05-14-2014, 03:22 PM | #121 |
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Who would like to take their turn selecting the nominations for the upcoming rotating month in June?
(if you have any questions, you can refer to the first post or just ask) |
05-20-2014, 01:00 PM | #122 | |
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05-20-2014, 07:19 PM | #123 |
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I had hoped to claim August for various reasons. But if no one else wants June, I can get my ducks, such as they are, in a row this upcoming holiday weekend.
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05-20-2014, 11:25 PM | #124 |
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Thanks for volunteering issybird. Perhaps then we'll give it to the weekend, and in lieu of anyone else offering by that time we'll consider you the volunteer for June?
ETA - I haven't heard a response from issybird yet, but I hope she's still interested, and since the weekend has passed and no one else has offered and she did, I'll consider her our June volunteer. issybird, June is yours! I'll ask for your nominations at the beginning of the month. Last edited by sun surfer; 05-26-2014 at 01:01 PM. |
05-28-2014, 05:52 PM | #125 |
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I would like to take a go at doing rotating nominations, but not until I almost finish my over-zealous challenge for this year.
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05-28-2014, 05:58 PM | #126 | |
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05-29-2014, 11:36 AM | #127 | |
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No problem; I did that to prevent a double post but the ETA was a bit snuck in. Looking forward to the nominations! |
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06-01-2014, 12:12 AM | #128 |
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It's time for June's selections. issybird, what choices do you have for us?
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06-01-2014, 05:05 AM | #129 |
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I'm really looking forward to what issybird comes up with.
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06-01-2014, 06:12 AM | #130 |
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06-01-2014, 06:49 AM | #131 |
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Me too!
That sounds like a really interesting theme, desertblues! |
06-01-2014, 08:38 AM | #132 |
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This month marks the hundredth anniversary of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the flashpoint for the global tragedy of the Great War, and I wanted to have a Great War theme as both timely and reflecting a personal interest. I wasn’t entirely enamored of the notion of a slate of the obvious literary works, such as Sassoon, Graves et al., in part because people will have read some and not others. However, what gets overlooked is that women were also involved in the war effort and had their own unique and transformative experiences. Paul Fussell in his seminal The Great War and Modern Memory dismissed women’s accounts and while I acknowledge they were outside the scope of his luminous work, I think they deserve wider readership than the denizens of women’s studies departments.
My slate is something of a mash-up of contemporary first-person accounts and novelizations plus a couple of later oral histories, keeping in mind the literary nature of our club while also trying to provide different aspects of women’s war experiences. Unfortunately, ebook availability is a little problematic for some. “Traveling” is the solution in a few cases; in others, there are cheap used paper copies, but I haven’t checked all markets. In alphabetical order by author or editor according to publisher listing; most of the descriptions are from Goodreads or Amazon: Fighting on the Home Front: The Legacy of Women in World War One*, Kate Adie. Spoiler:
*Thanks to Bookpossum for bringing this book to my attention. A Diary without Dates, by Enid Bagnold. Spoiler:
Testament of Youth, by Vera Brittain. Spoiler:
A Nurse at the Front: The First World War Diaries of Sister Edith Appleton, by Ruth Cowen (ed.) Spoiler:
The Roses of No-Man’s Land by Lyn Macdonald Spoiler:
We That Were Young, by Irene Rathbone. Spoiler:
Home Fires Burning: The Great War Diaries of Georgina Lee, 1914-1919, by Gavin Roynon (ed.) Spoiler:
Not So Quiet…., by Helen Zenna Smith (pseudonym of Australian Evadne Price) Spoiler:
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06-01-2014, 08:45 AM | #133 |
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I want to read/reread them all. You have given us tough choices here issybird.
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06-01-2014, 09:14 AM | #134 |
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A wonderful list, issybird! All these books are new to me. A difficult choice.
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06-01-2014, 09:19 AM | #135 |
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Great list indeed! And all new to me as well.
This is only the fourth or fifth month I've been a part of the book club and I must say that one of my favourite activities is looking up all of the selections and figuring out which I want most to read. Thanks Issybird for being so thoughtful with the selections. |
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