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Open Nominations • December 2012
Help us select what the MR Literary Club will read for December 2012!
The nominations will run for up to three days until December 4 or until five works have made the list. Final voting in a new poll will begin by December 4, where the month's selection will be decided. The category for this month is: Open 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 through post 21: Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami - Fully nominated Spoiler:
The Silent Steppe by Mukhamet Shayakhmetov - Fully nominated Spoiler:
The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz -Fully nominated Spoiler:
Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks - Fully nominated Spoiler:
The 42nd Parallel by John Dos Passos - 3 Spoiler:
Talismano by Abdelwahab Meddeb - 2 Spoiler:
History: A Novel by Elsa Morante - 2 Spoiler:
The Loser by Thomas Bernhard - 3 Spoiler:
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I will start the nominations off with Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami.
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I'm going to nominate The 42nd Parallel by John Dos Passos, the first book of his U.S.A. trilogy.
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I was positive that this was available in ebook and even that I owned it. Oops. Not that I can find. But it's widely available in libraries and cheap editions. |
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I'm going to nominate The Silent Steppe by Mukhamet Shayakhmetov.
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I'm also going to nominate one more book and use my other two for supporting, but I'm having a hard time deciding between three books for my second nomination... Last edited by sun surfer; 12-01-2012 at 11:48 AM. |
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I got a copy of Silent Steppe after the discussion, so a third from me.
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My second nomination will be Talismano by Abdelwahab Meddeb.
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ETA - Also, I love both of the noms by Hamlet53 and issybird, but I'm going to hold off for a bit from using all four of my noms right away. Last edited by sun surfer; 12-01-2012 at 01:25 PM. |
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sorry sunsurfer, but for my final nomination I have to come closer to home, and propose History: a novel, by Elsa Morante. Shamefully, I have not read it (I am going to get this right in December), here is the blurb (which gives something away of the plot, be warned)
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Looks like pbook only, but as so far it is pbook galore, I thought I'd give it a try ;-) |
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I probably won't get around to this selection until January, but it's one of my favourite categories.
I'll fourth Norwegian Wood. Not that they will make it, but I'm going to throw out a couple of nominations because others might be interested. Nominating: The Loser by Thomas Bernhard Nominating: The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz |
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Ohhhh, I just bought this, second The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.
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If if pleases, I would like to nominate Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks.
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Amazon (US) Amazon (UK) B&N (US) Kobo Found also in many e-libraries through overdrive and is fulfilled in epub and even in Kindle format (for applicable regions/libraries). Even Australia hasn't missed out. So availability shouldn't be too much of an issue. This is the book I would have nominated if Australia had won the regional vote in November. I've wanted to read this book for a while and it would be lovely to discuss it with you all. |
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We certainly are getting a number of great books proposed in short order. I will use the second of my nominations to put The Silent Steppe in to the fully nominated column. I will also third The 42nd Parallel. I well hold back my final nomination to have it available as things progress further.
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I'll second The Loser and I'll second Year of Wonders, and that's the last of my noms.
This is a really great selection so far this month all around and it makes it really difficult to decide which ones to support. The U.S.A. trilogy has been on my longer TBR list and I'd love to read it too. |
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I haven't read Caleb's Crossing - but I have purchased it along with Year of Wonders and People of the Book. This nomination is me saying, "Time to get busy!" Go on - third the nomination. You know you want to. ![]() Last edited by caleb72; 12-02-2012 at 05:43 AM. |
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