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View Poll Results: Multiple Choice - Which region should we use for nominations this month? | |||
Sub-Saharan Africa | 2 | 18.18% | |
North Africa & The Middle East | 1 | 9.09% | |
Southeast Europe | 3 | 27.27% | |
Portugal, Belgium, The Netherlands, Spain & France | 1 | 9.09% | |
North & Central Europe | 1 | 9.09% | |
Ireland & The U.K. | 1 | 9.09% | |
Canada & The U.S.A. | 9 | 81.82% | |
The South Pacific | 2 | 18.18% | |
Southeast Asia | 4 | 36.36% | |
Japan | 2 | 18.18% | |
The Korean Peninsula, Mongolia & China | 2 | 18.18% | |
South Asia | 2 | 18.18% | |
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02-01-2013, 11:08 PM | #16 |
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I don't know what colour he is!
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The usual colour...(for a frog).
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And since we are on the topic, another work that deals with the topic very sensitively I think is The woodsman, in case you are interested (a movie, though). |
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02-02-2013, 08:38 AM | #22 |
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Lolita Go Go Go
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02-02-2013, 11:33 AM | #23 | |
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- Not everyone does follow every thread here. I wanted to make them aware of this idea that arose in the other thread. I had the impression that the idea was well received there, but I might have erred. - I personally think, one can't only praise an idea or discuss endlessly we could do this, we could do that, if the opportunity comes up, one should become active. That was all. It was a proposal and could well have been refused. And I didn't want to make any confusion with the regions. If Lolita doesn't fit this category, okay. Then we would have found a more fitting month. |
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02-02-2013, 11:45 AM | #24 |
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I think the various positions on Lolita and Nabokov have been explained, but I'm going to add a few comments.
Since this isn't the Olympics (where some of the citizenship machinations are clearly contrary to the spirit of the games), I think we should embrace the squishiness. There are four determining factors that I see: place of birth, citizenship, language, and setting. After noting all of those, I think gut reaction serves better than hard and fast rules, which would rule out too many highly worthy works. Your gut might differ from someone else's digestive processes, but I still think it works best. I also think that for a category whose purpose was to broaden horizons, including the US and the UK was always problematic. Again a situation with no perfect solution and I understand the decision that having them was better than holes on the map. I hope when it's the UK/Ireland's turn that Ireland (or at least Scotland or Wales) gets the nod and I'll nominate a couple of Canadian works this time. And who knows? Mitt Romney has $25,000 in fireworks sitting in a warehouse in New Hampshire. But if we are to have a US work in this categry, I'd much rather a Lolita than a garden-variety book club tome. Finally, there's a strike while the iron is hot aspect. With all the current interest and discussion of Lolita, it seems a shame not to act on it now. I think we were lucky that the category for the Lit Club this month will allow it to be nominated, and it's probably a better fit at the Lit Club than the main club. |
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Nominations have been open since the poll closed about ten hours ago, but in case you guys were waiting for confirmation -
Canada & the U.S.A. has been chosen as the region and the floor is open to nominations! Quote:
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I would go one step further on your last sentence though. We're a discerning group and while there are no shortage of garden-variety book club tomes from the U.S. and Canada, there are also no shortage of great literary works old and new, well-known and obscure, to choose from. Last edited by sun surfer; 02-02-2013 at 12:24 PM. |
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It will be interesting to see what we come up with as the group of nominations that come from having this as a region. I'm mulling some possibilities as we speak... |
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I'm nominating Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich by Canadian humorist Stephen Leacock. From Goodreads:
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An aside: As a sign of the times, autocorrect changed Arcadian to Kardashian. |
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uh, nominations already - but just to be clear, is The Unmentionable allowed for this region or not?
EDIT: while waiting for this to be clarified, I will second Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich and nominate one work from my TBR pile - ashamedly, I haven't read Catch-22, so this is my first nomination. From wikipedia: Quote:
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