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09-01-2020, 12:22 AM | #1 |
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Nominations for October • The Times They Are a'Changin': Revolution
Hello and Welcome to the New Leaf Book Club's October Book Nomination thread where we nominate the books that we'd like the New Leaf Book Club to consider reading in October, 2020. The theme is The Times They Are a'Changin': Revolution .
Everyone is welcome to join the nomination process even if they'd rather lurk during the voting and discussion; if that is still a little too much commitment, please feel free to suggest titles without making a formal nomination. Also, don't sweat the links. Yes, it's helpful to check availability and prices before nominating in order to eliminate anything that's out of the question, but ultimately our global members with different gadgets and preferences will have to check for themselves. The nominations will run through 9 AM PST, September 7, 2020. Each nomination requires a second to make it to the poll, which will remain open for three days. The discussion of the selection will start on October 15, 2020. And don't forget to join us for the discussion of Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days , our September selection. That discussion starts on Tuesday, September 15th. Any questions? See the FAQ below, or just ask! FAQs for the Nomination, Selection and Discussion process General Guidelines for the New Leaf Book Club Official choices with two nominations:
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09-01-2020, 07:26 AM | #3 |
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Thanks for the head start, but I'd forgotten it was even coming up . And now I'm staring at the theme with Dylon and the Beatles competing for who wants to be the biggest ear worm.
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09-01-2020, 05:28 PM | #4 |
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I’ve chosen a book that focuses on birth of the information age, so nominate The Secret Life of Bletchley Park: The WWII Codebreaking Centre and the Men and Women Who Worked There, by Sinclair McKay.
From Amazon: Bletchley Park has played a vital role in British history. This Victorian country house in the Buckinghamshire countryside was was where one of the war’s most famous – and crucial – achievements was made: the cracking of Germany’ s 'Enigma' code in which its most important military communications were couched. It was home to some of Britain’s most brilliant mathematical brains, such as Alan Turing, and the scene of immense advances in technology – indeed, the birth of modern computing. The military codes deciphered there were instrumental in turning both the Battle of the Atlantic and the war in North Africa. But, though plenty has been written about the boffins, and the codebreaking, fictional and non-fiction – from Robert Harris and Ian McEwan to Andrew Hodges’ biography of Turing – what of the thousands of men and women who lived and worked there during the war? What was life like for them – an odd, secret territory between the civilian and the military? This is the first oral history of life at Bletchley Park, an amazing compendium of memories from people now in their eighties – of skating on the frozen lake in the grounds (a depressed Angus Wilson, the novelist, once threw himself in) – of a youthful Roy Jenkins, useless at codebreaking, of the high jinks at nearby accommodation hostels – and of the implacable secrecy that meant girlfriend and boyfriend working in adjacent huts knew nothing about each other's work. Kindle: $8 US; $10 CA Kobo: $13.50 CA; $10.79 US; $18.74 AUD; £6.49 UK Overdrive: it appears to be available, though not at my library. I’m sorry the cost is so high in Australia, but have decided to suggest it anyway, based on library availability. |
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I was trying to decide among several books on women's suffrage, but since one of the contenders is on sale today in the U.S. and Canada (Amazon and Kobo), I decided to go with it so anyone even vaguely interested can pick it up now: The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote by Elaine Weiss (2018, 417 pp.).
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09-01-2020, 06:25 PM | #6 |
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Victoria, it looks like there's an alternate title: The Secret Lives of Codebreakers: The Men and Women Who Cracked the Enigma Code at Bletchley Park. The audiobook (which is in Overdrive) uses this alternate title.
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09-01-2020, 06:39 PM | #7 |
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Oh great - thanks Catlady. And thanks for the heads up in the sale. It looks like a really neat book! I second it. And just picked it up.
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OK, with a theme like this, I pretty much have to go with:
10 Days that Shook the World, by John Reed. It's in the public domain in the US, Canada, the EU, and Australia, given that it was published in 1919 (so OK in the US) and the author died in 1920, so good everywhere else. It's a reasonable length, ~300 pages. And the book had a profound impact. Quote:
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09-02-2020, 12:25 AM | #9 |
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Darn, I was hoping you might have gone for Michael Smith's The Secrets of Station X, which I read after it was nominated a couple of years ago. And which I really liked. But hey, this will give me a reason to read another. (I also read and very much like Between Silk and Cyanide that month.)
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So I'm going to cheat and nominate the book I am currently reading: Factfulness by Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling & Anna Rosling Rönnlund. The subtitle for this is: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
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My scan of the first page of reviews on Goodreads seems to be reflecting my early impressions: good but not without fault. Lots to talk about in it, and it definitely fits the theme: the book is all about trends and how things really have been getting better by many important measurements. The author is very upbeat, so the cheerful message makes for a pleasant change in these interesting times. Example prices: Kobo US $9.99, Kobo CA $10.99, Kobo UK £4.99, Kobo AU $14.99. |
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A quick look at Factfulness shows it to have a way way too many charts/graphs.
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I'll second 10 days that shook the world.
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I'm only up to chapter two, and so far the graphs haven't been a problem for me in the book. A few are such that I cannot read the fine print, but the shape and heading has been enough - with the main text - to make the point pretty clear. Other than that, I can only confirm what JSWolf has said: there are a lot charts/graphs in this book. |
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