Literary issybird Run-Off • June 2014

sun surfer · 06-04-2014, 04:14 PM

Help us choose the June 2014 selection to read for the MR Literary Club! The run-off poll will be open for one day.

The run-off vote is single-choice. A discussion thread will begin shortly after a winner is chosen.

The rotating nominator (this month - issybird) may not vote in the poll. In the event of a tie, the tie will be resolved by the rotating nominator.

Select from the following works:

A Diary without Dates by Enid Bagnold

Spoiler:

Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain

Spoiler:

HomeInMyShoes · 06-04-2014, 04:44 PM

Thinking this might be a runaway based on availability, but we'll see.

Billi · 06-04-2014, 05:06 PM

And perhaps on thickness. The Vera-Brittain-book has more than 600 pages. I am still undecided.

paola · 06-04-2014, 05:08 PM

tough, tough choice - I voted fro Brittain, but I'll be happy with either.

Bookworm_Girl · 06-04-2014, 06:02 PM

Both books seem to be available in many countries. I'm sticking with my original vote. All the choices for this month sounded fascinating, and I couldn't resist adding to my TBR list!

HomeInMyShoes · 06-05-2014, 11:54 AM

My budget is not allowing me to purchase books and my library has no ebook for Testament of Youth. I'm not sure I'm up for 600 as well.

ccowie · 06-05-2014, 12:51 PM

I just picked up a copy from my local library. I quickly read the first chapter and I think I'll really enjoy it. Unfortunately it's like carrying a bar fridge. I'll probably last about three more chapters before breaking down and coughing up $18 at Kobo. Choke choke!

Bookworm_Girl · 06-05-2014, 01:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ccowie

I just picked up a copy from my local library. I quickly read the first chapter and I think I'll really enjoy it. Unfortunately it's like carrying a bar fridge. I'll probably last about three more chapters before breaking down and coughing up $18 at Kobo. Choke choke!

Kobo's prices often seem higher than other options, at least in the US. The Kindle edition appears to be $12.99 CDN.

HomeInMyShoes · 06-05-2014, 02:22 PM

$12.99 at Amazon in Canada. Kobo usually has coupons floating around, but the $18 is atrocious as a starting point.

My book budget is not going to allow me to buy it, so it would be the bar fridge option from the library if I get around to this.

paola · 06-05-2014, 03:57 PM

would you believe it, lucky those who live in Mexico, as over there every books is couponable and there is at leat a 50% coupon working (SAV50). Not to mention the lucky ones in India, where it is also couponable and after the discount it is 450.00 rupees, and one can even use paypal... ah, if only one could travel....

issybird · 06-05-2014, 06:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by HomeInMyShoes

My budget is not allowing me to purchase books and my library has no ebook for Testament of Youth. I'm not sure I'm up for 600 as well.

Never fear, I'm sure Testament is readily available at your local library, as an interlibrary loan if nothing else.

Quote:

Originally Posted by ccowie

I just picked up a copy from my local library. I quickly read the first chapter and I think I'll really enjoy it. Unfortunately it's like carrying a bar fridge. I'll probably last about three more chapters before breaking down and coughing up $18 at Kobo. Choke choke!

Well, I own copies in both paperback and hardback and I require more capacity in my bar fridge.

desertblues · 06-06-2014, 05:15 AM

$8,99 at Amazon.com. That is doable for me and it looks to be a great book.

Bookpossum · 06-06-2014, 05:40 AM

It is. I read it many years ago and found it very moving indeed.

HomeInMyShoes · 06-06-2014, 10:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by issybird

Never fear, I'm sure Testament is readily available at your local library, as an interlibrary loan if nothing else.

It is available as paper from the library. 600 pages has me daunted though. I still have 24 countries left in my challenge this year and this one would be a duplicate country. It would have been a better choice than what I did, but it's not like I haven't read anything worthy from the United Kingdom.

I've also already got three paper library books out that I need to finish before they are due.

I'm just making excuses. Is it working?

Bookworm_Girl · 06-06-2014, 10:29 AM

You could try a few chapters and see how engaging it is or how fast it reads. Your global reading challenge sounds very interesting. Best of luck to you!

