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03-01-2019, 07:32 AM | #1 |
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Nominations for April 2019 • The Way I Heard It: Retellings
It's time for us select the book that the New Leaf Book Club will read in April 2019. The theme is The Way I Heard It: Retellings. 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. 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 7 AM EST, March 7, 2019. Each nomination requires a second and a third to make it to the poll, which will remain open for three days. The discussion of the selection will start on April 15, 2019. Don't forget to show up for the discussion of the February selection, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, on March 15. Any questions? See below, or just ask! FAQs for the Nomination, Selection and Discussion process General Guidelines for the New Leaf Book Club Official choices with three nominations: The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey [Bookpossum, gmw, CRussel] Public domain in Life+50 and Australia | Kobo: $US1.99, $NZ0.99, £2.02. Spoiler:
190 pp.
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett [stuartjmz, Dazrin, gmw] Kobo $9.62CDN, $11.99AUD, £4.99 | Kindle: AU $11.99, £4.99GBP, CDN$8.99, $8.99US Spoiler:
368 pp.
The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston [gmw, issybird, Victoria] Amazon US $9.49 | Amazon UK £6.64 | Amazon CA $12.79 | Amazon AU $12.99 | Kobo US $10.59 | Kobo UK £7.19 | Kobo CA $12.79 | Kobo AU $12.99 | Kobo NZ $13.99 Spoiler:
272 pp.
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather[/B] [issybird, bfisher, CRussel] Public domain in Life+70. MobileRead Library epub: Free | Faded Page all formats: Free | Feedbooks: Free | Kindle US: $9.99 | OverDrive, Audible Spoiler:
300 pp.
House of Names by Colm Tóibín [Bookpossum, Bookworm_Girl, bfisher] Kobo: $US11.99, $C13.99, £9.99, $A9.99, $NZ10.99. Spoiler:
290 pp.
All The President’s Men by Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward [Victoria, Catlady, Bookpossum] Kobo: £6.99 UK, $12.99 Cdn; $4.99 Aud; $4.99 NZD | Kindle: $13.99 US; $4.99 Aud; £4.99 UK Spoiler:
368 pp.
The Wild Girl by Kate Forsyth [Catlady, Bookworm_Girl, bfisher] Amazon US, $7.99 | Kobo US, $7.99 | Kobo CA $8.99 | Kobo AU $10.99 | Kobo NZ $10.99 | Kobo UK £5.63 | OverDrive, Hoopla Spoiler:
496 pp.
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie [Victoria, CRussel, Dazrin] Kobo: $11.99 AUD; £5.49 UK; $7.99 US | Kindle: $7.99 US; £5.49UK; $10.99 AUD Spoiler:
256 pp.
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Choices with one or two nominations:
**Compulsion by Meyer Levin [Catlady, issybird] Amazon US, $9.00 | Kobo US $11.99 | Kobo CA $15.19 | Kobo AU, $19.35 | Kobo NZ $19.08 | Kobo UK £8.63 | OverDrive, Scribd, Hoopla, Audible Spoiler:
482 pp.
*The Robe by Lloyd C Douglas [drofgnal] Amazon US $3.99 Spoiler:
528 pp.
**The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King [Bookworm_Girl, Dazrin] US$9.99 Spoiler:
341 pp.
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Rather than a retelling of a Greek myth or a Shakespearean play, I decided on a retelling of some English history, treated as a mystery to be solved. I would like to nominate The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey.
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The book is public domain in Australia and I think also in Canada. I'm not sure of the rules in other countries, but it seems to be available cheaply from Kobo if it isn't PD: $US1.99, $NZ0.99, £2.02. 190 pages |
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03-01-2019, 09:52 AM | #4 |
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I second The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey. (This was already on my list of things I'd been wanting to read.)
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03-01-2019, 01:25 PM | #5 |
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It's been forever since I read The Daughter of Time. Time for a re-read. I'll third it.
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I'm going to nominate what is considered to be Willa Cather's masterpiece, Death Comes for the Archbishop, a retelling of the life of Jean-Baptiste Lamy, the first archbishop of Santa Fe. It is on the Modern Library list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century and Time magazine's list of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005.
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03-01-2019, 07:56 PM | #7 |
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I second Death Comes for the Archbishop
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03-01-2019, 08:36 PM | #8 |
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Well, I'm not going to go for a fairy tale but I will go with a legend.
There are so many good takes on some legends but there are two that really stand out to me, at least in English. Robin Hood and King Arthur We have SO many good options with these that it's hard to choose, some new, some old. T.H. White? Bernard Cornwell? Mary Stewart? Marion Zimmer Bradley? Howard Pyle? Stephen Lawhead? I'm having some analysis paralysis, so, I'm just going to nominate my favorite: The... Well, crud, no Kindle version available in the US. That stinks. Why does this seem to happen every month? I'll be back... |
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I do feel your frustration. It happens to me all the time, either available here and nowhere else, or the reverse. Or else it's something ridiculously expensive. ETA: I bet it's The Sword in the Stone. |
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03-01-2019, 10:15 PM | #11 |
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
Kobo blurb Every town on Discworld knows the stories about rats and pipers, and Maurice - a streetwise tomcat - leads a band of educated ratty friends (and a stupid kid) on a nice little earner. Piper plus rats equals lots and lots of money. Until they run across someone playing a different tune. Now he and his rats must learn a new concept: evil . . . I really loved this story for being a kids' story that didn't condescend. I found it as edgy as Dahl, but without the malicious edge that often seems part of his work. And as someone who is constantly irked by the brothers Grimm being remembered as "tale tellers" instead of "painstaking, ground-breaking linguistic researchers", I loved the Grim sisters. A fun retelling of the Hameln story, with Pratchett's trademark humour, but (possibly because of its target age group) less overtly political than many of his works of the same era. Kobo $9.62CDN, $11.99AUD, £4.99GBP, unable to find US price Kindle: AU $11.99 (possibly USD), £4.99GBP, CDN$8.99 - may be unavailable at Amazon US? Last edited by stuartjmz; 03-01-2019 at 10:19 PM. |
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It is not The Sword in the Stone, although I was considering it until I saw that The Once and Future King is over 600 pages. I'm not sure if the Sword is available separately or not. I plan on reading it this year because I never have before (although I really like the Disney movie). I was going to nominate The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart which, of the ones I have read, is my favorite of the Arthur (or specifically Merlin) retellings. I think I am going to look for some non-US/UK stories instead though. My eldest is in an all day competition tomorrow which means I have a full day of sitting in the bleachers to look forward to and I will try to find something then. For now, I am going to second The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents. |
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I third The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
Dazrin, you remind me that I could re-nominate Victor Canning's re-telling of King Arthur in The Crimson Chalice (I love this being such a primitive take on the story) ... but I seem to remember there being availability problems, and anyway, I am still exploring a few other options. There are almost too many options and I have a decision making disorder |
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