https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sat, 18 Apr 2026 15:16:18 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/hb-book-club-poll-for-november-book-of-the-month#post-1151912 Tue, 15 Oct 2013 21:22:07 +0000 Mrs. High Heels 1151912@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Ooh I wasn't even going to do the book club cuz wasn't sure I could find time to read, but the 24-hr bookstore looks too intriguing to pass up! I voted for that one and if it wins I'll play!</p> <p>@mrsjazz: that's so cool!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/hb-book-club-poll-for-november-book-of-the-month#post-1151889 Tue, 15 Oct 2013 21:01:20 +0000 Ree723 1151889@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrsjazz: That's so cool! Harrowgate was the book I voted for and I will most definitely be reading it, even if it's not the book club winner (which doesn't look likely at this point). So awesome that your friend wrote it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/hb-book-club-poll-for-november-book-of-the-month#post-1151876 Tue, 15 Oct 2013 20:48:45 +0000 Bao 1151876@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrsjazz: oh my gosh how nice of her! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/hb-book-club-poll-for-november-book-of-the-month#post-1151859 Tue, 15 Oct 2013 20:37:36 +0000 mrsjazz 1151859@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Bao: @IRunForFun: @Running Elley: It is cool. I told her that her book was one of the choices and she said it made her day. :happy: If you guys do end up reading the book feel free to send questions/comments along to me and I will definitely share them with her because she said she'd love to talk to her readers. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/hb-book-club-poll-for-november-book-of-the-month#post-1151806 Tue, 15 Oct 2013 20:03:55 +0000 Running Elley 1151806@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrsjazz: Omg really???? That's so cool! It was one that came up on my kindle screen advertised and I clicked on it and thought it looked SO good! I already bought it so ill definitely be reading it :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/hb-book-club-poll-for-november-book-of-the-month#post-1151750 Tue, 15 Oct 2013 19:25:35 +0000 IRunForFun 1151750@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrsjazz: That's so cool!! That's actually the one I voted for as well. It sounds like the type of book I'd seek out to read! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/hb-book-club-poll-for-november-book-of-the-month#post-1151748 Tue, 15 Oct 2013 19:23:52 +0000 Bao 1151748@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrsjazz: I ended up voting for that one! How cool :) It's on my to read list regardless. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/hb-book-club-poll-for-november-book-of-the-month#post-1151735 Tue, 15 Oct 2013 19:15:01 +0000 mrsjazz 1151735@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Running Elley: HOLY CRAP! I'm so happy Harrowgate is on this list! I've already read it because my friend wrote it! :heart: :) I have to tell her about this, she is going to be pretty excited. It's obvious which one I vote for.</p> <p>ETA: Well, I see another book is winning :) But that's okay, too :wink: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/hb-book-club-poll-for-november-book-of-the-month#post-1151721 Tue, 15 Oct 2013 19:07:13 +0000 Bao 1151721@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Running Elley: I think we have a winner :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/hb-book-club-poll-for-november-book-of-the-month#post-1151415 Tue, 15 Oct 2013 15:32:43 +0000 CupQuakeWalk 1151415@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>The bookstore one vs. Harrowgate </p> <p>Hmmm... I utinately voted Harrowgate, but wouldn't mind either. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/hb-book-club-poll-for-november-book-of-the-month#post-1150999 Tue, 15 Oct 2013 12:52:34 +0000 Running Elley 1150999@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think I'm going to end up reading all of them but, fyi, I voted for Mr. Penumbra's for book club purposes :)</p> <p>ETA: I'll wait until the end of the day before posting a final decision so that more people can vote if they want! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/hb-book-club-poll-for-november-book-of-the-month#post-1150507 Tue, 15 Oct 2013 10:15:35 +0000 mrskc 1150507@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>The last two sound really good, but voted for Mr. Penumbra since it is available in paperback. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/hb-book-club-poll-for-november-book-of-the-month#post-1150499 Tue, 15 Oct 2013 10:13:49 +0000 Fronkinzankinsbride 1150499@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My wife read The orphan masters son and said it was really good. I could use an excuse to push it up on my reading list so I voted for that one. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/hb-book-club-poll-for-november-book-of-the-month#post-1150372 Tue, 15 Oct 2013 09:30:24 +0000 TemperanceBrennan 1150372@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>They all look good. The last one sounds really sad, and so does the second one - but I'm so fascinated by North Korea. </p> <p>I think they are all good choices. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/hb-book-club-poll-for-november-book-of-the-month#post-1150319 Tue, 15 Oct 2013 09:05:49 +0000 swurlygurl 1150319@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Torn between the last two - my library had better votes for the last one so that's what I voted. #3 and #4 are both available at my library, so I hope it's one of those!!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/hb-book-club-poll-for-november-book-of-the-month#post-1150129 Tue, 15 Oct 2013 07:37:34 +0000 Bao 1150129@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I am between one and three, I don't care!! :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/hb-book-club-poll-for-november-book-of-the-month#post-1150044 Tue, 15 Oct 2013 04:15:22 +0000 Ree723 1150044@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>They're all going onto my Must Read list but I really debated between the first and fourth books. In the end, I voted for Harrowgate but I'll be happy with any of them! