Help us select what the MR Literary Club will read in July 2016!
Also, this is more or less (technically, it was last month) our fifth anniversary! Thanks to everyone who's been a part of the club over the years.
The category for this month is:
Open
*Please note the changes to our process, as detailed below.*
-Nominations will run for three days.-
You may offer up to two nominations. All nominees will move forward to the vote with no need for support from others.
Once nominations are complete, voting will begin and also occur in this thread.
-Voting will then run for four days.-
I will make a post to open voting. The vote will close exactly four days from that post; even if the final tally doesn't occur immediately after voting closes, no votes made after that time will count.
Votes will be made by post. You will have a number of votes to cast equal to the number of nominees minus one, which will be specified when the vote begins. You may give each nominee one or two (or no) votes. You may vote all at once in one post or vote in separate posts at different times, so long as you have more votes remaining to cast. You may use any number of your possible votes up to the maximum. Any extraneous votes per person (past their maximum or more than two for one nominee) won't count. Votes cannot be changed once they are cast.
*Since this is a new process, feel free to ask questions at any time.* If you vote for the winner it is hoped that you will read the selection with the club and join in the discussion.
Once voting is complete, the count will be tallied and a winner declared. In the event of a tie, there will be a one-day run-off vote, also in this thread. If the run-off also ends in a tie, then the tie will be resolved in favour of the selection that was nominated first.
What is literature for the purposes of this club? A superior work of lasting merit that enriches the mind. Often it is important, challenging, critically acclaimed. It may be from ancient times to today; it may be from anywhere in the world; it may be obscure or famous, short or long; it may be a story, a novel, a play, a poem, an essay or another written form. If you are unsure if a work would be considered literature, just ask!
The floor is now open!
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Nominations and voting are now closed. Final results:
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
Post / Goodreads / 399 pages / Votes- 8
- Howards End by E.M. Forster
Post / Goodreads / 339 pages / Votes- 5
- The Scarlet Plague by Jack London
Post / Goodreads / 095 pages / Votes- 5
- Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke
Post / Goodreads / 228 pages / Votes- 4
- The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G.K. Chesterton
Post / Goodreads / 186 pages / Votes- 5
- The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin
Post / Goodreads / 180 pages / Votes- 3
- Rain and Other South Sea Stories by W. Somerset Maugham
Post / Goodreads / 221 pages / Votes- 2
- Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain-Fournier
Post / Goodreads / 251 pages / Votes- 6
- The Charioteer by Mary Renault
Post / Goodreads / 372 pages / Votes- 2
- Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
Post / Goodreads / 194 pages / Votes- 3