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What do you think?
How many have you read?
http://www.modernlibrary.com/top-100/...
You can tell I read with the masses. 2 from the board list and 14 from the readers' list
On the reader's list, 34 that I can remember and on the board list, 14 that I can remember. Sometimes I have forgotten I ever read a book, even a big name one (eg The Good Earth, not on these lists; I started reading that a few years ago, and an number of chapters in, realized I read it in high school; in the end I'd only remembered a few scenes, so much for timeless lit).
37 on the board's list and 44 on the reader's. I was really surprised to see Charles de Lint multiple times. I haven't even thought about reading something by him. Am I missing something?I'm with you, Karen. It can get dicey at times remembering what I've read and what I haven't.
8 on the board list and 14.5 on the reader list. I counted a book I gave up on half way through. :)
29 on the board list and 34 on the readers list.
Lesley wrote: "The Stella Prize : Australian Women's Writing FYIhttp://thestellaprize.com.au/2016/03/..."
A couple catch my interest - added Hope Farm and The Natural Way of Things to the TBR. Have you read any of them, Lesley?
Denizen wrote: "Lesley wrote: "The Stella Prize : Australian Women's Writing FYIhttp://thestellaprize.com.au/2016/03/..."
A couple catch my interest - added Hope Fa..."</i>
[book:The Natural Way of Things is on order.. Will have to research the others..Charlotte Wood 's other one on order is The Submerged Cathedral...
Denizen wrote: "Lesley wrote: "The Stella Prize : Australian Women's Writing FYIhttp://thestellaprize.com.au/2016/03/..."
A couple catch my interest - added Hope Fa..."</i>
Yes, will add [book:Hope Farm as the area I lived in for 20 odd (hehehe) years, is 'known' as a hippie (was, really..) area..
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http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles...
Only about 3 of them were published by the time I was 30. Some, like The Perks of Being a Wallflower, don't belong on any "must read" list IMO. Anyhow, I've read 16 of them and have another 6 on the TBR so guess my tastes don't differ that much even with the extra decades.
Booknblues wrote: "List of promising newly released books:http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by......"
I was just looking at The North Water on Amazon. It sounds great. I wouldn't have looked twice at Exit, Pursued by a Bear if it wasn't their top pick. Ratings on GR are 4.18. The first review contains a spoiler IMO and isn't marked. It's also YA, but I think it's one that's going to get a lot of buzz so am adding it to the TBR.
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http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by......"
I like the title Exit, Pursued by a Bear.
Margaret the First sounds like it might be good.
Booknblues wrote: Margaret the First sounds like it might be good.She sounds like a fascinating person. The last paragraph of the review was a turnoff for me. "Margaret the First is very much a contemporary novel set in the past, rather than “historical fiction.” Written with lucid precision and sharp cuts through narrative time, it is a gorgeous and wholly new narrative approach to imagining the life of a historical woman."
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I think I would still be inclined to give it a try, however I don't always love historical fiction based around a real character....sometimes, but not always.
I didn't really enjoy Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution, that everyone else seemed to love.
That's what I like to hear. Madame Tussaud is one I took off my TBR. I like my historical fiction to be true to the time. I don't like language and behaviors that don't fit historically. It sounds like Margaret the First might be like that. If you read Margaret the First and love it, however, I'm more than willing to reconsider.
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http://www.irishcentral.com/roots/twe...
Also in doing a search
https://www.google.com/search?q=Irish...
Booknblues wrote: "A list of books set at pivotal points in historyhttp://www.readitforward.com/bookshel..."
It's an interesting idea but it will take time to browse my books to see which I would recommend.
Lesley wrote: "OZ list FYIhttp://abiawards.com.au/general/annou..."
General Fiction Book of the Year
•In the Quiet (Eliza Henry Jones, HarperCollins Publishers)
•The Perfumer’s Secret (Fiona McIntosh, Penguin Random House)
•The Heat (Garry Disher, Text Publishing)
•Spirits of the Ghan (Judy Nunn, Penguin Random House)
•The Lake House (Kate Morton, Allen & Unwin)
•Close Your Eyes (Michael Robotham, Hachette)
•Hope Farm (Peggy Frew, Scribe)
•The Patterson Girls (Rachael Johns, Harlequin)
Lesley wrote: "Lesley wrote: "OZ list FYIhttp://abiawards.com.au/general/annou..."
