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View Poll Results: The MobileRead Literary Book Club December 2011 Vote | |||
The short stories of Saki | 7 | 41.18% | |
The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark | 4 | 23.53% | |
The Daughter Of Time by Josephine Tey | 5 | 29.41% | |
Twenty-Six And One And Other Stories by Maxim Gorky | 1 | 5.88% | |
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11-27-2011, 12:11 PM | #1 |
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The MobileRead Literary Book Club December 2011 Vote
Help us choose the December 2011 selection to read for the MobileRead Literary Book Club! The poll will be open for three days.
We will be moving the timeline over half a month this month, so we will have longer than normal to read this month's selection. We will start the discussion thread for the selected work on JANUARY 1ST and a thread for January's nominations will be created five days later on JANUARY 6TH. I will start the threads, but the discussion thread may have a "discussion leader" if one volunteers. Everyone can post whatever thoughts they wish on the month's selection, but the discussion leader's goal will be to continue the dialogue in a thought-provoking direction with discussion questions and the like. In the event of a tie, there will be a one-day run-off poll. In the event that the run-off poll also ends in a tie, the tie will be resolved in favour of the selection that received all of its initial nominations first. The poll this month is hidden until close, but everyone is still free to discuss their own votes or anything else relative, if they so wish. Select from the following works: The short stories of Saki Spoiler:
The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark Spoiler:
The Daughter Of Time by Josephine Tey Spoiler:
Twenty-Six And One And Other Stories by Maxim Gorky Spoiler:
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11-27-2011, 12:25 PM | #2 |
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Something to drink with sashimi, please!
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11-27-2011, 12:29 PM | #3 |
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OK, more seriously: I've read the Spark and Tey nominations, more than once, even, and Saki sounds like much more fun than Gorky.
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11-27-2011, 12:29 PM | #4 |
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Too bad someone botched a book by Josephine Tey by nominating a book in a series that's not the first one. It would have been the clear choice.
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11-27-2011, 12:35 PM | #5 |
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The Daughter of Time is a stand-alone effort. Even though the detective appears in other Tey novels, there's no way this book can be considered to be part of a series. I don't think there's anything clear about the choice, however. My own opinion? I was charmed by it the first time I read it, when I was young and gullible; much less so when I reread it recently to help while away sleepless nights. But that's strictly my own humble opinion, of course, which I would never claim to be universal.
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11-27-2011, 12:48 PM | #6 |
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I voted for the prime book that I nominated.
All of the choices this month look great to me, though. I can't wait to see which wins. |
11-27-2011, 01:30 PM | #7 |
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The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark & Complete Short Stories of Saki both sounded interesting to me. Unfortunately, neither is available as a usable e-book.
I found a copy of the Saki stories, but both people who reviewed the Kindle edition complained about bad formatting. |
11-27-2011, 02:05 PM | #8 |
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I stuck with my original nomination of Saki using Beasts and Super Beasts as the central text--and the e-Book section has a free copy. All of the nominations sound quite interesting, though.
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11-27-2011, 02:24 PM | #9 |
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While I definitely plan on reading some Saki, specifically Beasts, Super-Beasts, and will read it this month if it happens to be selected, I am concerned about how well Saki short stories in general will work for a discussion. I recently persuaded the two book clubs at my local library to read a collection of nine short stories and for both discussions did not go well. Granted the people who participate in the MobileRead Literary Book Club are more literary and varied in their reading habits then my locals, but I wonder how it will go even here when people may not even have all read the same stories.
Twenty-Six And One And Other Stories I have already read (and more than once) so I would prefer something that I have never read. That leaves me with two alternatives, and of those two The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie is the book I think that I would enjoy more. Whatever wins though I will read and offer my input to the discussion. |
11-27-2011, 02:27 PM | #10 |
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Question:
My being unfamiliar with Sony and its formats, do either of you know whether or not Beasts, Super-Beasts will convert correctly for the Kindle?
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11-27-2011, 02:37 PM | #11 | |
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Now, if you download and unzip the LRF file and enter it in Calibre, it will easily and quickly convert to Mobi and will have a perfectly accessible table of contents. I've tried it and it works perfectly on my Kindle 3. Of course, Saki might not win, but this is a useful edition of one of his best collections for anyone who would like to sample his writing in a decent format for free. BTW Nyssa, You may well know how to do this already but your post was a useful excuse to tell others about this edition. Please don't take offense. Last edited by fantasyfan; 11-27-2011 at 02:40 PM. |
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11-27-2011, 05:02 PM | #13 |
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I'm going Saki. It's a available and seems a bit more interesting than Gorky this time around. Unfortunately, I can't seem to get The Prime of Miss Jean Brody and The Daughter of Time is going to cost me $10 to read which I'm not sure I can justify as a book club read (but we'll see).
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11-27-2011, 05:51 PM | #14 |
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I went with the The Daughter of Time. It sounds like an interesting read for me and it was available at B&N
For this time of year, I need something that it is not too thick and will make for easier reading as my time is very limited at this time of year. |
11-27-2011, 06:14 PM | #15 |
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Unzip the LRF and you can use Calibre to convert to Mobi.
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