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With Heart • December 2018
Help select what we'll read next!
The topic is With Heart There are so many associations with the word 'heart' from the literal heart to the emotional to the shape, from heartbeats and life to love and romance, as well as many adjectives such as heartwarming, heartbreaking, heartless, halfhearted, lionhearted, etc., and idioms such as heart to heart, heart of gold, change of heart, wear your heart on your sleeve, etc. This topic includes all of those and is open to interpretation so it will be interesting to see what we come up with. 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 complete. Voting is complete! Final results-
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12-01-2018, 07:34 PM | #2 |
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I'll put up a purely selfish nomination. This book is often regarded as one of the best modern novels. However, it does not seem to be my type of reading, so while it has been on my reading list due to its heritage, it has never made it to the top. If I am forced to read it all to the good .
The Death of the Heart - Elizabeth Bowen Wikipedia Goodreads |
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After never nominating books previous to this thread, I'll go crazy and nominate another. This one came to mind today when I answered a question about this book in another part of these forums.
The Travelling Cat Chronicles - Hiro Arikawa It is a short novel, approx. 160 ADE pages, and has no direct connection to hearts, but The Guardian review's: The structure of The Travelling Cat Chronicles is deceptively simple. With alternating sections of third-person and Nana-the-cat narration, it consists of three journeys to friends, followed by a pilgrimage across a beautifully evoked landscape. There is then a heart-breaking last journey that left me in bits. perhaps makes the connection. I don't think animal lovers, especially cat ones, would find it too soppy - it is very Japanese. Again, this is a selfish nomination because we have kept cats all of our lives . |
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Interesting nominations, AnotherCat!
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12-04-2018, 11:36 AM | #5 |
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I agree. I’m still mulling over mine.
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I’ll post my nominations tonight before I go to sleep. I have to narrow down my ideas and check international availability.
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You have a little longer than usual because I started the thread a little later than usual, and I’ll wait until at least then to start voting but it will probably even be some hours later than that before I’m able to.
I’ve narrowed my choices down to around six and am trying to decide which to nominate and how many. |
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I’m working on my list right now! I have wine and Christmas lights for motivation and inspiration.
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Sounds nice and cosy!
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My first nomination is And The Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini.
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My second nomination is stories told from the heart to impart life’s wisdom and is supposed to be a heart-warming collection. I nominate Letter to My Daughter by Maya Angelou.
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My last nomination is the 1988 Man Booker Prize winner, Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey.
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Here are my three nominations:
-The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne This is a recent novel (2017) about a boy in Ireland born to a rural teen girl out of wedlock and adopted by an eccentric Dublin couple, who grows up and spends decades coming to know himself and his country, taking place from the 1940's to now. It has an astounding 4.47 rating on Goodreads out of over 30,000 reviews, which is an extremely high rating especially for a novel with a lot of reviews. In fact, I think this is the highest rated book I've ever seen of those I've been interested in. Goodreads, 582 pages, Ireland Quote:
-Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon This is a novel about 'the dusty, dark, and beautiful world of small-time horse racing' at a 'run-down West Virginia track', that also has to do with love and romance. It won the National Book Award for Fiction and was a nominee for both the Orange Prize for Fiction longlist and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Goodreads, 2010, 304 pages, United States Quote:
-Endless Love by Scott Spencer This book has a(n in)famous film adaptation, which I remember watching as a pre-teen child and not having a clue what the fuss and passion were all about. It is a National Book Award Finalist and 'remains perhaps the most powerful novel ever written about young love'. The book concerns an intense romance and obsession between David and Jade that becomes forbidden and then dangerous. The New York Times called it 'one of the best books of the year'. One of the top Goodreads reviews advises, 'Don't knock it 'til you've read it--the movie doesn't hold a candle to the book. Scott Spencer blew me away.' Another top Goodreads review states, 'Absolutely a literary masterpiece, written with precision and pure talent by an author who defies description, a writer who can create character, thought, situation, depth, and who has a true sense of time and place. And above all, he can create passion.' Goodreads, 425 pages, 1979, United States Quote:
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Nominations are closed and voting is now open!
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