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December 2020 BotM nominations
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Nominations:The Deadly Hours
Wild Beauty
Plain Bad Heroines
The Palace of Illusions
Her One Mistake
The Thing About December
A Gentleman in Moscow
Verity
The Scarlet Letter
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
Plain Bad Heroines
Emily M. Danforth
Our story begins in 1902, at The Brookhants School for Girls. Flo and Clara, two impressionable students, are obsessed with each other and with a daring young writer named Mary MacLane, the author of a scandalous bestselling memoir. To show their devotion to Mary, the girls establish their own private club and call it The Plain Bad Heroine Society. They meet in secret in a nearby apple orchard, the setting of their wildest happiness and, ultimately, of their macabre deaths. This is where their bodies are later discovered with a copy of Mary’s book splayed beside them, the victims of a swarm of stinging, angry yellow jackets. Less than five years later, The Brookhants School for Girls closes its doors forever—but not before three more people mysteriously die on the property, each in a most troubling way.
Over a century later, the now abandoned and crumbling Brookhants is back in the news when wunderkind writer, Merritt Emmons, publishes a breakout book celebrating the queer, feminist history surrounding the “haunted and cursed” Gilded-Age institution. Her bestselling book inspires a controversial horror film adaptation starring celebrity actor and lesbian it girl Harper Harper playing the ill-fated heroine Flo, opposite B-list actress and former child star Audrey Wells as Clara. But as Brookhants opens its gates once again, and our three modern heroines arrive on set to begin filming, past and present become grimly entangled—or perhaps just grimly exploited—and soon it’s impossible to tell where the curse leaves off and Hollywood begins.
A story within a story within a story and featuring black-and-white period illustrations, Plain Bad Heroines is a devilishly haunting, modern masterwork of metafiction that manages to combine the ghostly sensibility of Sarah Waters with the dark imagination of Marisha Pessl and the sharp humor and incisive social commentary of Curtis Sittenfeld into one laugh-out-loud funny, spellbinding, and wonderfully luxuriant read.
I nominate A Gentleman in MoscowAlso, just a suggestion, if we could populate a spreadsheet(or even just a list) with the BOTMs for just the last 2 years and post the link in the intro msg along with the rules, it'd be really helpful while nominating. Thanks :)
Alekhya wrote: "Also, just a suggestion, if we could populate a spreadsheet(or even just a list) with the BOTMs for just the last 2 years and post the link in the intro msg along with the rules, it'd be really helpful while nominating. Thanks :) "I don't keep a separate spreadsheet because all of the books can be found on the group's bookshelf. I sorted by date read and added a link to the main post to make it easier for people. I don't think it's much different to scroll through the bookshelf than it is to scroll through a list I create, so it seems like unnecessary work to recreate the list.
I created a list of books that have already been read twice and are now ineligible. Those are a little less obvious in the bookshelf, so I put them in a spoiler in the first post.
Kristie wrote: "Alekhya wrote: "Also, just a suggestion if we could populate a spreadsheet(or even just a list) with the BOTMs for just the last 2 years and post the link in the intro msg along with the rules, it..."Thanks a lot, Kristie. I joined this group only a few months ago and didn't know I could check the bookshelf, I always used to check the archived BOTM threads (and they were not easy to order by date as people keep commenting long after the month is done). The bookshelf is definitely easier!!
You're welcome, Alekhya. No worries. That was definitely a more difficult way to do it! I'll keep it linked to the first post from now on so others know too.
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Rules:
➙ Please nominate only ONE book.
➙ Books do not need to be seconded.
➙ Do not nominate books that have been read as a BOTM in the past 2 years. Book list can be found on the bookshelf.
➙ If a book has already been a BotM two times, it is no longer eligible to be nominated again. Ineligible books: (view spoiler)[
The Book Thief
The Silent Patient
All the Light We Cannot See
Little Women
The Giver
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➙ Do not nominate books that are the second or later in a series.
➙ Do not use this thread for author self-promotion.
➙ No erotica.
Additional tips -
Please use a book link, if possible. If it's not possible, please include the author's name. I want to make sure I include the correct books! You can add a synopsis from the books Goodread's page, if you like, but it is not necessary.
Directions to add a book link:
This can only be done when online and not when using an app.
When typing in the text box, on top of the box there is a link that says "add book/author". Click on that and a new box will appear. Type your book name in the space provided and click on "search". When you see your book, click the "add" button to the right of it.
To add a link that just has the book name, you can click "link" at the bottom of the "add book/author" box. The link is the automatic setting. To add a book cover, click on "cover" at the bottom left.