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Short Nominations • July 2014
Help us select what the MR Literary Club will read for July 2014!
The nominations will run for four days until 5 July. Then, a separate voting poll will begin where the month's selection will be decided. The category for this month is: Short (any short work or short story collection) In order for a work to be included in the poll it needs four nominations - the original nomination plus three supporting. Each participant has four nominations to use. You can nominate a new work for consideration or you can support (second, third or fourth) a work that has already been nominated by another person. To nominate a work just post a message with your nomination. If you are the first to nominate a work, it's always nice to provide an abstract to the work so others may consider their level of interest. What is literature for the purposes of this club? A superior work of lasting merit that enriches the mind. Often it is important, challenging, critically acclaimed. It may be from ancient times to today; it may be from anywhere in the world; it may be obscure or famous, short or long; it may be a story, a novel, a play, a poem, an essay or another written form. If you are unsure if a work would be considered literature, just ask! The floor is now open! * Nominations are now closed. Final nominations: Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino - Fully nominated Spoiler:
The Summer Book by Tove Jansson - Fully nominated Spoiler:
Runaway by Alice Munro - Fully nominated Spoiler:
The Club of Queer Trades by G. K. Chesterton - Fully nominated Spoiler:
Berlin Stories by Robert Walser - Fully nominated Spoiler:
Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges - Fully nominated Spoiler:
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather - Fully nominated Spoiler:
The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Fully nominated Spoiler:
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? by Joyce Carol Oates - Fully nominated Spoiler:
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I think we said that short meant any short work, so I’m running with it. I figure everyone’s up for something short after Testament. I’ve got two nominations, works in (English) translation.
Invisible Cities, by Italo Calvino, 4.21 stars at GR. Quote:
The Summer Book by Tove Jansson, 4.12 stars at GR. Quote:
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I'll second Invisible Cities and The Summer Book.
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07-01-2014, 11:15 AM | #4 |
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07-01-2014, 06:56 PM | #5 |
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I'll third Invisible Cities and The Summer Book.
I would like to nominate Runaway by Alice Munro (last year's Nobel Prize winner as you all probably know). From Kobo: The matchless Munro makes art out of everyday lives in this exquisite collection. Here are men and women of wildly different times and circumstances, their lives made vividly palpable by the nuance and empathy of Munro's writing. Runaway is about the power and betrayals of love, about lost children, lost chances. There is pain and desolation beneath the surface, like a needle in the heart, which makes these stories more powerful and compelling than anything she has written before I'm away from home for a few days so won't be able to participate quite as easily as usual, but should be able to check in once a day. Last edited by Bookpossum; 07-01-2014 at 07:01 PM. |
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I'll second Runaway
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I'll fourth Invisible Cities.
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07-02-2014, 11:12 AM | #8 |
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I fourth the Summer book.
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I fourth The Runaway (and hope very much that it will bring back the Prince of Denmark if we read a Noble prize winner).
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I'll nominate The Club of Queer Trades by G. K. Chesterton.
From the blurb on the Penguin Edition: "A master of the tongue in cheek, G.K. Chesterton's ingenious and, above all, paradoxical stories introduce Basil Grant, a sleuth so finely portrayed as to rival Sherlock Holmes. Eschewing facts for physiognomy, deduction for intuition, method for madness, he moves unerringly to his goal. "Accompanied by the gullible narrator of the tales and an excitable private detective, Basil Grant deals with a lethal message written in pansies, a professor's insanity, a country vicar's predicament and other puzzling situations, all of which lead them to the same source . . . . "While each story is complete in itself, together they weave another mystery which leads to its own climax . . . ." The six classic stories taken together occupy only 126 pages in the Penguin edition. It is available free from Project Gutenberg and in both a free and very cheap Kindle edition in Amazon {and on Feedbooks} as well as being included in many ebook collections devoted to Chesterton. http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_...k%3AThe+Club+o Last edited by fantasyfan; 07-02-2014 at 12:33 PM. |
07-02-2014, 12:26 PM | #11 |
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Second The Club of Queer Trades.
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Third The Club of Queer Trades.
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I'm going to use my last nomination on Berlin Stories by Robert Walser.
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07-02-2014, 01:51 PM | #15 |
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Second Berlin Stories.
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