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New Beginnings and Uncharted Waters • July 2018
Welcome to a fresh start for the MR Literary Club, and help us select what we'll read next!
The topic is New Beginnings and Uncharted Waters Selections that have something to do with any of new beginnings, big changes, second chances, exploration, venturing into uncharted territory, or however else you may interpret it Detailed nominating and voting guidelines can be found here. Basically, nominations are open for four days and each person may nominate up to three literary selections which will go automatically to the vote. Voting then opens for four days and each person votes by post, receives a number of votes equal to the number of nominations minus one and may give each nomination up to two votes. Any questions, feel free to ask. We hope that you will read the selection with us and join in the discussion. * Nominations are complete. Initial voting is complete. Run-off voting is complete. Final results-
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Interesting topic! It will be fun to research.
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I plan to post my nominations tomorrow since I'll have some free time to explore options. Hope everyone in the US has a safe and happy holiday!
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My first nomination is Britt-Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman. I loved A Man Called Ove and would like to read another book by Backman.
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My second nomination is The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce, which was a Man Booker Prize Longlist nominee in 2012.
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I nominate-
The Sea, the Sea by Irish Murdoch, 1978, Ireland & the U.K., Goodreads I think this one fits the topic of new beginnings as the main character retires from London to an isolated house by the sea, and the title refers to (uncharted) waters. It won the Man Booker in 1978. Quote:
The People in the Trees by Hanya Yanagihara, 2013, the U.S., Goodreads I think this fits the topic by of uncharted waters by being about an expedition to a remote Micronesian island looking for a rumoured lost tribe. Quote:
Green Mansions by William Henry Hudson, 1904, Argentina & the U.K., Goodreads I had mentioned the club hopefully veering into a slightly more recent and less obscure direction, and here I'm nominating an old, obscure book. In my defence though it was a bestseller in the early part of the 20th century, and it fits the topics of new beginnings and uncharted waters, being about the protagonist taking refuge from a failed revolutionary attempt in the primeval forests(/jungles?) of southwestern Venezuela. Quote:
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Nominations are closed and voting is now open!
Voting will close exactly four days from this post. Each person has FOUR votes to use. |
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I'll start by giving one vote each to-
Britt-Marie Was Here The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry The People in the Trees |
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I give one vote each to:
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry The People in the Trees Green Mansions |
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I will start with one vote each to:
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry The Sea, The Sea I bought The Sea, The Sea when it was on-sale for $2 so that was an easy vote. It will be harder to decide my last 2 votes! EDIT: I discovered The Unlikely Pilgrimage is on-sale for $1.99. Expires today! Last edited by Bookworm_Girl; 07-07-2018 at 05:32 PM. |
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I posted some books related to this month's topic in the Literary Supplement thread. Here's a link.
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FYI, the first post nominations list might look a little different from day to day as I'm trying some things out with it.
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I'm ok with obscure. I'm going to give 1 vote to Green Mansions.
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This is my first time voting in this club (thank you for the invitation!), and I want to make sure I don't fluff it. If I understand it, I get four total votes? They must all be used on different works?
Assuming I've not misunderstood, I would like to vote for: The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch The People in the Trees by Hanya Yanagihara Green Mansions by William Henry Hudson |
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It also just so happens that you barely missed the normal voting cut-off by about an hour! The actual cut-off time isn't posted since forum time can appear differently for every person depending on their time zone settings. For nominations the cut-off is pretty lax, being around four complete days but sometimes some hours longer until I begin the vote. However, voting generally has a stricter time frame of exactly four days from when I post commencing the vote regardless of if the final results aren't posted until a bit later. That being said, guidelines are sometimes made to be broken. The stricter voting period was made for two reasons: so that everyone would know exactly when the vote was ending - similar to a poll - for the purpose of last-minute strategic votes, and to eliminate any possible grumblings of the club runner not closing the vote right away for a nefarious reason such as hoping for more votes for specific nominations. Also in the past there have been times where I shied away from making justified exceptions to our normal guidelines to similarly prevent any possible grumblings of making snap decisions not first extensively debated and put to a vote, but with this being the first month of our new club refresh, what better way to be out with the old? Fortunately I don't think there are any grumbling-prone members like that here now so it's easier to make exceptions when needed like this, and on top of that this has made me think that I'm going to give up worrying about such as that altogether and operate on the basis of others assuming the best of my intentions as I similarly will of them, which sounds like a great way to move forward for all our members past, present and future. I didn't mean to catch you in the crosshairs of musing but suffice to say your votes will count. |
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