Suggestions:November 2008 Book of the Month

[Libra]

Yeah, but of course that never materialized. Lets see what everybody else wants to do.

Ofcourse Robert.:lol:

 

[Anamnesis]

My picks can be found on page 5 of this thread .

 

[Robert]

Ofcourse Robert.:lol:

 

[silverseason]

What we have so far (if they'll all fit in a single post )

Libra
Uncle Tom's Cabin

SeoulMan
Edith Wharton, The Custom of the Country (I already read her The House of Mirth and The Age of Innocence)
Sandra Cisneros, The House on Mango Street
Nadine Gordimer, The Conservationist

Robert
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans).
The Auctioneer by Joan Samson.

silverseason
Charlotte Bronte, Villette
Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford
Rebecca West, The Fountain Overflows
Any Cather book is good. I particularly like The Song of the Lark

Peder
Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen)
Mrs. Dalloway by Wirginia Woolf
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The Lover by Marguerite Duras
Bonjour Tristesse by Francoise Sagan
My Antonia by Willa Cather
Any of the Brontés

pontalba
Pearl Buck - The Good Earth

impalpable
The Waves Virginia Woolf
Kitchen Banana Yoshimoto
The Hand Maid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

abecedarian
The Rice Mother-Rani Maneka
The Joys of Motherhood-Bhuchi Emecheta

Silvanous
The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination by Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar

Aquablue
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

gonewiththewind
Joyce Carol Oates' Wild Things

Sleepy
The Awakening by Kate Chopin

Joderu95
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman - Mary Wollstonecraft
A Handful Of Dust - Evelyn Waugh
The Feminine Mystique - Betty Friedan
The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
The Powers and Duties of Poor Law Guardians in Times of Exceptional Distress - Emmiline Pankhurst
Death Comes For The Archbishop - Willa Cather
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
Janet Doncaster - Millicent Fawcett
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
The Second Sex - Simone de Beauvoir
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J.K. Rowling
Funhome: A Family Tragicomic - Allison Bechdel
An American Childhood - Annie Dillard
Modern American Memoirs - "
The Living - "

This quotes from Robert's useful list a couple of weeks ago. How about choices, like first, second, third? Here are mine:

1. Villette
2. The Good Earth
3. We Have Always Lived at the Castle

 

[Libra]

We had said that we were going to talk about Uncle Tom's Cabin ourselves, maybe it will get picked and we can all discuss it.

Lets see what everybody else wants to do.

Ofcourse Robert.:lol:

I meant that ofcourse we are going to wait and see what everybody else wants. Did the laugh throw you off?

Are you still confused?

 

[Robert]

I meant that ofcourse we are going to wait and see what everybody else wants. Did the laugh throw you off?

Yes, the laugh threw me off.

 

[Libra]

Yes, the laugh threw me off.

Ok, sorry,but it seemed that I was "suggesting" we all pick Uncle Tom's Cabin and I laughed.

 

[Silvanous]

Here are my choices/picks for November:

1) Madwoman in the Attic
2) Uncle Tom's Cabin
3) Frankenstein

 

[Libra]

Uncle Tom's Cabin is first runner up with 4 picks up to now.

Then comes:
Madwoman in the Attic 3

Frankenstein 3

If I have made any error sorry.

 

[oskylad]

The Mill on the Floss

 

[Libra]

Uncle Tom's Cabin is first runner up with 4 picks up to now.

Then comes:
Madwoman in the Attic 3

Frankenstein 3

If I have made any error sorry.

Mill on the Floss 3

 

[Robert]

You don't have this figured out yet, Libra?

 

[Libra]

You don't have this figured out yet, Libra?

I am waiting for all the voting to finish.

 

[Robert]

Time is growing short and this is what we have so far . . .

In seven pages, we have had fourteen members show interest in fifty titles. Of those fifty titles, those with the most interest are:

# Showing Interest Title
6 Uncle Tom's cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
6 Frankenstein by Mary Shelly
4 The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
4 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen


There are six titles with three members showing interest.

 

[Libra]

So, it's between these two:

6 Uncle Tom's cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
6 Frankenstein by Mary Shelly


Let's pick from these two now.

My choice:

Uncle Tom's Cabin

(good work ,I got lost a bit)

 

[Peder]

Abstain.

 

[Libra]

Abstain.

Why?, you don't like the choices?

 

[Peder]

Why?, you don't like the choices?

Partly that; partly that thing called Real Life; partly doing listology.
And partly other reading.
Can't win'em all.

 

[silverseason]

I could go with either one. If it makes a difference, Frankenstein is short and Uncle Tom is long.

 

[Libra]

Partly that; partly that thing called Real Life; partly doing listology.
And partly other reading.

OK , Peder.