Suggestions and poll for May-August 2008

[Russophile]

Crap! The only one available at my Barnes and Noble is the hard bound they have to ship. The paperback isn't available until June 24!
I might have to take a trip to Powells!!

[norwegianne]

Originally Posted by Russophile

Crap! The only one available at my Barnes and Noble is the hard bound they have to ship. The paperback isn't available until June 24!
I might have to take a trip to Powells!!

Unless you are dedicated to owning the copy, you might consider checking out the public library and see if they have it, or can reserve it for you via inter-library loan. And then maybe buy the paperback if you want it in your permanent collection? Personally, I am going that route - because I want to participate in the discussion, but would rather have the paperback on my shelves in the long run.

[LadyCat]

I have the first two books on the way - I managed to find the Princess Margaret book used for less than $20 (including shipping) and it should arrive by month's end. Hopefully the "excellent" condition stated proves to be true. I've never bought used bocks on line before so this is unchartered waters for me.

I am curious to see what the 3rd book will be since we currently have a four-way tie. Lots of time yet for that tie to be broken I suppose.

Cat

[Elspeth]

We've got the list of books for May-August in this thread. I think some more votes came in after we'd made the decision based on the earlier votes. Also, one reason for this selection was that, in order to limit the number of suggested books to something workable, we're going to specify two or three topics for each six-month period and ask for book suggestions to stick to those topics. It so happens that some of the most popular books in this poll fell quite neatly into two topics, since there are two biographies of modern princesses (or unhappy princesses) and two books about royalty in the first world war.

Now that this set of books have been chosen, the poll is closed.

Sometime in the next couple of months, we'll be coming up some topics for the September - December books and asking for suggestions.

[candygirl_68]

the book club is one of the best ideas the admins ever had!

[Elspeth]

The admins didn't have this idea; it was ysbel's idea based on a conversation in the British forum with some members who were interested in a group read of a couple of books.

So you have ysbel to thank for this!

[HRH Kerry]

I received my book yesterday. I've only leafed through the pages to look at the pictures. I'll probably start reading next week.

[jcbcode99]

Mine is on order! I'm looking forward to the discussions we will have

[Avicenna]

Aristocracy and the Modern World by Ellis Wasson

A study of the traditional European ruling classe during the last two centuries ... the description of Amazon sounds interesting ... and it is easily available, not too expensive.

[Elspeth]

Avicenna, we'll be posting a new thread at the beginning of June to ask for suggestions for the next round (September to December), but we'll be asking for suggestions for books on specific topics so as to cut down on the total number of books to go into the polls.

Your suggestion might not fit under the proposed topics for the next round, but I hope you'll put it forward next time we're asking for suggestions for books on recent European history because it really does look interesting. The only possible drawback is that it's rather expensive.

[Elspeth]

I think according to Leslie, they were just good friends; apparently Leonie Leslie was also friendly with the Duchess of Connaught.

ETA: Now we have a new poll for September-December, I'm closing this thread. Feel free to go and vote in the new poll, which is here:

http://www.theroyalforums.com/forums...8-a-17520.html