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Originally Posted by Lynx-lynx
[...] My voting choice is limited to 3 books (currently) read for the 1901-1910 period - Grahame, Montgomery, and Richardson. So that means that my choice for 'best' will only considered as a children's or young adult book. (I've posted before that I'd read only two books, I miscounted  )
That doesn't concern me because I chose my book based on what 'best talked to me about my country, my people and their thoughts and attitudes', and can now, in the final vote, choose to retain my original premise, or consider another premise for this (and ensuing) decade/s. (gmw, you'd be aware that as a nation we don't seem to discuss and seriously consider our own authors works as frequently as we do other authors works, so for this vote I changed the balance. And I guess that some may consider that as a xenophobic attitude - nope!)
For those prospective voters who have read a lot of the list, say half and above, well they seem, to me, to be in a position to identify 'best' according to a more stringent criteria. And I don't necessarily envy that!!  |
One of the problems I have with the the early decades is lack of recent experience. For example, in the 1901..1910 selection I
think I may have read six or seven of the nominations, but most were a very long time ago and so now I'm not completely certain if I actually read them or just read about them. There are a few nominations that came up where it was a matter of "oh, that's right, I remember that one!".
Yes, I did pay particular attention to your list. You had me feeling guilty for not considering a few of them - that memory problem again. I ended up making my nominations mostly from books I've read in the last decade or so, because that's how long I've been keeping a reasonable record of what I have been reading.