My votes:
-2 to Two Old Women
-2 to The Year of Magical Thinking
-2 to The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
-1 to Angle of Repose
-1 to Drums of Mer
-1 to For the Term of His Natural Life
I really like the sample I read of Two Old Women and the description, coming out of nowhere as I'd never heard of it before. I've also been wanting to try Joan Didion forever and would love to read The Year of Magical Thinking. As well, The Thousand Autumns has been on my radar before because I've read two other Mitchell books, both for book clubs here- Black Swan Green and Cloud Atlas. I like both (I loved Cloud Atlas), like his writing style and really like the description of this one.
The rest of my votes comes from a dearth of more to give. I've had Angle of Repose on my tbr forever and would love to read it. The sample of Drums of Mer pulled me in right away. I didn't really know about For the Term before the nomination, but I really like the idea of reading about early Australia as one of the convicts moved there. I loved Middlemarch, one of my favourite books, and haven't read any other Eliot so would love a chance to do so. As mentioned in the other thread, I love Robinson Crusoe, and this would be a great chance to revisit it. The main conflict in Concrete Island starts without narrative preamble in the sample and plunges right in.
As for An Island to Oneself, I would love to read it, but I didn't realise it wasn't an ebook. It's not against the guidelines or anything, but I would've probably nominated the Eco instead if I'd realised that, as even the used pbooks of An Island to Oneself seem rare-book level pricey. So, oops!
