January 2014 - Nominations

[Sarah]

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To begin, I suggest we read from the following categories:

Comedy - Ideal for dark wintry days
Crime - Ditto!
Love - For a warm glow to keep us warm

Please offer suggestions for books from these categories by 15th December now changed to Friday, 29th November; we will then decide (possibly by vote) which ones to read.

[ch]

For January 2014, I nominate:

Comedy - Martin Amis: Money (1984)
Crime - Umberto Ecoo: The Name of the Rose(1980)
Love - Willa Cather: A Lost Lady (1923)

[Sarah]

Hi ch,

Thank you for the first nominations. Two of the authors, Eco and Cather, are high on my list of favourite authors, so thank you for those! They all sound good.

Sarah

[Chelsea]

I could nominate but I am opened to what people decide to start the group with. :) In the future, I will nominate some books. Thanks!

[Anne Sofie]

Comedy - Don't know

Crime - Arthur Conan Doyle: A Study in Scarlet

Love - F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

[Dragana]

Comedy: The diary of a Nobody
Crime: A study in scarlet
Love: the garden of the Finzi-Contenis

[ch]

All good nominations! I'm looking forward to our reading :)

[Tom]

Comedy: Cold Comfort Farm
(because I meant to read it years ago. It should be a pleasant light holiday read)

Crime: Fingersmith
(because I have loved everything I've read by Sarah Waters)

Love: The Well of Loneliness
(because it sounds interesting, and it's sitting on my shelf waiting to be read)

[Sarah]

Thank you Tom. The first book I read by Sarah Walters was 'Night Watch', so interesting to read about war-time experiences from a different point of view, i.e. women working in the midst of the bombing raids.

[ch]

Thank you all for the nominations!

Here are the polls for the January's reading, so do vote for your selections!

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