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Latin America | 6 | 50.00% | |
Canada & The U.S.A. | 1 | 8.33% | |
The South Pacific | 0 | 0% | |
Southeast Asia | 5 | 41.67% | |
Japan | 2 | 16.67% | |
The Korean Peninsula, Mongolia & China | 3 | 25.00% | |
South Asia | 3 | 25.00% | |
Central Asia, East Europe & Russia | 2 | 16.67% | |
Sub Saharan Africa | 3 | 25.00% | |
North Africa & The Middle East | 4 | 33.33% | |
Southeast Europe | 3 | 25.00% | |
Portugal, Belgium, The Netherlands, Spain & France | 4 | 33.33% | |
North & Central Europe | 1 | 8.33% | |
Ireland & The U.K. | 2 | 16.67% | |
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05-06-2012, 01:49 AM | #1 |
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Region Nominations May 2012 • The MR Literary Club
Help us select what the MR Literary Club will read for May 2012!
The nominations will run through May 11 or until five works have made the list. Final voting in a new poll will begin by May 11, where the month's selection will be decided. The category for this month is: Region Latin America (The Caribbean, South America, Central America and Mexico), as chosen in the poll This month is a two-part process: The first part begins with a ONE-DAY POLL to determine the region we will use. It is MULTIPLE CHOICE and you may choose as many options as you like when voting. This voting is separate from your nominations. There are no nominations during the poll, only voting. I will not vote in the poll, and if there is a tie, I will break it. As soon as the poll is over and the region is determined, then the second part (nominations) starts and you can begin nominating like normal. Nominations can be set in any region, but they should be written by an author from that region. Notes: -Regions are named in the poll and colour-coded on the map. Region names are generalities and not exact. -If a country or territory is too small to show regional colour on the map, it will be part of the region closest to it physically and culturally. If you are unsure, just ask. -I had help making the regions list that was much appreciated. Once the poll is over and nominations begin: In order for a work to be included in the poll it needs FOUR nominations - the original nomination plus THREE supporting. Each participant has FOUR nominations to use. You can nominate a new work for consideration or you can support (second, third or fourth) a work that has already been nominated by another person. To nominate a work just post a message with your nomination. If you are the first to nominate a work, it's always nice to provide an abstract to the work so others may consider their level of interest. What is literature for the purposes of this club? A superior work of lasting merit that enriches the mind. Often it is important, challenging, critically acclaimed. It may be from ancient times to today; it may be from anywhere in the world; it may be obscure or famous, short or long; it may be a story, a novel, a play, a poem, an essay or another written form. If you are unsure if a work would be considered literature, just ask! The floor is now open! * Nominations through post 26: Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges, Argentina - Fully nominated Spoiler:
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez, Colombia - Fully nominated Spoiler:
The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Brazil - Fully nominated Spoiler:
The Labyrinth of Solitude by Octavio Paz, Mexico - Fully nominated Spoiler:
The Secret History of Costaguana by Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Colombia - 1 Spoiler:
The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat, Haiti - 2 Spoiler:
The Palace of the Peacock by Wilson Harris, Guyana - 2 Spoiler:
In The Castle of My Skin by George Lamming, Barbados - 2 Spoiler:
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys, Dominica - 1 Spoiler:
The Alchemist by Paulho Coelho, Brazil - 1 Spoiler:
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05-06-2012, 04:01 AM | #2 |
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Sunsurfer, beautiful map! I chose regions with countries I know nothing or next to nothing about.
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Good map! I have voted for areas I would not normally choose from.
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05-06-2012, 08:13 AM | #4 |
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Lovely map, surfer! I too am looking to broaden my horizons, so to speak.
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05-06-2012, 09:15 AM | #5 |
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I am happy that he did not leave either Antarctica or Greenland out in the cold.
Nice to see people are so interested in broadening things beyond the usual North American/Western Europe axis. |
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05-06-2012, 11:34 AM | #7 |
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To those of you who mentioned it, thanks about the map.
ETA - Though our category list "year" doesn't end until next month, since we started a month before the category list in June of last year, this month marks the end of our first year as a club. Woohoo! Last edited by sun surfer; 05-06-2012 at 11:40 AM. |
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05-07-2012, 08:28 AM | #9 |
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Latin America! Nice selection.
Happy Birthday MR Literary Club, and thanks Sun Surfer for starting this and keeping it running. |
05-07-2012, 10:34 AM | #10 |
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Latin America it is! This region includes writers from The Caribbean, South America, Central America and Mexico.
And, it looks like I'll be the first to nominate. I have two: Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez I will edit in descriptions later but wanted to go ahead and get them out there. I've wanted to read Borges forever and haven't yet, and I read Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude which I thought was great and I've heard great things about Love in the Time of Cholera as well. Last edited by sun surfer; 05-07-2012 at 11:01 AM. |
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I'll second both Ficciones and LITTOC.
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05-07-2012, 11:58 AM | #12 |
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I'll third Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez - i would have nominated it myself if you hadn't beaten me to it, as I have wanted to read it for a long tme now.
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05-07-2012, 12:02 PM | #13 |
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I’d like to nominate The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas, by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, considered to be Brazil’s pre-eminent author. Harold Bloom has described him as "the supreme black literary artist to date."
This is the blurb from Goodreads: One of the greatest novels of Brazilian Literature, Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas is narrated by a dead man who recounts the amorous misadventures of his unheroic life and explains his half-hearted political ambitions. While it is considered the first novel of Brazilian realism, its quirks seem refreshingly modern and make it unforgettably unlike anything written before or after it. The novel is available at all the usual venues for under US$10, and it’s couponable at Kobo. I paid $4 for a copy with a current code. |
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05-07-2012, 01:07 PM | #15 |
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I am glad that Gabriel Garcia Marquez was nominated as well. If he had not been I would have done so, though more likely for One Hundred Years of Solitude.
I would like to nominate The Secret History of Costaguana by Juan Gabriel Vasquez . Spoiler:
This is available as an ebook, Inkmesh search, including from the FLP. |
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