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Biography & Memoir Nominations • September 2014
Help us select what the MR Literary Club will read for September 2014!
The nominations will run for four days until 5 September. Then, a separate voting poll will begin where the month's selection will be decided. The category for this month is: Biography & Memoir 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 closed. Final nominations: Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China by Jung Chang - Fully nominated Spoiler:
Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self by Claire Tomalin - Fully nominated Spoiler:
The Story of San Michele by Alex Munthe - Fully nominated Spoiler:
The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham by Selina Hastings - Fully nominated Spoiler:
Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy by Carlos Eire - Fully nominated Spoiler:
The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton - Fully nominated Spoiler:
Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin - Fully nominated Spoiler:
Erasmus and the Age of Reformation by Johan Huizinga - 2 Spoiler:
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09-01-2014, 10:26 AM | #3 |
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Second Munthe.
I’d like to nominate Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self by Claire Tomalin. Spoiler:
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I'll nominate another Biography by Claire Tomalin--though Issybird's nomination sounds fascinating!
Charles Dickens: A Life Here is a review from Amazon by Elaine Simpson-Long: Spoiler:
It is reasonably inexpensive in the Kindle edition: Amazon UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Charles-Dick...ickens++A+Life Amazon.com http://www.amazon.com/Charles-Dicken...dickens+A+Life It is also aailable in the Kobo bookstore http://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebo...dickens-a-life and on Feedbooks: http://www.feedbooks.com/item/453487/charles-dickens Last edited by fantasyfan; 09-01-2014 at 10:52 AM. |
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I would like to nominate Empress Dowager Cixi by Jung Chang. A New York Times Notable book. Available at Amazon and Kobo in multiple countries as well as Overdrive libraries in the US.
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I second: Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self
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I second Empress Dowager Cixi by Jung Chang
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I third Samuel Pepys and fourth Empress Dowager Cixi
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I third San Michele and fourth Tomalin's Pepys.
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I also nominate Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy by Carlos Eire. US National Book Award Winner for Nonfiction (2003). Available at Amazon and Kobo in multiple countries. Also at Overdrive in limited locations and Oyster & Scribd subscription services.
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I nominate: Erasmus and the age of Reformation by Johan Huizinga.
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I'm also going to nominate The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham, by Selina Hastings.
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I second The secret lives of Somerset Maughan and Charles Dickens
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I third The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham and Charles Dickens
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Just back from being away for a while unexpectedly. Lots to catch up on including discussion of last month's book. Perhaps I'm a little out of it, but I'd like some clarification regarding this category.
Are the nominations to be bios of literary authors or are the authors themselves considered literary writers? I ask because so far I know very little about the authors. |
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