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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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02-02-2013, 01:59 PM | #31 |
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As in, starting with "LOL" and ending with "ITA"?. Yes.
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02-02-2013, 02:03 PM | #32 |
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Nominate Lolita. Yeah, I'm first. Second Catch 22.
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02-02-2013, 02:16 PM | #33 | |
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second Lolita - wonder how long it'll take for it to be fully nominated .
Also nominate The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck - from Goodreads Quote:
EDIT: while looking for a copy on Mobileread I stumbled upon the Book Club nomination thread for December - quite a coincidence, i did not know. But if you've already gone through the nomination with this one, glad to withdraw it. Last edited by paola; 02-02-2013 at 02:19 PM. |
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02-02-2013, 02:29 PM | #34 |
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I'm shocked, shocked to think that people would want to read that pedophile's handbook.
Third Lolita. |
02-02-2013, 02:39 PM | #35 |
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I'll third Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich by Stephen Leacock. I've always enjoyed his work.
I'll second Catch 22. |
02-02-2013, 03:01 PM | #36 | |
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An ebook version was released last year by Open Road, so you should be able to find it in all the ebookstores. Overdrive has it, so some public libraries should have copies. Fourth Lolita. Last edited by Synamon; 02-02-2013 at 03:03 PM. |
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02-02-2013, 03:07 PM | #37 |
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I'll fourth Arcadian Adventures.
As I was just now quickly updating the first post with the all the nominations post by post, I noticed as I was updating through the next post that I had accidentally listed supporters of the Nabokov book as - Hamlet53, paola, Lolita. That's actually a third. |
02-02-2013, 03:10 PM | #38 |
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02-02-2013, 03:18 PM | #39 | |
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Sorry if you think we are hijacking this month, but Lolita doesn't actually fit in any other categories here except Open. Unless you want to exclude it entirely, Region is the best option. |
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02-02-2013, 03:43 PM | #40 |
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Oh my god. I just realised I have made a huge mistake. February was supposed to be Time Period! We were supposed to have Region twice this year, first in November and then again half a year away in May, and like last year have Time Period for February (and the complementary Contemporary category half a year away in September). Somehow I listed November, February and May all as Region on the category list.
As you'll see here, I listed the categories correctly when first announcing the most recent category list in the "Begins" thread. The mistake was made transferring the list to the "The MR Literary Club • Welcome, Information & General Discussion" thread, probably last summer on the very same day I posted the refreshed categories in the "Begins" thread and the mistake has never been noticed until now. Thank you Synamon because your post alerted me. I was about to post about how Time Period would actually be a perfect category for Lolita, then thought I'd see when we'll have that category, and realised the mistake almost immediately after that. My apologies. There's no reason to interrupt what we've already started this month so my first instinct is to have February stay as Region and have Time Period in May this year - does that sound good to everyone? |
02-02-2013, 03:47 PM | #41 |
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I'll second The Good Earth.
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02-02-2013, 03:52 PM | #42 | |
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02-02-2013, 03:52 PM | #43 |
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I'll nominate Old Man and The Sea by Hemingway.
I'll also nominate The Colour Purple by Alice Walker. |
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I'll nominate Up From Slavery by Booker T Washington. Here's the Amazon review:
Nineteenth-century African American businessman, activist, and educator Booker Taliaferro Washington's Up from Slavery is one of the greatest American autobiographies ever written. Its mantras of black economic empowerment, land ownership, and self-help inspired generations of black leaders, including Marcus Garvey, Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X, and Louis Farrakhan. In rags-to-riches fashion, Washington recounts his ascendance from early life as a mulatto slave in Virginia to a 34-year term as president of the influential, agriculturally based Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. From that position, Washington reigned as the most important leader of his people, with slogans like "cast down your buckets," which emphasized vocational merit rather than the academic and political excellence championed by his contemporary rival W.E.B. Du Bois. Though many considered him too accommodating to segregationists, Washington, as he said in his historic "Atlanta Compromise" speech of 1895, believed that "political agitation alone would not save [the Negro]," and that "property, industry, skill, intelligence, and character" would prove necessary to black Americans' success. The potency of his philosophies are alive today in the nationalist and conservative camps that compose the complex quilt of black American society. It's in the public domain Last edited by fantasyfan; 02-02-2013 at 04:09 PM. |
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