Monday 19 June 2017

Rachel Reads Randomly - Vote #66


 
Thank you everyone for your input last time. The results of the last vote were:

1 Votes - I Am The Secret Footballer by Anon
2 Votes - Cream Teas, Traffic Jams and Sunburn: The Great British Holiday by Brian Viner
3 Votes -  Bad Money by Louise Patten
8 Votes -  A Falling Friend by Sue Featherstone and Susan Pape
9 Votes - While We Were Watching Downton Abbey by Wendy Wax

Thank you to everyone that took part last week. Until I counted I honestly thought A Falling Friend had won, but it turns out that if you put the name of a popular TV programme into a title of a book, people are interested in the book! And thankfully I did really enjoy it, although I still haven't watched an episode ever! 

As far as I'm aware its the summer solstice this week, which to me means half the year has gone already. So what better way to celebrate than this week having a selection of books that were released in the first 6 months of 2017! 

Below is my initial theory for this feature, and then a bit further, what you are all waiting for... This weeks's vote! Enjoy!

I am also awful at deciding what book to read next, as I often have about 10 titles or authors jumping into my brain at any time, shouting at me to read them, and I tend to worry I have made the wrong decision while reading a perfectly good book. I am hoping this will save me having to make at least 1 choice a week, while possibly providing a review to the site of a book you all either love or are curious about yourselves. 

So what I am proposing, is my lovely loyal readers of Rachel's Random Reads, select one book for me to read a week, and I will post the review the following week. 

This week's random numbers are...

And the books these numbers correspond to are...


So the 5 choices with my gut feeling responses are:

20 - Almost a Bride by Jo Watson - Having read the other two books by Jo Watson in this series I am so eager to get stuck into this one, which is set in Mauritius. 
33 - Practice Makes Perfect by Penny Parkes - This is the sequel to Penny Parkes first book which I thoroughly enjoyed and this is another book that I'm looking forward to reading
37 - Breaking All The Rules by Rachael Richey - Despite this year not taking on too many requests direct from authors, this is one that caught my eye and that I would like to read! 
38 - Amber Green Takes Manhattan by Rosie Nixon - Second sequel of this weeks selection, this time to The Stylist. I found the first book to be fun and easy going and very interested to see what Amber Green gets up to this time around. 
43 - The Apple Orchard by Veronica Henry - This is a short story release by an always popular author earlier this year. Thinking about it, I've not read a short story for ages! 

Ok I'm excited by this selection, and I hope you will be too. I know that 2 of the books aren't out until the 29th June, others are ones I've been meaning to find a gap for and just don't know when I'll get there. I desperately want to read all of these books, so all I can ask is...please don't leave me with a tie, as I have no way of deciding at the moment between any of them!

Pick your favourite or the one you most want me to review, or just the one you are curious about, and leave me a comment below, before midnight on Wednesday. 

I look forward to seeing what I will be reading over the weekend, courtesy of you all. 

And authors, if its your book up on this feature, feel free to take part, vote for yourself, or stir up excitement amongst your fans! 

The explanation if you haven't seen the feature before. 


How is this going to work?

Every Monday, I am going to have a post like this, which is going to have some choices on it. I am planning on using random.org to select 7 random numbers, to coincide with my spreadsheet of unread books.  

I will from that produce a list of hopefully 5 books, I reserve the right to veto any books, and will give reasons for them, if it occurs.

I will take screenshots and post them, of the chosen books, and also give you my instinctive reactions to the choices (without checking blurbs or any other info about them, which could be interesting as there are probably many forgotten about books on my spreadsheet!). 

Your task is to post a comment on this post, with the book you would like me to read this week. At midnight on Wednesday I will take a tally of the votes and the book with the most, I will read and review for the following Monday, where you will also get a new choice post. 

In the event of a tie, I will chose which one appeals most, for the Monday review, and possibly try and read and review the other to appear when I can. 

I am hoping this will provide some variety to the books appearing, and will let me potentially read or discover some great authors that I have wanted to read but not got around to yet.

23 comments:

  1. I'll vote for Breaking All The Rules because it looks a little bit different (and because I'm pretty certain you'll make time to read all the others anyway!)
    Jane

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  2. I vote Almost a Bride by Jo Watson because it is set in Mauritius 🇲🇺

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  3. My vote is for Breaking all the Rules as it's one that I wouldn't have heard about without this post and am curious about.
    I love Jo Watson's series though. I so hope she's going to write the stories of Stormy-Rain and Val as well. Out of the three published so far, Almost a Bride is my least favourite though. But I still think you would enjoy it.
    By the way, I loved your Chances Fortnight. All the guestposts by authors were really interesting, I can't believe the lives some of them have led.

    Nathalie

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  4. The Apple Orchard. I had my first kiss in an apple orchard when I was a young girl.

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    Emma Crowley‏ @emthebookworm 55m55 minutes ago
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    Didn't vote last week as didn't know any of the books. Great selection this week. I'll go for Penny Parkes.

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  6. I think if I was absolutely forced to choose I'd go for Breaking all the Rules - just sounds a bit different. But I do so love Veronica Henry...

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  7. How on earth am I meant to help you this week! I would go with all of them but if you are forcing me to go with gut instinct it has to be 33 - Practice Makes Perfect by Penny Parkes

    *BEATS* :)

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    BookaholicDee‏ @BookaholicDee 10h10 hours ago
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    Oh well, I tried 😄. I'm voting for Practice Makes Perfect!

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    Morton S. Gray‏ @MortonSGray 10h10 hours ago
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    Practice makes perfect!

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    Joanne 😊‏ @Tazer129 10h10 hours ago
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    Another vote for Practice Makes Perfect 😊

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    Viv Writes‏ @VivWrites 10h10 hours ago
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    Veronica Henry's The Apple Orchard looks so cute: the butterflies and the dog!!

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    JasmineSparksAuthor‏ @J_Sparks_Author 9h9 hours ago
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    If it has a #dog it gets my vote. #amwriting #mustread #books #holidayread #strong #femalecharacters #lifeaffirming <-- Veronica Henry

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    Jess Barratt‏ @jessbarratt88 6h6 hours ago
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    We say Practice Makes Perfect!!

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    Suze Lavender‏ @SuzeLavender 5h5 hours ago
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    The Apple Orchard, I love Veronica Henry's books.

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    Ella Louise Creasey‏ @kentlass123 3h3 hours ago
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    1,2 or 3 xxx <--- JW, PP or RR

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    Mary c Wallis‏ @MaryCWallis 1h1 hour ago
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    Apple Orchard - but that's only because I have an affinity for apples :-)

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  17. Breaking All the Rules is very good so I vote for that. The cover isn't brilliant but don't let that put you off.

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  18. Breaking all the Rules. The title intrigues me - what rules are being broken? Looks interesting.

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  19. Almost a Bride by Jo Watson, love to travel to Mauritius 😊

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  20. From Twitter:

    Jo Baines‏ @Biggestdog 2h2 hours ago
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    Jo Baines Retweeted Rachel Gilbey
    Confess to being A Veronica Henry fan

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  21. From Twitter:

    Sherna Khambatta‏ @ShernaKhambatta 44m44 minutes ago
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    Replying to @gilbster1000 @katieoliver01
    The apple orchard

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  22. Veronica Henry never disappoints so I'm going to vote for her book Rachel.

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  23. Breaking All the Rules because it sounds interesting and it's good to take a chance on a new indie author occasionally

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