe Book ThiefA Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
9/22/2014 8:39:45A Long Way Down by Nick HornbyThe Girl on Paper by Guillaume MussoThe Host by Stephenie Meyer
9/22/2014 10:13:25The Host by Stephenie MeyerThe Book ThiefA Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
9/22/2014 13:39:09A Long Way Down by Nick HornbyThe Girl on Paper by Guillaume MussoThe Host by Stephenie Meyer
9/22/2014 14:09:19A Long Way Down by Nick HornbyThe Book ThiefReturn to Killybegs by Sorj Chalandon
9/22/2014 18:09:58The Book ThiefThe Girl on Paper by Guillaume MussoA Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
9/22/2014 20:33:24A Long Way Down by Nick HornbyThe Book ThiefThe Host by Stephenie Meyer
9/23/2014 9:31:22The Host by Stephenie MeyerA Long Way Down by Nick HornbyThe Book Thief

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