View Poll Results: issybird Run-Off • June 2014, Single Choice
A Diary without Dates by Enid Bagnold	5	41.67%
Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain	7	58.33%
Voters: 12. You may not vote on this poll

06-04-2014, 04:14 PM	#1
sun surfer languorous autodidact ✦ Posts: 4,235 Karma: 44637926 Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: smiling with the rising sun Device: onyx boox poke 2 colour, kindle voyage	issybird Run-Off • June 2014 Help us choose the June 2014 selection to read for the MR Literary Club! The run-off poll will be open for one day. The run-off vote is single-choice. A discussion thread will begin shortly after a winner is chosen. The rotating nominator (this month - issybird) may not vote in the poll. In the event of a tie, the tie will be resolved by the rotating nominator. Select from the following works: A Diary without Dates by Enid Bagnold Spoiler: Bagnold, of National Velvet fame, published her short account of her experiences as a war nurse in 1917 and was fired as a result. Free at Project Gutenberg. Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain Spoiler: Much of what we know and feel about the First World War we owe to Vera Brittain's elegiac yet unsparing book. Abandoning her studies at Oxford in 1915 to enlist as a nurse in the armed services, Brittain served in London, in Malta, and on the Western Front. By war's end she had lost virtually everyone she loved. Testament of Youth is both a record of what she lived through and an elegy for a vanished generation. Hailed by the Times Literary Supplement as a book that helped “both form and define the mood of its time,” it speaks to any generation that has been irrevocably changed by war.

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06-04-2014, 04:44 PM	#2
HomeInMyShoes Grand Sorcerer Posts: 19,226 Karma: 67780237 Join Date: Jul 2011 Device: none	Thinking this might be a runaway based on availability, but we'll see.

06-04-2014, 05:06 PM	#3
Billi Wizard Posts: 3,388 Karma: 14190103 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Berlin Device: Cybook, iRex, PB, Onyx	And perhaps on thickness. The Vera-Brittain-book has more than 600 pages. I am still undecided.

06-04-2014, 05:08 PM	#4
paola Wizard Posts: 2,824 Karma: 5843878 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: UK Device: Pocketbook Pro 903, (beloved Pocketbook 360 RIP), Kobo Mini, Kobo Aura	tough, tough choice - I voted fro Brittain, but I'll be happy with either.

06-04-2014, 06:02 PM	#5
Bookworm_Girl E-reader Enthusiast Posts: 4,871 Karma: 36507503 Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Southwest, USA Device: Kindle Oasis 3; Kobo Aura One; iPad Mini 5	Both books seem to be available in many countries. I'm sticking with my original vote. All the choices for this month sounded fascinating, and I couldn't resist adding to my TBR list!

06-05-2014, 11:54 AM	#6
HomeInMyShoes Grand Sorcerer Posts: 19,226 Karma: 67780237 Join Date: Jul 2011 Device: none	My budget is not allowing me to purchase books and my library has no ebook for Testament of Youth. I'm not sure I'm up for 600 as well.

06-05-2014, 12:51 PM	#7
ccowie Hiding with an ereader Posts: 391 Karma: 3987376 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Kitchener Ontario Device: Kindle Paperwhite, Sony PRS 950, Ipad 2, PRS 350	I just picked up a copy from my local library. I quickly read the first chapter and I think I'll really enjoy it. Unfortunately it's like carrying a bar fridge. I'll probably last about three more chapters before breaking down and coughing up $18 at Kobo. Choke choke!

06-05-2014, 02:22 PM	#9
HomeInMyShoes Grand Sorcerer Posts: 19,226 Karma: 67780237 Join Date: Jul 2011 Device: none	$12.99 at Amazon in Canada. Kobo usually has coupons floating around, but the $18 is atrocious as a starting point. My book budget is not going to allow me to buy it, so it would be the bar fridge option from the library if I get around to this.

06-05-2014, 03:57 PM	#10
paola Wizard Posts: 2,824 Karma: 5843878 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: UK Device: Pocketbook Pro 903, (beloved Pocketbook 360 RIP), Kobo Mini, Kobo Aura	would you believe it, lucky those who live in Mexico, as over there every books is couponable and there is at leat a 50% coupon working (SAV50). Not to mention the lucky ones in India, where it is also couponable and after the discount it is 450.00 rupees, and one can even use paypal... ah, if only one could travel....

06-06-2014, 05:15 AM	#12
desertblues Home for the moment Posts: 5,127 Karma: 27718936 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: travelling Device: various	$8,99 at Amazon.com. That is doable for me and it looks to be a great book.

06-06-2014, 05:40 AM	#13
Bookpossum Snoozing in the sun Posts: 10,137 Karma: 115423645 Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Melbourne, Australia Device: iPad Mini, Kobo Touch	It is. I read it many years ago and found it very moving indeed.

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06-06-2014, 10:29 AM	#15
Bookworm_Girl E-reader Enthusiast Posts: 4,871 Karma: 36507503 Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Southwest, USA Device: Kindle Oasis 3; Kobo Aura One; iPad Mini 5	You could try a few chapters and see how engaging it is or how fast it reads. Your global reading challenge sounds very interesting. Best of luck to you!