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sun surfer · 11-03-2015, 11:22 PM

I second Short Stories. Bookpossum, do you have a Goodreads link for it? There are a few similar collections listed and I want to make sure to link to the right one.

I'll also offer a second nomination. I hesitated since this is only in pbook and since I'd just nominated this in the other club, but the lit club may be a better fit for it: Memoirs of Hadrian by Margeurite Yourcenar, from Belgium. I've wanted to read this for awhile now; it was nominated and ended only one vote away from winning in the lit club some years ago.

From Goodreads:

Both an exploration of character and a reflection on the meaning of history, Memoirs of Hadrian has received international acclaim since its first publication in France in 1951. In it, Marguerite Yourcenar reimagines the Emperor Hadrian's arduous boyhood, his triumphs and reversals, and finally, as emperor, his gradual reordering of a war-torn world, writing with the imaginative insight of a great writer of the twentieth century while crafting a prose style as elegant and precise as those of the Latin stylists of Hadrian's own era.

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11-03-2015, 11:22 PM	#9
sun surfer languorous autodidact ✦ Posts: 4,235 Karma: 44667380 Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: smiling with the rising sun Device: onyx boox poke 2 colour, kindle voyage	I second Short Stories. Bookpossum, do you have a Goodreads link for it? There are a few similar collections listed and I want to make sure to link to the right one. I'll also offer a second nomination. I hesitated since this is only in pbook and since I'd just nominated this in the other club, but the lit club may be a better fit for it: Memoirs of Hadrian by Margeurite Yourcenar, from Belgium. I've wanted to read this for awhile now; it was nominated and ended only one vote away from winning in the lit club some years ago. From Goodreads: Both an exploration of character and a reflection on the meaning of history, Memoirs of Hadrian has received international acclaim since its first publication in France in 1951. In it, Marguerite Yourcenar reimagines the Emperor Hadrian's arduous boyhood, his triumphs and reversals, and finally, as emperor, his gradual reordering of a war-torn world, writing with the imaginative insight of a great writer of the twentieth century while crafting a prose style as elegant and precise as those of the Latin stylists of Hadrian's own era. Goodreads Last edited by sun surfer; 11-03-2015 at 11:30 PM.