“If a conspiracy is defined as two or more people getting together to plot an illegal, secret or immoral action, then we can all agree that there are plenty of conspiracies.”
“It was a quarter to ten. I was sipping coffee but by then my body was making its own caffeine.  I still couldn’t allow myself to believe. Finally, at 9:47, the call came. ‘I want you to be my Secretary of State.’
“So why did you get married if you didn’t want kids?” asked the new dad, the husband of one of my friends.Huh? “Love . . . companionship,” I blurted.”
“The Truth will prevail.” Jan Hus, fifteenth-century Bohemian religious reformer “It was my belief that the truth would prevail, but I did not expect it to prevail unaided.” Edvard Benes, Czechoslovak foreign minister and president

With 6 votes, The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver.

Sad losers are:

The Disappeared by Kim Echlin (4 votes)
The Women: A Novel by TC Boyle (4 votes)
Ravens by George Dawes Green (0 votes)

You have 10 days to get the book.

Reading begins on the the 25th of February.

You have two weeks to read.

Discussion begins on the 11th of March.

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With 11 votes

Sad losers are:
The Colorful Apocalypse: Journeys in Outsider Art 3 votes
Sense and Sensibilty and Sea Monsters 6 votes
No One Belongs Here More Than You 9 votes

You have 10 days to get the book.

You have two weeks to read.

DISCUSSION OPENS ON 10th January on Stitch and Book on Ravelry.

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VOTING ENDS: FRIDAY 25th November at 10PM (BST) (Scroll to end for poll)

“Missionary Mary had a vision of my father,” says Beverly Finster.”

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“The family of Dashwood had been settled in Sussex since before the Alteration, when the waters of the world grew cold and hateful to the sons of man, and darkness moved on the face of the deep.”

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“It still counts, even though it happened when he was unconscious.”

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“She loved her country. She hated zombies.”

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With 14 votes

Sad losers are:
Scepticism Inc 11 votes
Lonely Werewolf Girl 7 votes
Wise Children 6 votes

You have 10 days to get the book.

Reading begins on Monday 5th October

You have two weeks to read.

DISCUSSION OPENS ON Monday 19th October on Stitch and Book on Ravelry.

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“I climbed Mount Everest eighty thousand years ago. I am the last supermarket trolley alive. Aloha.”

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“Kalix was lost. Tired, nervous, unable to focus, and lost.”

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“Good morning! Let me introduce myself. My name is Dora Chance. Welcome to the wrong side of the tracks.”

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“Dr Strauss says I shoud rite down what I think and remembir and evrey thing that happins to me from now on.”

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Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner…The House of Sleep with 26 votes

 Sad losers are:

Winterton Blue    9 votes
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society   24 votes
Divas Don’t Knit   16 votes

You have 9 days to get the book.
Reading begins on Thursday 3 September 2009

You have two weeks to read.
DISCUSSION OPENS ON Thursday 17 September 2009

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• Discussion of the book before the official thread is forbidden (us Bookettes will be watching you and our needles are sharp).
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