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03-02-2019, 09:57 AM | #16 | ||
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My searches have been long and wide, and I have finally come up with something a little bit different that sounds like it could be interesting (and I think it fits the theme remarkably well)...
I nominate The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston. Quote:
There are multiple editions, so shop around. Here are some example links/prices: Amazon US - USD$9.49 | Amazon UK - £6.64 | Amazon CA - CDN$12.79 | Amazon AU - AUD$12.99 | Kobo US - USD$10.59 | Kobo UK - £7.19 | Kobo CA - CAD$12.79 | Kobo AU AUD$12.99 | Kobo NZ NZD$13.99 Also see Goodreads and Wikipedia. Wikipedia says: Quote:
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03-02-2019, 10:36 AM | #18 | |
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I'm nominating Compulsion (1956) by Meyer Levin, a novel based on the Leopold-Loeb "crime of the century" in the 1920s; the two young "thrill killers" were defended by the legendary Clarence Darrow.
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03-02-2019, 12:42 PM | #19 | |
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A second nomination, because I couldn't decide on which direction to go--this one is related to fairy tales: The Wild Girl (2013), by Kate Forsyth.
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03-02-2019, 05:01 PM | #20 | |
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It’s been a challenge to settle on a nomination. It feels like a lot responsibility to find something everyone might enjoy, so I’ve read a gazillion reviews. And it’s frustrating when something isn’t in ebook form. One retelling I enjoyed was ‘Last Orders’ by Graham Swift - alas, no ebook.
Since I’ve been debating with myself about between two retellings, I’m just going to nominate both. The first is a literal retelling: All The President’s Men - by Pulitzer Prize winning reporters, Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward. I’ve never read it, but have always intended to. It’s rated 4.19 on Goodreads, so I hope it isn’t just of interest to those who are familiar with American politics. Quote:
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03-02-2019, 05:43 PM | #21 | |
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My second nomination is a controversial retelling: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, published in 1926. It’s actually the third Poirot mystery, but it’s considered the book that launched Agatha Christie’s career. It’s a lighter read. A warning that I haven’t read it in several decades, so I hope it doesn’t breach modern sensibilities.
Christie’s method of telling was considered controversial, but saying any more would be a spoiler. In 2013, the British Crime Writers' Association voted it the best crime novel ever, and it’s usually placed near the top in similar polls. However, in fairness, other reviewers have considered the praise quite overblown. Quote:
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03-02-2019, 05:52 PM | #22 |
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Darn - that was my favourite Arthur too. Odd, I was pretty sure it had been released on Amazon a few years ago. Maybe it was withdrawn.
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03-03-2019, 07:20 AM | #23 |
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I'm going to blow my remaining nominations in one fell swoop with nods to Compulsion and The Woman Warrior. The first I'd like to read in any case and the second I read so long ago that I have little memory of it; it would also help our stats with an author of color. I'll note that while we're not tracking it, Cather was gay.
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For my final nomination, I wll third The Woman Warrior. It sounds facinating, and quite different from anything I’ve read.
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03-03-2019, 11:48 AM | #25 |
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I second All the President's Men. I bought and read this book cover to cover the day it came out. I was living in DC then and had followed WaPo's Watergate coverage day by day, but seeing it all pulled together in the book was fascinating.
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I'll forgo nominating anything this month, and use my other two tickets to third Death Comes for the Archbishop, and second The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. Both sound interesting, and I don't really have anything that I've come up with that I really want to nominate.
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So far, every single book with at least two nominations is either available at my library now, or with a 3 or 4 week wait (or is available to download here in the MR PCML.) This has to be a first.
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03-04-2019, 01:23 AM | #28 |
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I'm not having a problem either. I've got suspended holds on a few books, so I don't get it/them too soon. I'll cancel the ones I don't want.
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03-04-2019, 06:56 AM | #29 |
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April is Easter Season and the last couple I've read something fitting for the occasion. Last year it was AD 30 and AD 33 by Ted Dekker and the year before Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz. So I'll nominate another classic retelling of Christ, The Robe by Lloyd C Douglas.
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03-04-2019, 01:49 PM | #30 | |
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I've run out of tickets, but I thought I'd toss a book out there for consideration of those who might be interested. We've already got the Josephine Tey historical reconstruction, The Daughter of Time, but there's a more modern hospital bed mystery that I've quite enjoyed, The Wench is Dead, an excellent Inspector Morse novel written by Colin Dexter.
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