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Right Back Where We Started From • May 2021
Happy May Day!
Help select what we'll read and discuss for our last go round. The topic is Right Back Where We Started From Do you remember the day When this group first came our way It had a lovely place in the sun But a club like ours Can never fade away You know it's only just begun This final month of the Lit Club is an open topic for any nominations of literary proportions. Detailed nominating and voting guidelines can be found here. Basically, nominations are open for about four days and each person may nominate up to three literary selections which will go automatically to the vote. Voting by post then opens for four days, and a voter may give each nomination either one or two votes but only has a limited number of votes to use which is equal to the number of nominations minus one. Any questions, feel free to ask. We hope that you will read the selection with us and join in the discussion. * Nominations are now complete. Initial voting is complete. Run-off voting is complete. Final results-
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05-05-2021, 11:19 PM | #2 |
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I’m working on my nominations tonight. I will post something a little later.
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My first nomination is Small Island by Andrea Levy which won several awards in 2004 and 2005 and is also a BBC miniseries. It has been on my TBR for a while.
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My second nomination is Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell, another award-winning author that I’ve been wanting to read.
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My third nominations is Atonement by Ian McEwan, another author that I’ve been wanting to read.
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Just a little update- my nominations are decided but I won’t have a chance to get the info, post them, update the first post and start the final monthly vote until a little later so per the usual, nominations will stay open until then if anyone has any last minute books to throw in the ring.
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All right, I'll be getting everything updated and started slowly over the next little while. B_G, your (final!) nominations are great! It's a coincidence since the topic was open to anything, but I also had Hamnet on my longlist of considerations for this month. I loved the film of Atonement and have been wanting to read it for a long time. And Small Island looks intriguing; what is another interesting coincidence is that I've had my nominations picked out for some days now and one of my books is also concerning the Caribbean.
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My last first nomination is Theatrical Novel (aka A Dead Man's Memoir aka Black Snow) by Mikhail Bulgakov. This nomination harkens back to our very first month, when Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita won. I also like that this novel is about a ten-year period which complements our club's length nicely.
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My penultimate nomination is The Last September by Elizabeth Bowen. I thought it sounded like a good book for this month and I'd love to read it.
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And my concluding nomination is Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid. This one looks compelling and there's a lot of good reasons I chose it.
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Nominations are complete and voting is now open!
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Great nominations, sun surfer!
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Here are my votes. Looking forward to any of these!
One vote each to the following: Small Island by Andrea Levy Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell Atonement by Ian McEwan The Last September by Elizabeth Bowen Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid |
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I will give one vote each to
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I’m gone right now and on a mobile so if there is a tie, I won’t be able to start the run off for a day or two. Should be an interesting finale!
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