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The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton |
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5 | 41.67% |
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather |
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6 | 50.00% |
Roughing It by Mark Twain |
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5 | 41.67% |
Burning Daylight by Jack London |
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5 | 41.67% |
Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana Jr. |
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5 | 41.67% |
Ramona by Helen Hunt Jackson |
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2 | 16.67% |
Washington Square by Henry James |
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3 | 25.00% |
A Country Doctor by Sarah Orne Jewett |
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4 | 33.33% |
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Bookworm_Girl Vote • October 2014
Help choose the October 2014 selection to read for the MR Literary Club! The poll will be open for three days and a discussion thread will begin shortly after a winner is chosen.
The vote is multiple choice. You may vote for as many or as few as you like. If you vote for the winner it is hoped that you will read the selection with the club and/or join in the discussion. The rotating nominator (this month - Bookworm_Girl) may not vote in the poll. In the event of a tie, there will be a one-day non-multiple-choice run-off poll where the rotating nominator again may not vote. If the run-off also ends in a tie then the tie will be resolved by the rotating nominator. Select from the following works: The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton (1910) Spoiler:
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather (1913) Spoiler:
Roughing It by Mark Twain (1872) Spoiler:
Burning Daylight by Jack London (1910) Spoiler:
Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana Jr. (1840) Spoiler:
Ramona by Helen Hunt Jackson (1884) Spoiler:
Washington Square by Henry James (1880) Spoiler:
A Country Doctor by Sarah Orne Jewett (1884) Spoiler:
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gosh, that was tough! thanks Bookworm_Girl, great list!
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I agree! I voted for four of them but won't mind whichever one gets up.
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Difficult, difficult. I rather like Edith Wharton, so I choose her book.
I passed on on Mark Twain, though I read his Huckleberry Finn and all from an early age on, but I really am not so in autobiographies, to tell the truth. Being from a medical background before my cultural profession, I am rather intrigued by Countrydoctor by Sarah Orne Jewett, and as for Henry James: who can resist a good love story? ![]() |
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Nice selection to make choices from. I decided to just go with authors that I have never read. One exception being A Country Doctor by Sarah Orne Jewett. Perhaps my apologies are due to Jewett, but the description just put me in mind of the dreck American television show Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman. That and I have learned to be leery of any book the review of which includes the word “luminous.”
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I'm still thinking. One book was already on my to-read list (Dana) and I'd prefer not to do a re-read (although I'll be happy with any selection, of course).
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Still one day to go before the final?
![]() I think that O' Pioneers is a strong contender, and I didn't vote for it as I recently read some 'prairie' book of John Williams---Stoner and Butcher's Crossing. Well, it's all in the game! ![]() |
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The poll is closed now. I wasn't sure which way it was going to go until the end! I am pleased with the outcome and looking forward to the month.
![]() I have lived most of my life in the Western US. I have lived in many states: on the Mississippi River and on the Pacific coast as well as adjacent to both the Canadian and Mexican borders. Therefore I love this whole expansive region and not particularly any single region. The book on the list that I most wanted to share was Ramona. This book was one of my favorite reads last year. It is similar to A Secret River and Fools Crow. I learned much history about the clash amongst the Mexican, Spanish, Indian and American cultures as California became a U.S. state. There is also a beautiful tale of forbidden love between two races woven in with the history. I discovered this gem in the gift store of the Old Mission in Santa Barbara, CA. http://www.santabarbaramission.org/ I discovered Willa Cather in New Mexico while visiting Albuquerque - Santa Fe - Taos. Her descriptions of the landscape are so vivid, and I enjoyed reading Death Comes to the Archbishop while traveling through this area at the same time. I selected a book by Sarah Orne Jewett because of her influence on Willa Cather. I knew I had to have a Mark Twain book on the list since he's a big influence on every kid's reading where I grew up. I discovered Roughing It in a display of Twain's books while exploring the old mining town of Virginia City, Nevada. Spoiler:
In January I watched the TV mini-series Klondike on the Discovery channel which was based on Charlotte Gray's non-fiction book Gold Diggers: Striking It Rich in the Klondike. Highly recommend this show! Jack London is one of the main characters and keeps repeating the phrase "burning daylight." Richard Madden stars as Bill Haskell, one of the most successful miners from the Klondike rush. You may know Madden as Robb Stark from Game of Thrones. I share this info because the real Bill Haskell's memoir was absolutely riveting and one of my favorite reads of this year. This subtitle "thrilling narrative" is no exaggeration! Madden mentions reading Haskell's book to prepare for the role. http://www.amazon.com/Years-Klondike...skell+Klondike http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/liv...-stunts-672552 Richard Dana Jr.'s book has been mentioned in multiple books I've read in the last year so I figured that I should read it someday! Wharton and James have been on my TBR list for ages, and I keep meaning to get to several of their books! |
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thanks for the explanation!
I am still far behind with Cixi, however I may as well load the pioneers - there is a Gutenberg/feedbooks version available form the goodreads link, or the whole trilogy in epub on MR (there are other formats on MR too). |
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Interesting background to your choices, Bookworm_Girl - thank you! I have had Willa Cather on my TBR list for quite some time, so am very happy with the outcome. However, I'll be adding some of your others to my Kobo while I'm at it!
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The discussion thread is up here.
Interesting explanations, Bookworm_Girl. Henry James is one of my favourite authors; the only reason I didn't vote for Washington Square is because I've already read it (and by the way, when I lived in New York I was there quite often). Your insight on Ramona makes me wish I would've voted for it as well but I'm very much looking forward to the Cather. ETA - Bookworm_Girl, it looks like Goodreads is following your lead. I added O Pioneers! to my Goodreads shelf earlier, and when I just now went to Goodreads this was at the top of my Recent Updates: Quote:
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