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Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood | 5 | 55.56% | |
Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay | 4 | 44.44% | |
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10-11-2018, 07:32 AM | #1 |
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Runoff vote for November 2018 • Lies and Misdirections: Unreliable Narrators
This is a runoff vote to select the book we'll read and discuss in November 2018! We love new participants. We're happy for you to vote, but we'd like to request that you not vote unless you plan to join the discussion whatever the selection, in the interest of a vibrant conversation. Vote for one. Questions? FAQs | Guidelines Or just ask! Choices: Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood Amazon U.S., $11.99 | Amazon CA $4.99 | Amazon UK, £4.99 | Amazon AU $11.99 | Kobo U.S. $11.99 | Kobo CA $4.99 | Kobo UK, £4.99 | Kobo AU $11.99 | OverDrive | Audible Spoiler:
480 pp.
Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay Amazon US $5.99 | Amazon UK £4.99 | Amazon AU $10.99 | Amazon CA $14.99 | Audible | OverDrive Spoiler:
198 pp.
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10-11-2018, 07:57 AM | #2 |
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Tough call, but I have read the Lindsay and haven’t read the Atwood, so voted accordingly.
I’m currently on a train crossing Australia from east to west, so I’m glad I was in Wifi range for this runoff vote. |
10-11-2018, 10:18 AM | #3 |
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I haven't read either, even though Margaret Atwood is a Canadian, I haven't enjoyed the books of hers we've read here, or the one other I read. I'm going Aussie this time!
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Tough vote! I’m happy with both choices.
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10-12-2018, 07:53 AM | #5 |
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I'm pleased to note that no matter what, we'll have a woman author and a book neither UK nor US. That'll push us to 40% women authors overall and 25% not US/UK for fiction. However, our POC stat will continue to fall off; we were at 50% through September for our fiction selections.
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10-12-2018, 08:11 AM | #6 |
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And neither of them was nominated by a fellow national!
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10-12-2018, 09:20 AM | #7 |
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And as the voting's gone so far, 75% of fellow nationals have voted for the other!
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10-12-2018, 10:55 AM | #8 |
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I've referred to the famous film of Picnic at Hanging Rock which I'll rewatch (after a gap of 40 years) if that's our choice; it's a measure of how far I'm out of it in regard to current films/videos that I didn't realize that Alias Grace was a Netflix (in the US) miniseries only last year. Has anyone here seen it and without getting spoilery, how was it?
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10-12-2018, 12:00 PM | #9 |
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I am equally out of touch; I didn't know Alias Grace was a Netflix offering until I read it in the blurbs.
I came across the book only because of the Audiobookstand going-out-of-business sale, when I picked up anything that looked even remotely interesting. But I haven't listened to it yet. |
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Picnic at Hanging Rock was also made into a TV miniseries in 2018, starring Natalie Dormer from The Tudors and Game of Thrones.
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I would also add that whilst there is certainly nothing wrong with examining the stats I would hope that we are not choosing books based largely on the sex of the author or the colour of their skin. Or, for that matter, patriotism. |
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In fact, I'd have chosen Kesey myself. A marvelous book I'd love to revisit. But there's also something reassuring that it won't be an American or Britisher or man, this time around. |
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10-12-2018, 08:24 PM | #13 |
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@issybird. Sensible and practical. That is the correct use of these types of stats. To flag possible problems. Always picking white Brit/Yank males would upset me for the simple reason that it would mean we were missing out on discussing so many other great books. Quite frankly I would be much happier to know nothing about an author's sex, ethnicity etc. until after reading the book concerned, except in those very few cases where it may arguably have some relevance. This being impossible in the real world I do try and I hope succeed in ignoring such things.
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Bumping to say there's a day to go on the runoff vote.
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