03-01-2014, 08:42 AM | #1 |
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Non-Fiction Nominations • March 2014
Help us select what the MR Literary Club will read for March 2014!
The nominations will run for four days until 5 March. Then, a separate voting poll will begin where the month's selection will be decided. The category for this month is: Non-Fiction 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 are now closed. Final nominations: Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane by Andrew Graham-Dixons - Fully nominated Spoiler:
Reluctant Accomplice by Konrad H. Jarausch - Fully nominated Spoiler:
A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor - Fully nominated Spoiler:
Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres, by Henry Adams - Fully nominated Spoiler:
Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression by Studs Terkel - Fully nominated Spoiler:
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard - Fully nominated Spoiler:
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I am still just over half way through Fools Crow, but will manage to catch up I hope, so here I go with two very different nominations of not-so-short books:
- Reluctant accomplice, by historian Konrad H. Jarausch, is centred around the letters that his father, a Nazi officer also named Konrad Jaraush, and also a historian (and theologian), wrote to his wife, another well educated member of the German intelligensia As reported in a review in The Spectator, Quote:
My second nomination is entirely different, and is for a book by Andrew Graham-Dixons, an art critic who generally writes very well, entitled Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane. Caravaggio himself had a very tumultuous life, and I expect Graham-Dixons also to go over life in Rome in the 17th century in some detail - here is Goodreads blurb: Quote:
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Second both Reluctant Accomplice and Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane.
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03-01-2014, 01:14 PM | #4 |
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Third Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane.
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03-01-2014, 01:32 PM | #5 |
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Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression by Studs Terkel.
In 1970 Studs Terkel set out to write a history of the Great Depression in America, not as a dry history, but from interviews conducted with people from all walks of life and of every economic class who lived through it. New York Times review from 1970. Kindle | Kobo |
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I had planned to nominate the following, then I rejected it as being too long. But now that Paola's nominated a whopper, I figure what the heck.
Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres, by Henry Adams. Here's the blurb from GR: Quote:
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Third Reluctant Accomplice and fourth Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane.
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03-01-2014, 03:35 PM | #8 |
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all whoppers so far
Second Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression and Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres, and go finish Fools Crow! |
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I nominate A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor. Here's the blurb from Goodreads:
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I'll fourth Reluctant Accomplice and
third Mont Saint-Michel and Chartres. PS I didn't know about the 90% coupon - thanks for the tip paola. |
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Second Time of Gifts and I'm done!
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Third Time of Gifts and Hard Times. And that makes four.
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I'll fourth A Time of Gifts and Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres.
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I will fourth Hard Times.
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