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Region Nominations & Vote • April 2018
Help us select what the MR Literary Club will read in April 2018!
The category for this month is: Region South Asia (as chosen by vote) Detailed nominating and voting guidelines can be found here. Simply put, we first begin with a one-day vote to determine this month's region. Voting will close exactly one day from this post and each person has FIVE votes to use. This is the last region-choosing vote of this cycle, and the eligible regions not chosen will all be available to nominate from in the June Region Finale. After, nominations will open for four days and each person may nominate up to two literary selections which will go automatically to the vote. Voting then opens for four days and each person votes by post, receives a number of votes equal to the number of nominations minus one and may give each nomination up to two votes. Any questions, feel free to ask. We hope that you will read the selection with the club and join in the discussion. ![]() Spoiler:
The floor is now open! * Region voting is closed. Final results-
Nominations are closed. Voting is closed. Final results-
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Since this is the last region month with only one region chosen, my tactic is to vote for the regions I've read the least from. That equals:
2 votes for Sub Saharan Africa 2 votes for South Asia For my last vote, I think I've read less books from Southeast Europe specifically for the lit club than from Japan, but over my life I've read less books from Japan, so my last vote is: 1 vote for Japan |
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Tough choices!
2 votes for Southeast Europe 2 votes for South Asia 1 vote for Sub Saharan Africa |
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Region voting is over and the winner is:
South Asia! This includes India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Maldives and Sri Lanka. Nominations are now open for four days. |
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Should be an interesting region to explore!
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I would like to nominate Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...Sea_of_Poppies |
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I'm definitely interested in that book, bfisher. I can already tell this is going to be a hard month to choose!
For my nominations, I put forth: Moth Smoke by Mohsin Hamid, Pakistan Goodreads / 279 pages Quote:
Goodreads / 383 pages Quote:
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Great choices! I plan to submit my nominations tonight. Sea of Poppies has been on my TBR for ages. I just read Hamid's latest novel, Exit West, in February and would read more of his works.
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I nominate Untouchable by Mulk Raj Anand. Published in 1935.
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My second nomination is A Golden Age by Tahmima Anam.
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Great group of nominations. I’ll collect the nominations and start the vote when I can get to a computer later tonight, or as soon as I have time to do it on my phone (it takes a lot linger on the phone). Until then nominations are still open.
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Nominations are closed and voting is now open!
Voting will close exactly four days from this post. Each person has FOUR votes to use. |
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A great selection of regions and plot lines!
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Can't vote for them all! Tough month.
2 - Sea of Poppies 1 - Cinnamon Gardens 1 - Untouchable |
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