Happy New Year everyone! Here's to 2017 being a great reading year!
Help us select what the MR Literary Club will read in January 2017!
The category for this month is:
Contemporary (2001-Present)
-Nominations will run for three days.-
You may offer up to two nominations. All nominees (so long as they are within the category) 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 in this thread 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.
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.
We hope that you will read the selection with the club and join in the discussion.
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 is now open!
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Nominations are closed. Voting is closed. Final results:
- About Grace by Anthony Doerr, 2004
Post / Goodreads / 420 Pages / Votes- 3
- The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan, 2013
Post / Goodreads / 391 Pages / Votes- 5
- Nora Webster by Colm Tóibín, 2014
Post / Goodreads / 371 Pages / Votes- 7
- The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht, 2011
Post / Goodreads / 342 Pages / Votes- 1
- All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld, 2013
Post / Goodreads / 238 Pages / Votes- 5
- A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki, 2013
Post / Goodreads / 422 Pages / Votes- 3