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Hi everone,

The summer is approaching fast. Please join us as we read Kim right now.

We are going to read I, Claudius by Robert Graves in June.

For July's vote I took the last three month's votes and decided to use the runner's up. Just because they didn't win last time, doesn't mean they aren't good books.

I hope you all like the choices. :)

1. Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
Three Cups of Tea is the inspiring account of one man's campaign to build schools in the most dangerous, remote, and anti-American reaches of Asia
In 1993 Greg Mortenson was the exhausted survivor of a failed attempt to ascend K2, an American climbing bum wandering emaciated and lost through Pakistan’s Karakoram Himalaya. After he was taken in and nursed back to health by the people of an impoverished Pakistani village, Mortenson promised to return one day and build them a school. From that rash, earnest promise grew one of the most incredible humanitarian campaigns of our time—Greg Mortenson’s one-man mission to counteract extremism by building schools, especially for girls, throughout the breeding ground of the Taliban. Three Cups of Tea is at once an unforgettable adventure and the inspiring true story of how one man really is changing the world—one school at a time.

2. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
This novel is a soothsayer, warning of a future populated by non-readers and non-thinkers; a lost people with no sense of their history. At the same time it salutes those who dedicate their lives to the preservation and passing on of knowledge, and testifies to the quiet or passionate courage of the rebel with a cause. Fahrenheit also poses questions about the roles of government: Should it reflect the will of the people? Should government do the people's thinking for them?

3. King Solomon’s Mines by Richard Haggard
Touted by its 1885 publisher as “the most amazing story ever written,” King Solomon’s Mines was one of the bestselling novels of the nineteenth century. H. Rider Haggard’s thrilling saga of elephant hunter Allan Quatermain and his search for fabled treasure is more than just an adventure story in its vivid portrayal of the alliances and battles of white colonials and African tribesmen.

Yes books sure do accumulate. My mum always says they breed like rabbits. :) I'm definitely up for either three books, but I have a feeling that people are liking the older more "classic" type literature at the moment so King Solomon's Mines is right up there.

To everyone:
Are you enjoying the choices so far or is more variety needed?