Literary Biographies & Memoirs Nominations & Vote • September 2016

[Bookworm_Girl]

Originally Posted by Bookpossum

It certainly is! How did your team go, Bookworm-Girl?

We won! We aren't very good but neither is the other team. I'm not sure we'll win many more this year since we're in a really tough conference, but it's a promising start and I'll take a "W" when we can get it.

[Bookpossum]

Okay: I'll start with

2 Nabokov
1 Greene
1 Reiss
2 Tomalin

and keep one in reserve as I try to make up my mind between a couple of the others.

PS Good news about the team win!

[fantasyfan]

I'll give two votes each of the following:

Charles Dickens: 2

A Memoir of Jane Jane Austen 2

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater 2

I'll hold my last vote in reserve.

[Bookworm_Girl]

I'll start with 2 votes for The Story of San Michele because it's been on my list to read for a while.

[Bookpossum]

I'll give my last vote to The Story of San Michele as I have never read it, yet have known the name for decades.

[Bookworm_Girl]

Tough choices! I could easily read all of these!

2 for Dickens
2 for The Black Count
1 for An Opium-Eater

And now I'm out of votes.

[fantasyfan]

I'll give my last vote to Graham Greene's A Sort of Life.

[bfisher]

Speak, Memory - 3 votes
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater - 1 vote
A Memoir of Jane Austen - 2 vote
Ahead of Time - 1 vote

[sun surfer]

bfisher, only two votes are allowed per nomination, so you've given two to Speak, Memory and have one vote left.

[sun surfer]

I wish I could've looked more thoroughly into the nominees this month but for now I'll give 2 for Munthe and 2 for Nabokov, both of which I've been wanting to read.

[sun surfer]

Looking into them, I'm also interested in the de Quincy, the Greene and the Austen-Leigh but I only have three votes left. If I'd voted earlier I may have given Greene two and Austen-Leigh one, but with time almost up and seeing the results I'll switch that and give two votes to Austen-Leigh and one to Greene because, unless there are more votes, the Greene can't make up enough ground but the Austen-Leigh can join a three-way tie.

[sun surfer]

Voting is complete and we have a three-way tie between:

-Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
-A Memoir of Jane Austen by James Edward Austen-Leigh
-Charles Dickens by Claire Tomalin


We will have a one-day run-off and voting is now open!

Voting will close exactly ONE DAY from this post.

Each person has TWO votes to use.

Please refer to the first post for all other information.

[Bookpossum]

Oh dear - that's a tough choice, as they are all of interest! No point spreading the vote though, so I give 2 votes to Nabokov.

[sun surfer]

My first instinct says Nabokov but I liked the sample of the Austen-Leigh a lot too and my backed-up reading says the shorter the better so I'll give-

1 vote Nabokov
1 vote Austen-Leigh

I'm interested in Dickens' life as well, but I think in this category's nominations I've discovered I seem to prefer autobiographies or memoirs to biographies.

[Bookpossum]

I have downloaded the Austen-Leigh and mean to read it anyway if it doesn't win. And I can borrow both the Nabokov and Tomalin from our library, and plan on doing so. Now all I need is the time to read them all ...