Nominations June 2021

[Charlene]

It's time for June's nominations! There is no theme this month. Books we haven't read in the past three years are eligible for nomination. They must be written by a woman and published at least 50 years ago. Please let me know if you can lead.

Nominations ends April 14th

Link to bookshelf: https://www.goodreads.com/group/books...

[Carolien]

I'd like to nominate So Big. I can lead.

[Suzann]

For Love Alone by Christina Stead? I think this group read this Australian author's later novel The Man Who Loved Children some time ago.

[Carol]

I nominate Ivy Compton-Burnett's 1935 novel, A House and Its Head.

Summary:

Duncan Edgeworth rules over his family with steely authority in a country village of idyllic beauty, rapacious gossip and motives of the purest malignity. A crowd of neighbors watches on as Duncan’s scandalous remarriage sparks the chaos that will engulf his family and set off a battle of wills in their tangled community.

[Charlene]

I just found out about this author. So my nomination is Above Suspicion by Helen MacInnes which was published in 1941.

[☯Emily , The First]

I nominated one of her books a few months back. She was one of the first spy novelists.

[Charlene]

☯Emily wrote: "I nominated one of her books a few months back. She was one of the first spy novelists."

We get so many great nominations that it is hard to keep track of them all.

[Marilyn]

Charlene wrote: "I just found out about this author. So my nomination is Above Suspicion by Helen MacInnes which was published in 1941."

My library doesn't have the book but it has the movie starring Joan Crawford and Fred MacMurray. Released in 1943.

[Charlene]

A couple more days for nominations.

[Marilyn]

I nominate The Grass Is Singing by Doris Lessing. Published in 1950.

[Charlene]

It is time to vote.

June's choices are:
The Grass Is Singing
Above Suspicion
A House and Its Head
So Big


Eligible members to vote are:
Emily
Ginny
Carol She’s So Novel
Hannah
Anastasia Kinderman
Francis
Charlene
Tia
Carolien
Viv
Marilyn
Milanna
Cam
Carol
Mizzou
Kathleen
Suzann
Nidhi
Suki
Eileen
Lisa
Indeneri


Please let me know if you think you are eligible to vote and I missed your name.

Please have votes in by Thursday April 22.

[Charlene]

Charlene wrote: "It is time to vote.

June's choices are:
The Grass Is Singing
Above Suspicion
A House and Its Head
So Big


Eligible members to vote are:
E..."

I missed a nomination. I can resend the email tomorrow with all nominations

Choices include:
For Love Alone
So Big
A House and Its Head
Above Suspicion
The Grass Is Singing

[Hannah]

My vote is for So Big

[Charlene]

The winner is So Big

[Carol]

What fun! I’m looking forward to this discussion.

[Nidhi]

Me too. I am in.😀

[Charlene]

Carolien wrote: "I'd like to nominate So Big. I can lead."

What discussion threads do you want set up for this book?

[Charlene]

I just put the hold on this at the library. It usually takes about a week for it to get out to the Hy-Vee book locker for me to pick up. Book locker is closer to my house than the library is.

[Carolien]

Charlene, just a non-spoiler and separate spoiler thread please.