Hello everyone,

Our next Official Book Club event is coming up on Monday, September 20th. We will be discussing Iain M. Banks' novel, Consider Phlebas, which was the very first of Banks' CULTURE novels. This is a sci-fi story that features a very interesting story as well as social and political elements that should generate a great discussion.

Legolas has posted his review of the book <a href="http://www.readandfindout.com/books/messageboard/146225/">here</a>. If you want to participate, and this is a good one so please participate, you'll want to get started reading the book soon. Hopefully, you are already a Banks fan, or will be intrigued by the review. Get the book and get started!

Second order of business:

It is time to start nominating books that you'd like to read for the December/January book club. Any book is open to being nominated, though we'd appreciate a lot of sci-fi & fantasy options. So reply to this thread with nominations (Title & Author please). The books with the most nominations will the final list that people can vote on.

So, if there is just something you'd love to read and discuss, or something you think others should really read and discuss it with you, now is your chance to let us know about it.

I'll leave the nomination thread open for a while, at least a week. If we have a lot of nominations at that point, I'll close it down. If not... shame on you all.