Hope Farm was already on my TBR - strong reviews on GR. Spirits of the Ghan also is getting strong reviews and one I am interested in.
Thanks for keeping us up-to-date on the Australian authors, Lesley.
Lesley, what's the backstory behind referring to Australia as OZ? I never saw that before you came into the group.
Denizen wrote: "Lesley wrote: "Lesley wrote: "OZ list FYIhttp://abiawards.com.au/general/annou..."
Hope Farm was already on my TBR - strong reviews on GR. [book:Spirits..."
Too lazy, (us) to say the whole word...hehehe Aus..(tralia..) Think it was started in England or re-inforced ; something to do with a newspaper printed by Expats, who were (?) tried for obscenity..; and then Peter Allen, the Boy From Oz..
Google agrees..
Lesley wrote: "Denizen wrote: "Lesley wrote: "Lesley wrote: "OZ list FYIhttp://abiawards.com.au/general/annou..."
Hope Farm was already on my TBR - strong reviews on G..."
Lesley wrote: "Denizen wrote: "Lesley wrote: "Lesley wrote: "OZ list FYI
http://abiawards.com.au/general/annou..."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oz_(mag... surprised how old it is.."The original Australian OZ took the form of a satirical magazine published between 1963 and 1969, while the British incarnation was a "psychedelic hippy" magazine which appeared from 1967 to 1973. Strongly identified as part of the underground press, it was the subject of two celebrated obscenity trials, one in Australia in 1964 and the other in the United Kingdom in 1971. "
Denizen wrote: "Lesley wrote: "Lesley wrote: "OZ list FYIhttp://abiawards.com.au/general/annou..."
Hope Farm was already on my TBR - strong reviews on GR. Spirits..."</i>
[author:Eliza Henry-JonesIn the Quiet Ive read and gave it 3 stars.. Should be 3 1/2...
Oz Miles Franklin Long list :http://www.milesfranklin.com.au/2015/... Eligibility
The 2016 Miles Franklin Award Guidelines provide further information on eligibility and criteria.
The 2015 Longlist
Elizabeth Harrower : In Certain Circles
Sonya Hartnett : Golden Boys
Sofie Laguna : The Eye of the Sheep
Joan London : The Golden Age
Suzanne McCourt : The Lost Child
Omar Musa : Here Come the Dogs
Favel Parrett : When the Night Comes
Christine Piper : After Darkness
Craig Sherborne : Tree Palace
Inga Simpson : Nest
Lesley wrote: "Oz Miles Franklin Long list :http://www.milesfranklin.com.au/2015/... I have read a few, so will TBR the others..
Here is the 2016 Miles Franklin Long list announced today. The 2016 Miles Franklin longlist
Ghost River by Tony Birch
Coming Rain by Stephen Daisley
Hope Farm by Peggy Frew on my TBR
Leap by Myfanwy Jones
The World Without Us by Mireille Juchau
The Hands: an Australian Pastoral by Stephen Orr
Black Rock White City by A S Patric
Salt Creek by Lucy Treloar
The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood on my TBR
Being on GR makes it so easy to cut and paste to my library request system..
Which of these do you recommend, Lesley?
Lesley wrote: "Here is the 2016 Miles Franklin Long list announced today. The 2016 Miles Franklin longlist
Ghost River by Tony Birch
Coming Rain by Stephen Daisley
Two are already on my TBR as there seems to be some overlap with previous OZ lists. I remember your review of The World Without Us I'll be checking all of them out off and on throughout the day.
Hope Farm by Peggy Frew on my TBR
Leap by..."
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https://vpl.bibliocommons.com/list/sh..."
Thanks, Story. That is a really good list. I could make some discoveries there and plan to go over it more thoroughly.
Storyheart wrote: "Books set in Mediterranean countries:https://vpl.bibliocommons.com/list/sh..."
Several familiar authors but only 1 familiar title. It will take a little time to go over.
I really like how the reviews appear at the bottom of the book description page on GR. I can see the reviews of friends, the ratings of friends, and then who has it on their shelves. Shelfari only showed who had it on their shelf and it was difficult to figure who had read it and rated it if they didn't post a review and vs who had it on the TBR.
