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Bookworms • April 2021
No April Fool's here- Help select what we'll read and discuss next!
The topic is Bookworms. This could be books about books, readers, librarians, scholars, students, authors, etc. There's a lot to choose from! Detailed nominating and voting guidelines can be found here. Basically, nominations are open for about four days and each person may nominate up to three literary selections which will go automatically to the vote. Voting by post then opens for four days, and a voter may give each nomination either one or two votes but only has a limited number of votes to use which is equal to the number of nominations minus one. Any questions, feel free to ask. We hope that you will read the selection with us and join in the discussion. * Nominations are now complete. Initial voting is complete. Run-off voting is now open! Results through post #19-
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I’m excited about this topic. One of my favorite themes.
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For anyone celebrating, happy Easter!
My first nomination is The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin. The description sounds intriguing, and I like the idea that we're more collected works. Goodreads . Preview . 258 Pages . 2014 . U.S. Quote:
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Hah! When I saw the theme, this was the very first book I thought of, but assumed it would not be literary enough for this club. I thoroughly enjoyed it, good nomination. |
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Thanks! Most things are literary enough for this club now; we've expanded the definition to the point it's mostly whatever books people who are participating want to nominate and vote on. Especially now that we're the only club left!
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Next I'll offer 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff. This is a short memoir and sounds like it'd be a fun read. For some reason this doesn't seem to be available as an English-language ebook in the US or UK despite that being its original language and despite there being Spanish and French ebook versions available. I'm still going to nominate it though because it is so short so reading a pbook wouldn't be so major, and it's available as an audiobook as well (in English, heh).
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My last nomination is People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks. This sounds like a really interesting historical mystery and look at the journey of a manuscript through the ages.
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My first nomination is The Bookman's Tale by Charlie Lovett. It has been on my TBR for a long while.
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My second nomination is The Forgers by Bradford Morrow.
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My third nomination is The Reader's Room by Antoine Laurain. I really enjoyed The Red Notebook and have wanted to read more of his works.
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I had a long list of books. Here are some that I considered.
The Borrower by Rebecca Makai The Strange Library by Haruki Murakami The Bad-ass Librarians of Timbuktu by Joshua Hammer The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman The Bookseller of Kabul by Åsne Seierstad The Camel Bookmobile by Masha Hamilton The Librarian by Mikhail Elizarov Murder in the Museum by John Rowland The Archivist by Martha Cooley Time Was Soft There: A Paris Sojourn at Shakespeare & Co. by Jeremy Mercer Severina by Rodrigo Rey Rosa The Geographer’s Library by Jon Fasman Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore: A Novel Book by Matthew J. Sullivan Night Train to Lisbon by Pascal Mercier Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal Books: A Memoir by Larry McMurtry |
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I've read this, an excellent read. Of course of of Ms Brooks books are.
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The nominations will be updated on the first post today and then the voting started; until then nominations are still open.
~ Great nominations, B_G! The Bookman's Tale was in my top four to nominate... for my last nomination I couldn't decide between it and the Brooks. A lot of the other ones you found look really interesting too. Quote:
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B_G, honestly when I found it I didn't realise it was the same author as Year of Wonders, lol, until I was writing the nomination post. When I found it I thought, hm, the name sounds familiar but didn't connect it to a previous lit club selection but when I was posting it clicked for me. I think the reason was that back then we didn't specify where authors were from and I didn't know/remember that Brooks is an Australian author since Year of Wonders has nothing to do with Australia, so I guess that threw me when I found this book and saw she was from Australia. Last edited by sun surfer; 04-06-2021 at 03:06 PM. |
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Nominations are complete and voting is now open!
Voting will close exactly four days from this post. Each person has FIVE votes to use. |
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