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I was hoping to nominate Erik Larson's Isaac's Storm or Dead Wake, but the former wasn't available everywhere, and the latter was excessively expensive in Australia. |
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I will actually bite and nominate 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Its public domain and there are many good recordings available on Librivox, Youtube, etc. I would welcome a good escapist fantasy right now.
I've read the Shipping News and it is incredibly bleak. I don't think I could read Proulx right now. It has all the things I don't want to read about - suicide, sex trafficking, domestic abuse. |
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I have a really excellent book to nominate thanks to gmw's post that reminded me of it.
I am nominating The Light Between Oceans by M. L. Steadman. Quote:
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the...tween-oceans-2 Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/Light-Between.../dp/B0064CL1T2 (available on Kindle Unlimited) Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Light-Betwe.../dp/B006WAIV4Y eBooks.com UK: https://www.ebooks.com/en-gb/book/793589 (cheaper then Amazon UK) |
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I really think that if this wins, that we should all be reading the same version and the only version I will read is the Baen version as I own it. I cannot say if this version has an audiobook edition.[/quote] Quote:
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06-03-2020, 03:19 PM | #22 |
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Jon - have you examined HarryT's version in the MR Library? Is it comparable to the Baen version?
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06-03-2020, 03:41 PM | #23 |
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06-03-2020, 04:04 PM | #25 |
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Hi everyone. I intended to rejoin last month, but just couldn’t settle into reading. So I hope late is better than never
I nominate We Keep a Light, by Evelyn M. Richardson. Born Evelyn May Fox (1902–1976), she was a Canadian author who won the Governor General's Award in non-fiction for her 1945 memoir. The book is short - only 169 pages. But I’ve had it recommended to me many times, and have been told it’s well done. From Kobo: We Keep A Light is the inspiring story of how the author and her husband bought tiny Bon Portage Island and built a happy life for themselves and their three children on the isolated lighthouse station off the southern tip of Nova Scotia. But it is much more than the story of a unique personal experience. We Keep A Light is a freshly written and engrossing record of family life set against the ever-changing background of the sea, the vagaries of the weather, the enduring shores, and the great beacon light, all of which become important characters in this fascinating and isolated world. As Evelyn Richardson remarked in the original edition, she wrote the book "partly to answer the polite incredulity I face when I say 'No, we aren't lonely, we like the island.'" We Keep A Light transports readers back to a simpler era when lighthouses were very much a part of the Maritime way of life. As fresh today as when it first appeared, this classic preserves the past in both remembrance and written word. Kobo: $9.57 CA; $14.07 AUD; $9.59 US; £7.43 Uk Kindle: $7.36 US Last edited by Victoria; 06-03-2020 at 04:27 PM. |
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I second Twenty Thousand Leagues and The Lightening Thief.
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I second The Light Between Oceans by M. L. Steadman.
AND I second We Keep a Light by Evelyn M. Richardson. Good to see you return, Victoria. |
06-04-2020, 11:04 AM | #29 |
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Victoria, where did you find a Kindle version of We Keep a Light? I checked Amazon(paperback only, $20) and I also checked Overdrive (our library system doesn’t carry it). I’d love to read this one.
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I found kindle versions on both the US & Canada Amazon sites. I’m not sure how to add links, but the web address at the US site is https://www.amazon.com/We-Keep-Light...al-text&sr=1-1 I hope this works for you. Good luck! |
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