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The Odd Woman
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In its fierce criticism of a society that encouraged the oppression of women and consequently the arrogance and cruelty of men, The Odd Women was astonishingly ahead of its time and vividly reminds us that feminism is not a new concern. It is also an unflinching examination of the dliemma of choosing between one's desires and one's principles.
I have not read this novel, but I have read another novel by Gissing. The "odd women" are spinsters, i.e. women without husbands.
Sorry I see the group has already read Ruth so I will change it to Esther Waters by George Moore (I believe we can nominate 2)
Rosemarie wrote: "Here is a description of The Odd Women. From the back cover: In its fierce criticism of a society that encouraged the oppression of women and consequently the arrogance and cruelty of men, The Od..."
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Sounds similar to Hardy's themes
Tracey wrote: "Sorry I see the group has already read Ruth so I will change it to Esther Waters by George Moore (I believe we can nominate 2)"I second Esther Waters. Would love to read it.
I’ll second The Odd Women. Sounds like a good companion read to one of my favorite classics, Lolly Willowes.
Abigail wrote: "I’ll second The Odd Women. Sounds like a good companion read to one of my favorite classics, Lolly Willowes."Woman
People could end up with the wrong book.
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People could end up with the wrong book."V
Post number 5 has link to book
Rose wrote: "I nominate Père Goriot. :)"I just finished this one and it's a terrific read! I highly recommend it.
After watching the War and Peace mini-series, I would love to read a Russian novel (although NOT War and Peace...good grief).Fathers and Sons was nominated last month (not by me), and did well, but didn't win.
So, I'm going to nominate it again.
Deborah wrote: "Rochelle wrote: "Abigail wrote: "I’ll second The Odd Women. Sounds like a good companion read to one of my favorite classics, Lolly Willowes."Woman
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Post number 5 has link to book ."
If the intention was, as I assume it was, to nominate the George Gissing book, then the link in Post 5 is to a bad edition of the book with the wrong title. It actually IS The Odd Women. Here's a link to a correct copy of it (Oxford World's Classics). I've read it -- it's a fine book about several odd women. I won't say more about why they're odd since that would be a spoiler, but
The Odd Women
There is a book with the title The Odd Woman, but it's by Gail Godwin who was born in 1937 and is way outside our time period.
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Weird because I chose Gissing when I created link
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Deborah wrote: "Weird because I chose Gissing when I created link ."Oops, I'm sorry, I fell in the hole, and I owe 2 of you an apology.
Books in the GR main catalog are submitted by members, so can be imperfect. I've found some weird stuff like the same edition under several names, and writers of the foreword listed as authors, which is very common. There's an Editors Group where you can submit errors in the catalog without having to join that group. I'll look for the URL.
Their search engine is also awful, surprising since Amazon owns them. Searching for "editors" in Groups gives me this:https://www.goodreads.com/group/searc...
Rosemarie: at a library, I'm surprised, since they still use the Dewey call numbers even though the card catalogs are gone. They're using more volunteers these days to cut back on paid staff.
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Oops, I'm sorry, I fell in the hole, and I owe 2 of you an apology.
Books in the GR main catalog are submitted by members, so..."
No apologies needed
Rochelle wrote: "Oops, I'm sorry, I fell in the hole, and I owe 2 of you an apology. "Don't know whether you consider me one of the two, but if so, no apology at all is needed.
The group that edits is called Librarians, not Editors. I joined the group and submitted the error. I think I'll stay this time because it's interesting to see the inner workings of the site.https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/...
I'll always remember this book, even if we don't read it. :-(Turns out GR has gotten its book list from Amazon, not the other way around. The tens of thousands of errors that the Librarians fix are from Amazon's catalog. Looks like, by buying GR, Amazon got some 15,000 workers who don't have to be paid.
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Turns out GR has gotten its book list from Amazon, not the other way around. The tens of thousands of errors that the Librarians fix ..."
Wow. That's pretty nasty.
Deborah wrote: "Rochelle wrote: " Turns out GR has gotten its book list from Amazon, not the other way around. The tens of thousands of errors that th...Wow. That's pretty nasty. "
About as nasty as the poverty wages they pay their own workers and the work load they expect from them. They undersell everyone for the same reason that Walmart does.
My error, it's 58,000 Librarians although in practice, not everyone who joins just to make a correction, like me, is a Librarian.
We're getting sidetracked. Back to nominations. I think we've already read every book in the Western World.Renominating Hardy's Wessex Tales.
Has anyone else seen this reading of Hardy's letter regarding critics?
https://www.goodreads.com/videos/2808...
Rochelle wrote: "Renominating Hardy's Wessex Tales.Has anyone else seen this reading of Hardy's letter regarding critics?
https://www.goodreads.com/videos/2808..."
Very interesting letter. It's seldom we see Hardy's humorous side coming out, but this is something that Mark Twain could have written.
Rochelle wrote: "Renominating Hardy's Wessex Tales."Anything by Hardy is worth seconding, though I would have chosen one of the novels rather than the stories. But I'll happily support it anyhow. It's Hardy!!
I think we've done most of the novels. Is the Bookshelf up-to-date?
Rochelle wrote: "I think we've done most of the novels. Is the Bookshelf up-to-date?"According to the "read" bookshelf, the only one we've done is Jude. And, of course, A Pair of Blue Eyes.
Looking at the Archives folder, we didn't do any in 2014, or in 2013, or in 2012. I didn't go further back than that because there are a lot of new faces here who might be interested in reading books even if they were done before 2012.
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Rochelle That's up to Silver. If you want, nominate your second book and indicate which one you would choose between the two. Silver then has the option of including both or using the one which is most important to you.
Rochelle wrote: "May I make a 2nd nomination?"I will allow a 2nd nomination and when it is time for the poll I will decide based on how many nominations we have whether or not to use both nominations.
So as Deborah states please let me know your top choice.
That's OK; I don't want to rock any boats. We already have 8 or 9.
The poll has now been posted. You will have a week to cast your vote. March 7th will be the last day that voting is open.
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Rosemarie go to the main page and scroll down. It will be near bottom of page
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That is one of the difficulties with the ipad I find, is that it is hard to find the polls and on the Goodreads app they don't show up. Here is a link to the poll, hopefully it helps.
https://www.goodreads.com/poll/list/3...
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The Readers Review: Literature from 1714 to 1910
Books mentioned in this topic
Fathers and Sons (other topics)No Name (other topics)
Père Goriot (other topics)
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Esther Waters (other topics)
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