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Yes, it looks interesting. But the wait at my two libraries is more than four months.
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This isn't a nomination. The book is too long (almost 700 pages) and too strange for a book club, but The Saragossa Manuscript by Jan Potocki fits the theme very well.
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I'll third Once Upon a River.
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10-05-2019, 10:26 AM | #49 |
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I'll third Ever After. It's not available at either of my libraries, but it's only £5.99 in the U.K., so a reasonable price ($10 CAD, or $7.40 USD). And it sounds interesting.
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I'm late to the party. I was on a work trip and thought I'd have more time but couldn't even keep up with reading the thread....
I will add a book from the public domain and nominate The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë. It is on a list of popular framed narrative novels (stories within stories) and is told through letters. That's how I am choosing to interpret the theme. From Amazon: Quote:
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I'm out of nominations, but I'd love to see Tenant of Wildfell Hall make it to the poll.
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We've got a day to go before nominations close.
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I’ve been away for a few days too, so am relieved to see that there is still time to second The Memory Chalet. It has some passionate reviewers.
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In another thread, we were speaking of favourite narrators. Well, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall has 8 unabridged narrations on Audible, but one of them is read by two of my absolute favourite narrators, Frederick Davidson (David Case) and Nadia May (Wanda McCaddon). That alone will be enough to push it onto my active TBR whether we select it or not.
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If it hadn’t already been thirded, I would have voted for The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.I’ve never read anything by Anne Bronte, so now I’m quite curious.
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I read Agnes Grey by Anne last year. I’m slowly making my way through their works. A friend who grew up in Yorkshire said he and his wife really enjoyed the BBC series To Walk Invisible about the sisters.
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