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Moonlighting • July 2019
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The topic is Moonlighting. This could be anything to do with nighttime, the night sky, the moon, moonlight, etc. This could also relate to the alternate definition of moonlighting as a second or separate job or occupation aside from any main employment, where one 'moonlights'. Or, however else you may interpret the topic! 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. Initial voting is complete. Run-off voting is complete. Final results-
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The first book I would like to nominate is A True Story written by Lucian of Samosata
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The second Book ist Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto
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Intriguing nominations so far, Spinnenmonat.
When I suggested this category, I didn't even think about the full title of our current selection having a night-ish word in it, but I realised it once I found this nomination that included the same word, heh: The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng Goodreads, 350 pages, 2011, Malaysia I thought of it for this topic because of the title evoking the night. It won the Man Asian Literary Prize and the Walter Scott Prize, and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the International Dublin Literary Award. Quote:
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You beat me to Keats! I was seriously considering nominating Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne. Its relation to the topic was 'bright star'. There's also a wonderful film about John Keats and Fanny Brawne called Bright Star.
I had narrowed my possible nominations down to four including the one already nominated, so with you nominating a Keats I'll leave the Keats I was considering off and that makes finalising my nominations so much easier. But since I'm not nominating the book, I will leave Keats' Bright Star here: Quote:
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For my second nomination I'll put forth:
Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf. Goodreads, 188 pages, 2015, U.S. I thought of this as it relates to the night. Haruf's books are all about the same town in Colorado, and this was the final one as the author knew he was dying. I really enjoyed the sample I read. Quote:
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My final nomination is:
Tales of Moonlight and Rain by Ueda Akinari Goodreads, 235 pages, 1776, Japan This book is also sometimes known in English by its untranslated Japanese title, Ugetsu Monogatari. It's a collection of nine short, gentle ghost/supernatural stories, sometimes considered 'Japanese gothic'. I first found out about it from the wonderful 1953 Japanese film Ugetsu, which was an adaptation of two of the stories. The book is considered a classic and 'work of great significance'. Quote:
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Some very interesting nominations! I was super busy at work getting ready for the holiday weekend. I will be working on my nominations today.
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Note that A True Story by Lucian of Samosata is also known by various other names, including 'True History', 'Lucian's True History', 'Lucian's True Story', and, most divergently, 'Trips to the Moon'.
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Another note on Lucian of Samosata that isn't particularly important but that I still found interesting, is that he was born in Samosata, the ruins of which are now underwater because of a dam, although the modern city of Samsat is now nearby. Samosata is in modern-day Turkey. However, it's in the southeast of Turkey near modern-day Syria and in Lucian's time was part of 'Roman Syria' or Assyria, which correlates more closely to modern-day Syria, so pinning down a country for the selection was a little more complicated than usual, though if I had to pick only one modern country for Lucian I think I'd probably fall towards 'in spirit' rather than 'technically' and go with Syria (but I listed all the possibilities on the selection). Anyway, in Lucian's time it was part of a more Hellenistic culture and Lucian wrote in Greek.
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This month was a fun topic to look for nominations.
My first nomination is Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively, Man Booker Prize winner of 1987 and Golden Man Booker Prize nominee in 2018. From Goodreads: Quote:
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My second nomination is The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham. I enjoyed Of Human Bondage when we read it a few years ago.
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My last nomination is Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie, Man Booker Prize winner of 1981, Booker of Bookers Prize in 1993 and The Best of the Booker in 2008. The pro is that I liked the premise of the plot. The con is that it is 647 pages and a slower read.
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