10-02-2019, 12:28 AM | #16 |
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So far, I'm not coming up with books that "fit". Or rather, I can come up with them, but I've either read it already and have no desire to re-read, or it's not available somewhere, or it's >600 pages. Sigh.
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10-02-2019, 12:40 AM | #17 | |
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I had it in my head the US price wasn't that far from usual, but it must just have been the other books I was looking at at the time. (Details like price get a bit hazy after you've been staring at pages and pages of books all night. Oh the stress and strain of book shopping. ). |
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10-02-2019, 01:32 AM | #18 |
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FWIW, one of my libraries it's a 6 month wait, gmw. But I checked the other and it's only 2 weeks there.
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10-02-2019, 07:47 AM | #19 |
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10-02-2019, 08:31 AM | #20 |
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I will second Heyer and I will make my own recommendation for Haruki Murakami's Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World. From the goodreads blurb:
'A narrative particle accelerator that zooms between Wild Turkey Whiskey and Bob Dylan, unicorn skulls and voracious librarians, John Coltrane and Lord Jim. Science fiction, detective story and post-modern manifesto all rolled into one rip-roaring novel, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World is the tour de force that expanded Haruki Murakami's international following. Tracking one man's descent into the Kafkaesque underworld of contemporary Tokyo, Murakami unites East and West, tragedy and farce, compassion and detachment, slang and philosophy.' I'm at work so I can't run prices right now, but the book was published in 1985 and I think would be available at many libraries. |
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10-02-2019, 11:14 AM | #21 |
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I was going to third the Heyer but it's already done, so I will just second Hard-Boiled Wonderland.
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10-03-2019, 07:57 AM | #25 |
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I am absolutely gobsmacked.
I've been toying with making a second nomination depending on how things go. I thought Fifth Business by the greatest of all Canadian authors, Robertson Davies, (Margaret who?) would fit. I read it decades ago and loved it and have planned to reread it eventually, as I have his other two trilogies in the past few years. And, it's cheap here; only $1.99. It's not available in Australia! Or the UK, which I always check for price comparison purposes. It continues to shock when great authors aren't universally published in Anglophone countries, but I do bump into it, as we all do with nominations here. Well, so much for that. |
10-03-2019, 08:06 AM | #26 |
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How very annoying of the publishers! I have checked, and can get it through one of my libraries. So if gmw could also, maybe it could still go up.
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10-03-2019, 08:11 AM | #27 | |
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I have a similar dilemma with the book I want to nominate, which isn't available in Canada as an ebook, as far as I can make out. I would like to crave my Canadian cousins' forgiveness and put it up anyway, in the hope that if you are interested in reading it, you can get it from a library.
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Kobo prices: $US11.99, $A12.99, £5.99. 295 pages. |
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10-03-2019, 09:51 AM | #28 |
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It seems as if Australia is more interested in books about Robertson Davies than we are in reading books written by him. My library options for ebooks are pretty limited, and those I searched could find no match.
I do still have two votes, but I have been waiting to see what else is nominated before casting them. |
10-03-2019, 09:56 AM | #29 |
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I'm trying to find something with a Rashomon vibe and not having much luck. I feel like I've read books that would work, but I can't pull the titles from my brain, and looking at various lists isn't helping.
I did come across one possibility (An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears), but it's quite long and lacks an unabridged audiobook, and that combination of factors is a turn-off for me, so I decided against it. |
10-03-2019, 11:11 AM | #30 |
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FWIW, I get most of my books from the U.S. Amazon store, and I'm pretty Victoria has access to a U.S. store as well. So don't let Canadian availability be a concern.
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