Denizen wrote: "Storyheart wrote: "Books set in Mediterranean countries:https://vpl.bibliocommons.com/list/sh..."
Several familiar authors b..."
Yes I find this a useful facility, too.
Storyheart wrote: "Which of these do you recommend, Lesley?"Not yet sure.. Will check them out more thoroughly, tomorrow.. Time to repair to my cool room to read some from my TBR list, that have now arrived.
Lesley wrote: "Storyheart wrote: "Which of these do you recommend, Lesley?"Not yet sure.. Will check them out more thoroughly, tomorrow.. Time to repair to my cool room to read some from my TBR list, that have ..."
I have only read Mireille Juchau The World Without Us : 5 BIG stars
I have ordered :Hope Farm...
ditto The Natural Way of Things
must order : The Hands as this appeals to me, even more, living in Remote Oz.. also
Let you know when I have read them, if they live up to their synopsis (? plural)..
Storyheart wrote: "Books set in Mediterranean countries:https://vpl.bibliocommons.com/list/sh..."
I finally found the time to go through the list. The book I was tempted to add, Swell, is only available in new paperback so decided to pass on it. I had Tahar Ben Jelloun's newest book The Happy Marriage on the TBR but switched to the book on this list A Palace in the Old Village since it was available as an e-book at the library. Author's already on the TBR that I stuck with the original book are Yasmina Khadra with The Sirens of Baghdad (and learned that Khadra was male not female as I assumed), and Elif Shafak's The Architect's Apprentice. I have Pamuk's latest on the TBR. I set a personal goal to read a book by 6 particular author's and Pamuk is one of them.
Story, your library carries an unbelievable number of books by these authors. I'm envious!
It's an amazing library. Whenever we talk about moving to another city, I always think "oh! but I can't leave my library!"Let us know how you get on with the books you added.
Lesley wrote: "Lesley wrote: "Storyheart wrote: "Which of these do you recommend, Lesley?"Not yet sure.. Will check them out more thoroughly, tomorrow.. Time to repair to my cool room to read some from my TBR l..."
I really liked The Hands but wonder if my enjoyment of underwritten OZ books relies on cultural knowledge. That said, I daresay many peoples who live in isolated places, could be very similar.
I also liked Hope Farm but my favourite would have to be Where the Trees Were.. Wonderfully paced and it has opened a whole new area of research.. The 'missing' trees were deliberately destroyed or removed, due to fears about Aboriginal Land Rights Claims as they were carved grave markers..
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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/27/boo......"
Thanks< I love these lists and hopefully I can peruse it more carefully without purchasing any.
Miles Franklin literary award 2016 Women and Melbourne writers dominate Miles Franklin 2016 shortlist
Hope Farm by Peggy Frew(Scribe Publications):
“A quietly powerful and haunting novel, full of the aching intensity of the outcast, rendered in pitch-perfect tone and heartbreakingly believable”
Leap by Myfanwy Jones (Allen & Unwin): “A beautiful story about the resolution of grief, not by moving on or forgetting, but by finally accommodating, absorbing and accepting its weight”
Black Rock White City by A.S. Patric (Transit Lounge): “A fresh and powerful exploration of the immigrant experience and Australian life that explores the damages of war, the constraints of choice, the possibility of redemptive love and social isolation amid suburbia”
Salt Creek by Lucy Treloar(Pan Macmillian): “This portrait of frontier life is a timetraveller’s delight as it unsettles assumptions about European ‘settlement’ and its devastating effects on Aboriginal culture, while graphically charting the unequal 19th-century power relations between men and women”
The Natural Way of Thingsby Charlotte Wood(Allen & Unwin): “A confronting story of misogyny that is both shockingly realist in its details and deeply allegorical in its shape”
Booknblues wrote: "Beach reads for this summer, some new some not so muchhttps://www.buzzfeed.com/lincolnthomp..."
This looks like one I may like The Guest Room Chris Bohjalian (as far as I got in the list)
Booknblues wrote: "Beach reads for this summer, some new some not so muchhttps://www.buzzfeed.com/lincolnthomp..."
This list didn't particularly speak to me but am in a hard-to-please mode right now. Two were already on my TBR, Homegoing and The Kitchen House. I'm more excited about Homegoing.
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