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/hb-book-club-poll-for-november-book-of-the-month#post-1150038 Tue, 15 Oct 2013 04:00:11 +0000 imbali 1150038@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Just chiming in to say I've read Mr. Penumbra's 24 Hour Book Store and it's soooo good. pick that one! :wink: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/hb-book-club-poll-for-november-book-of-the-month#post-1150037 Tue, 15 Oct 2013 03:51:10 +0000 illumina 1150037@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>The 3rd one :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/hb-book-club-poll-for-november-book-of-the-month#post-1150011 Tue, 15 Oct 2013 01:46:47 +0000 SugarplumsMom 1150011@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm with @bluestriped bee: the last two sound good. I haven't figured out which one to vote for yet. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/hb-book-club-poll-for-november-book-of-the-month#post-1150006 Tue, 15 Oct 2013 01:37:48 +0000 BSB 1150006@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>The last two books sound good. Can't decide which one I want to vote for. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/hb-book-club-poll-for-november-book-of-the-month#post-1149564 Mon, 14 Oct 2013 19:01:32 +0000 lovehoneybee 1149564@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My vote is for Mr. Penumbra's 24 Hour Book Store because my MIL has been raving about it for months. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/hb-book-club-poll-for-november-book-of-the-month#post-1149560 Mon, 14 Oct 2013 18:59:56 +0000 Running Elley 1149560@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It's time to vote for next month's book! All summaries were copied from Amazon and Good Reads.</p> <p>Harrowgate by Kate Maruyama</p> <p>Michael should be overjoyed by the birth of his son, but his wife, Sarah, won't let him touch the baby or allow anyone to visit. Greta, an intrusive, sinister doula has wormed her way into their lives, driving a wedge between Michael and his family. Every time he leaves the Harrowgate, he returns to find his beloved wife and baby altered. He feels his family slipping away, and as a malevolent force begins to creep in, Michael does what any new father would do?he fights to keep his family together. Kate Maruyama's debut novel, Harrowgate, is a chilling, richly detailed story of love, loss, and the haunted place that lies between</p> <p>The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson</p> <p>An epic novel and a thrilling literary discovery, The Orphan Master’s Son follows a young man’s journey through the icy waters, dark tunnels, and eerie spy chambers of the world’s most mysterious dictatorship, North Korea.<br /> Pak Jun Do is the haunted son of a lost mother—a singer “stolen” to Pyongyang—and an influential father who runs Long Tomorrows, a work camp for orphans. There the boy is given his first taste of power, picking which orphans eat first and which will be lent out for manual labor. Recognized for his loyalty and keen instincts, Jun Do comes to the attention of superiors in the state, rises in the ranks, and starts on a road from which there will be no return.<br /> Considering himself “a humble citizen of the greatest nation in the world,” Jun Do becomes a professional kidnapper who must navigate the shifting rules, arbitrary violence, and baffling demands of his Korean overlords in order to stay alive. Driven to the absolute limit of what any human being could endure, he boldly takes on the treacherous role of rival to Kim Jong Il in an attempt to save the woman he loves, Sun Moon, a legendary actress “so pure, she didn’t know what starving people looked like.”<br /> Part breathless thriller, part story of innocence lost, part story of romantic love, The Orphan Master’s Son is also a riveting portrait of a world heretofore hidden from view: a North Korea rife with hunger, corruption, and casual cruelty but also camaraderie, stolen moments of beauty, and love. A towering literary achievement, The Orphan Master’s Son ushers Adam Johnson into the small group of today’s greatest writers.</p> <p>Mr. Penumbra's 24 Hour Book Store by Robin Sloan</p> <p>The Great Recession has shuffled Clay Jannon out of his life as a San Francisco Web-design drone—and serendipity, sheer curiosity, and the ability to climb a ladder like a monkey has landed him a new gig working the night shift at Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore. But after just a few days on the job, Clay begins to realize that this store is even more curious than the name suggests. There are only a few customers, but they come in repeatedly and never seem to actually buy anything, instead “checking out” impossibly obscure volumes from strange corners of the store, all according to some elaborate, long-standing arrangement with the gnomic Mr. Penumbra. The store must be a front for something larger, Clay concludes, and soon he’s embarked on a complex analysis of the customers’ behavior and roped his friends into helping to figure out just what’s going on. But once they bring their findings to Mr. Penumbra, it turns out the secrets extend far outside the walls of the bookstore.<br /> With irresistible brio and dazzling intelligence, Robin Sloan has crafted a literary adventure story for the twenty-first century, evoking both the fairy-tale charm of Haruki Murakami and the enthusiastic novel-of-ideas wizardry of Neal Stephenson or a young Umberto Eco, but with a unique and feisty sensibility that’s rare to the world of literary fiction. Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore is exactly what it sounds like: an establishment you have to enter and will never want to leave, a modern-day cabinet of wonders ready to give a jolt of energy to every curious reader, no matter the time of day.</p> <p>A Walk Across the Sun by Corban Addison</p> <p>When a tsunami rages through their coastal town in India, 17-year-old Ahalya Ghai and her 15-year-old sister Sita are left orphaned and homeless. With almost everyone they know suddenly erased from the face of the earth, the girls set out for the convent where they attend school. They are abducted almost immediately and sold to a Mumbai brothel owner, beginning a hellish descent into the bowels of the sex trade. </p> <p>Halfway across the world, Washington, D.C., attorney Thomas Clarke faces his own personal and professional crisis-and makes the fateful decision to pursue a pro bono sabbatical working in India for an NGO that prosecutes the subcontinent's human traffickers. There, his conscience awakens as he sees firsthand the horrors of the trade in human flesh, and the corrupt judicial system that fosters it. Learning of the fate of Ahalya and Sita, Clarke makes it his personal mission to rescue them, setting the stage for a riveting showdown with an international network of ruthless criminals. </p>