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Nominations for February 2020 • It Takes Two to Tango: Collaborations
Good morning and Happy New Year to all New Leafers! I'm a little behind my time, as I'd got on my stationery bicycle before I remembered it was the first of the month as well as the first of the year. How's that for keeping a resolution? Hope you're all doing as well! ![]() It's time for us select the book that the New Leaf Book Club will read in February 2020. The theme is It Takes Two to Tango: Collaborations. 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, January 7, 2020. 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 February 15, 2020. 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: Something Wonderful: Rodgers and Hammerstein's Broadway Revolution by Todd S. Purdum [Catlady, issybird, Bookpossum] Amazon U.S. $9.99 Spoiler:
400 pp.
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery [Victoria, CRussel, fantasy fan] Public domain Spoiler:
320 pp.
Local Custom by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller [CRussel, Victoria, gmw] Amazon US $6.99; Amazon CA $8.51; Amazon UK £4.60; Amazon AU $8.94; BaenEbooks.com $6.99; Audible US $1.99 (WS) Spoiler:
384 pp.
Samarkand by Amin Maalouf (tr. Russell Harris) [issybird, Bookpossum, Bookworm_Girl] US $3.99; Canada $10.99; Australia $12.99; UK £3.99 Spoiler:
304 pp.
The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling [Bookworm_Girl, fantasy fan, gmw] US$11.99 Spoiler:
429 pp.
Wakulla Springs by Andy Duncan and Ellen Klages [gmw, Victoria, CRussel] US$2.99; CA$2.99; GB£2.35; AU$4.05; Tor (online) free Spoiler:
193 pp.
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Choices with one or two nominations:
*Through the Gates of the Silver Key: the Best Collaborations and Ghost Writings of H. P. Lovecraft By H.P. Lovecraft; ed. Cameron Walker [fantasy fan] Amazon UK £2.31; Amazon US $3.O0 Spoiler:
344 pp.
**The Girls by Lori Lansens [Catlady, Bookworm_Girl] US$9.99 Spoiler:
352 pp.
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Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a nice holiday.
I’m going to put my oar in first ![]() Two reasons. First, this brother / sister team are unlikely collaborators, and quite unprepared when they find themselves at mid-life suddenly raising a precocious child. Second, February can often use a lift, and it’s an optimistic and often quite funny book. From Amazon.com: “When Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert of Green Gables, Prince Edward Island, send for a boy orphan to help them out at the farm, they are in no way prepared for the error that will change their lives. The mistake takes the shape of Anne Shirley, a redheaded 11-year-old girl who can talk anyone under the table. Fortunately, her sunny nature and quirky imagination quickly win over her reluctant foster parents. Anne's feisty spirit soon draws many friends--and much trouble--her way. Not a day goes by without some melodramatic new episode in the tragicomedy of her life.” Public domain. |
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OK, I have a confession to make. Even though I am a Canadian, I've never read Anne. I actually did start it shortly after moving here, but never managed to finish it -- mostly because other things got in the way. So I'll second Anne as a way to encourage me to pick it up again. Really, this is such an iconic Canadian novel, I really should read it.
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I'd like to nominate a book by my favourite collaborative pair of authors, Sharon Lee and Steve Miller. Plus, it's the start of a collaboration of (space) pilots, so it fits the category two different ways. Oh, and it's a great read!
Local Custom Quote:
Amazon CA: $8.51 CDN Amazon UK: £4.60 GBP Amazon AU: $8.94 AUD BaenEbooks.com: $6.99 USD (All Formats, DRM-Free) Audible US (Narrator - Bernadette Dunne): 1 credit or $1.99 WhisperSync Overdrive: Yes, FINALLY! Check your library, but even there it's DRM-Free. If they don't have it, recommend it. Unlike some publishers, Baen isn't gouging libraries, or limiting the number of loans before the license ends. Kobo: Check your country. Prices should correspond directly to the Amazon prices listed above. Or just get your ePub directly from Baen. Length: 384 pages While this is officially Liaden Universe #5 according to Goodreads, it is, in fact, very much a stand-alone book that is an excellent entry point into the Liaden Universe. It is, officially, a "space opera", but also a romance very much in the style of Georgette Heyer. And, as I said above, an excellent read. Last edited by CRussel; 01-01-2020 at 03:37 PM. |
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I second Local Custom. It’s an excellent entry point into a great series, and one of my favourites.
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I nominate a book about perhaps the greatest musical collaborators of the twentieth century: Something Wonderful: Rodgers and Hammerstein's Broadway Revolution by Todd S. Purdum (2018, 400 pp.).
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So I wanted to nominate a book called The Collaborator by Diane Armstrong; it seems reasonably priced in Kobo US and CA, and normally priced in AU - despite having been published fairly late in 2019. But it does not seem to have arrived in the UK (Kobo GB) yet.
While looking at that, I saw another book called The Collaborator, this one by Mirza Waheed. It's sounds like a good fit for this theme and this club ... but while it's available in Kobo AU and GB, no sign of it in CA or US. .... So I 'm still looking. |
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I did wonder if it might be okay, but didn't like to presume as fantasyfan sometimes joins in. It may still come to that, but I do still have a novella in mind as well (author collaboration rather than character collaboration).
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Oh ... whoops. I didn't notice that, just the unexpectedly low price. Thanks.
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I wanted to try to get outside my personal typical fare and also come up with something outside our usual anglophone choices and I've settled on Samarkand by Amin Maalouf, a French-Lebanese writer. (Russell Harris, translator) I'm looking upon the poet and the judge in the blurb as the tangoing twosome.
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Cheap in the US and UK; somewhat dearer in Canada and Australia. US $3.99; Canada $10.99; Australia $12.99; UK £3.99 304 pp. |
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