Rachel Reads Randomly - Vote #70

 

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

3 Votes - Dan Taylor is Giving Up on Women by Neal Doran

4 Votes - What's New Pussycat? by Alexandra Potter

5 Votes - The Season For Second Chances by Ruth Saberton

9 Votes -  The Hygge Holiday by Rosie Blake

10 Votes - The Mountain in my Shoe by Louise Beech

That was an incredibly close contest last week, and I wasn't sure who had won until I counted up the votes. I will admit to being a bit naughty, and pre-emptively starting Rosie Blake, possibly with wishful thinking, only to realise there was a vote difference. Rosie's book is great and review is coming in October. I may have also had space for a novella last week so expect to see a review of Ruth Saberton's book coming very soon too! 

I did of course then read The Mountain in My Shoe and wow did you all know what you were talking about, what a superb book, please do take a look at my review. 

This week I'm randomising from my review books, so often I take on perhaps a few too many and thus they end up waiting for my attention while I try to read by publication date, or by Christmas, so lets see what comes up this time. That and I have a very busy week coming up so killing 2 birds with one stone could just help to keep me sane! Just to assure any authors whose books these may be, I will read them all when I have the time, I promise! 

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:

I have needed to use my veto power this week for one good reason - I'm currently reading The Christmas Holiday by Maxine Morrey, so it can't really go into this vote!  It is very enjoyable so far though! 

4 - Out of Practice by Phoebe Fox - Ooops I meant to read this ages ago, its the last book of a series I was enjoying, but its been sitting waiting patiently since the end of last year

21 - Summer at Willow Farm by Heidi Rice - Might be nice to read something summery with the way the weather currently is, and I do tend to like the author too! 

23 - After I've Gone by Linda Green -  I love Linda Green's women's fiction books, but still not read any of her psychological thrillers, hence requesting this from Netgalley. Really want to see what she is like at the dark side! 

37 - Moonlight Over Manhattan by Sarah Morgan -  The proof copy I have says #QueenofChristmas I don't think I need to say more

40 - The Little Village Christmas by Sue Moorcroft - As a fan of Sue Moorcroft I'm excited to know that there is a return to Middledip in this, a setting used in many of her previous novels! 

Wow I have some great looking books sitting on my review shelves, and this is just a small selection of them. One of these was actually going to be my next read, so clearly I need to leave a possible scheduling gap for a few days until I know whats happening!  Other than that all I can say is I am really really curious to see how this pans out! 

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! 

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. 

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.