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A Night to Remember by Walter Lord | 11 | 42.31% | |
Fanny and Stella: The Young Men Who Shocked Victorian England by Neil McKenna | 15 | 57.69% | |
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06-29-2013, 06:19 PM | #31 |
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Thank you! I'm looking forward to reading this in any case.
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06-29-2013, 07:40 PM | #32 | |
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Itunes store. I saw that the BBC World Service has lots of book podcasts in the World Book Club. And Kobo didn't give me a price reduction. I think it's because I live in Europe. |
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06-29-2013, 07:46 PM | #33 | |
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I'll have to check out the World Book Club. It sounds like a good resource for exploring insights about books. Thanks for that information. Last edited by fantasyfan; 06-30-2013 at 05:18 AM. |
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06-30-2013, 07:15 PM | #34 |
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And it's Fanny and Stella: The Young Men Who Shocked Victorian England by Neil McKenna for the win. Not my first choice, but it could prove entertaining. Going to download it now. See you all on the 20th!
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06-30-2013, 07:25 PM | #35 |
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And the first thing I discover after downloading the book is that this same author wrote a book called The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde. Now that does sound interesting. Too bad it wasn't nominated. He was both a character and a literary giant.
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06-30-2013, 07:52 PM | #36 |
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Sometimes once the nominations are in I can pick out the book that will probably win the month before the vote even begins. And then there are months like this. I would've never thought that Fanny and Stella would've won a vote or even come close, and I'm happily surprised. The timing is certainly apropos.
I will admit though that this is what I couldn't help but think of when I first saw the nomination: Spoiler:
I thought the selections in general this month were very good. I was most rooting for The True Believer or Stories from Rwanda, but quite a few of the nominations I'm very interested in and I'm happy with the winner. There were also three - A Night to Remember, Gulp and Sleepwalkers - that I wasn't particularly interested in at first, but upon seeing their high votes and reading the vote discussion, I read up a bit more on them and became interested in all three of those as well, heh. In the end I think I would've been interested in reading almost all of this month's nominations. |
06-30-2013, 09:35 PM | #37 |
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I agree, sun surfer - I didn't really expect that this one would win, but am looking forward to reading it. It's on order from the library and I should get it this week.
I did get myself The Sleepwalkers and plan on reading that before long - when I can slot it in between Book Clubs! |
07-01-2013, 01:35 AM | #38 |
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Here's a review from Kathryn Hughes in The Guardian with some pictures.
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Now, Oscar Wilde had a secret life? I didn't know that. So what did he do in his secret life? Oh.. Nevermind.. Maybe I don't want to know actually. |
07-01-2013, 01:42 AM | #39 | |
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07-01-2013, 07:40 AM | #40 |
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In his day all homosexuals outside of prison walls had a secret life. When his came to light he was tried for "gross indecency", convicted, and spent two years at hard labor.
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07-06-2013, 01:45 AM | #42 |
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While this vote was going on I was thinking about Walter Lord's book A Night to Remember and about how I couldn't imagine putting myself through the details around the Titanic disaster.
But it turned out, the novel I was reading used the Titanic as a central image and provided many of the details, even referencing Walter Lord's book several times. At points I felt the horror of the ship sinking. You can run, but you can't hide. |
07-06-2013, 05:01 AM | #43 |
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07-06-2013, 08:10 AM | #44 |
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Stalked by an ocean-going liner - pretty scary!
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