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Celebrate Good Times • October 2019
Help select what we'll read and discuss next!
By the way, this will be the lit club's 101st selection! The topic is Celebrate Good Times. We have reached the milestone of 100 selections, and so to tie into that, we're celebrating with a topic about celebrations. A nomination can be related to anniversaries, milestones, celebrations, or anything along those lines. 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 complete. Voting is complete. Final results-
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10-02-2019, 11:21 PM | #2 |
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I’m looking forward to researching this topic. That’s a big milestone! Let’s party!
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I'll start with There There by Tommy Orange. It is about various people travelling to the Big Oakland Powwow which I think counts as a type of celebration. Goodreads 294 pages, 2018, U.S.
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I've found this topic enjoyably challenging, and while I've found some others that more obviously fit I'm going more outside the box to nominate A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters by Julian Barnes. It features the biblical milestone of the great flood and Noah's Ark as well as the historical milestone of the Titanic journey (with being first voyage of the largest ship and one of the deadliest marine disasters), among possibly others. Goodreads 311 pages, 1989, England
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Now that I've done a celebration and a milestone I'll finish by tackling an anniversary, though like the prior nomination it's a somewhat creative take- The Keep by Jennifer Egan. It's about two cousins who reunite 20 years after an irreversibly damaging childhood prank (thus the unconventional anniversary) to renovate a medieval castle. This might be antipodean to celebrating 'good times' but anniversaries come in many shapes and sizes. Goodreads 247 pages, 2006, U.S.
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I’ve been out of town this week and just got home. I am going to research my nominations today and post something later.
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Looking forward to it!
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My first nomination is a contemporary literary psychological novel, The Party by Elizabeth Day. I was intrigued by the descriptions which call it Brideshead Revisited meets The Talented Mr. Ripley.
EDIT: I meant to add that this nomination is also a nod back to two authors (Evelyn Waugh and Patricia Highsmith) that the Literary Club has read. And, specifically, Brideshead Revisited was a selection in June 2015. From Amazon: Quote:
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My second nomination is Invitation to the Waltz by Rosamund Lehmann published in 1932, a classic coming of age story centered around a party.
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Am struggling a bit with this - I'll have to do some mental gymnastics.
Bel Canto sprung to my mind as a good one, but then I discovered why |
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Bel Canto would be an excellent choice if the Lit Club had not already read it!
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Heh, yes, that would've been a good fit. I also found this more challenging than I initially thought; I got creative to find ones I wanted to nominate. Sometimes the fun is figuring how a book can fit a topic!
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My last nomination is Transatlantic by Colum McCann. It is a grand-sweeping saga of fiction imagined around 3 historical milestone events of Transatlantic crossings.
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I have to agree that this topic was much harder than I expected!
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