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Lynn , does A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy qualify for this Revisit shelf , or is it considered a tome ? 467 pages , last read October 2019 . Thanks !
I nominate The Iliad Homer Emily Wilson last read 2012. I linked the most anticipated Emily Wilson translation to be published soon.
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Yes it qualifies. Any text we have read in any category can be nominated as long as it was read more than 12 months ago and is not on the list of texts that were in the poll but did not win last month. Oh one more qualifier - only one text per author can be in the same poll. I saw you tried to nominate it on another thread and was already planning to put it in the list of nominations. I tend to do that list about the 7th of the month - right in the middle of the nominations' 15 day period.
Thanks for nominating the book here.
I nominate Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, last read as a group in 2017. My edition has 389 pages, most seem to be around 400.
Lynn wrote: "Savita wrote: "Lynn , does A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy qualify for this Revisit shelf , or is it considered a tome ? 467 pages , last read October 2019 . Thanks !"Yes it qua..."
Thank you so much , Lynn !
I nominate A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy. 467 pages , last read in October 2019 .
@ Terris , Michaela and Jane - thank you for seconding A Pair of Blue Eyes .
Heather L wrote: "I nominate Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, last read as a group in 2017. My edition has 389 pages, most seem to be around 400."I second Wuthering Heights .
Wobbley wrote: "I nominate The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling. Last read by the group in 2017."Second
Dave wrote: "I second A Tale of Two Cities."Thanks 👋
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The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (1939) 479 pages, last read July 2019
Nominated by J_Blueflower:
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens pub. 1859, 489 pages. Last read March 2018
Nominated by Nike: Dave, Aik
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler pub 1979, 287 pp, last read May 2019
Nominated by Elizabeth:
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (1969) 275 pages, last read Sept. 2017.
Nominated by Kimberly: Matt, Jordyn
A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy (1873) 467 pages , last read in October 2019
Nominated by Savita: Terris, Michaela, Jane,
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev (1862) 244 pages, last read April 2014 .
Nominated by Spoko:
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling (1893) 227 pages, Group read 2017
Nominated by Wobbley: RJ-Slayer of Trolls,
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (1847) 464 pages, last read 2017.
Nominated by Heather L.: Erin, Savita
The Iliad by Homer (-750) 683 pages. Last read 07/2012.
Nominated by Sam:
Hi Lynn, I don't see The Jungle Book on the nominations list. I nominated it, and it so far has 1 second (RJ - Slayer of Trolls). Also, Wuthering Heights was nominated by Heather L (rather than Erin), has 2 seconds (Erin and Savita). Also, it is Terris rather than Travis that seconded A Pair of Blue Eyes. Also, I don't see The Iliad (nominated by Sam). Hmm, actually, I wonder if I'm being too quick here, and you're in the middle of working on the list. (Sorry, if that's the case)
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Sorry, I will look again. I was at my son's house with my granddaughters. I should have paid better attention.
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The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (1939) 479 pages, last read July 2019
Nominated by J_Blueflower: Jen
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens pub. 1859, 489 pages. Last read March 2018
Nominated by Nike: Dave, Aik, Shannon SA,
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler pub 1979, 287 pp, last read May 2019
Nominated by Elizabeth:
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (1969) 275 pages, last read Sept. 2017.
Nominated by Kimberly: Matt, Jordyn
A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy (1873) 467 pages , last read in October 2019
Nominated by Savita: Terris, Michaela, Jane,
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev (1862) 244 pages, last read April 2014 .
Nominated by Spoko:
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling (1893) 227 pages, Group read 2017
Nominated by Wobbley: RJ-Slayer of Trolls,
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (1847) 464 pages, last read 2017.
Nominated by Heather L.: Erin, Savita
The Iliad by Homer (-750) 683 pages. Last read 07/2012.
Nominated by Sam:
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Nominated by J_Blueflower: Jen, Kimberly
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens pub. 1859, 489 pages. Last read March 2018
Nominated by Nike: Dave, Aik, Shannon SA,
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (1969) 275 pages, last read Sept. 2017.
Nominated by Kimberly: Matt, Jordyn
A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy (1873) 467 pages , last read in October 2019
Nominated by Savita: Terris, Michaela, Jane,
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling (1893) 227 pages, Group read 2017
Nominated by Wobbley: RJ-Slayer of Trolls,
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (1847) 464 pages, last read 2017.
Nominated by Heather L.: Erin, Savita, Chuck
The top seven books by number of seconds will go to the polls. We currently have a tie for the seventh place.
The Iliad by Homer (-750) 683 pages. Last read 07/2012.
Nominated by Sam:
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler pub 1979, 287 pp, last read May 2019
Nominated by Elizabeth:
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev (1862) 244 pages, last read April 2014 .
Nominated by Spoko:
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The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (1939) 479 pages
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (1859) 489 pages.
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (1969) 275 pages
A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy (1873) 467 pages
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling (1893) 227 pages,
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (1847) 464 pages,
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler (1979), 287 pages
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1. Only books currently on our group bookshelf are eligible: Group Bookshelf
Time Since Last Read. A book is only eligible for rereading if it has not been a group read in the last 12 months (1 year). A book read by the group in any of our reading categories in the past year is not eligible for nomination.
Below is a list of the past year's Revisit the Bookshelf winners. Please do not nominate any of these:
Stoner by John Williams October 2023
East of Eden by John Steinbeck September 2023
The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells August 2023
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien July 2023
Moby-Dick or, the Whale by Herman Melville June 2023
Summer by Edith Wharton May 2023
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson April 2023
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath March 2023
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino February 2023
Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories by Truman Capote January 2023
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott December 2022
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller November 2022
2. When making a nomination, please use "add book/author" link to help moderators and others view the book selected.
3. Only seven books, by seven different authors will move forward to each poll. This will be determined by the number of seconds a book receives. The seven books with the most seconds move to the poll.
4. One nomination and one second per member will be allowed. A nomination can be changed only until it has been seconded. Once seconded, in fairness to the member making the second, the nomination will stand.
You may change a second from one book to another. Please state which book you originally seconded and which you would like to change to.
5. In the interest of variety, please wait a month or more to renominate a book that has been in the poll. These are the books from our last poll:
Stoner by John Williams (1965)
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind (1985)
The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1851)
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot (1860)
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (1958)
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1625)
The Odyssey by Homer (800)
6, Only one book per author; in the event of more than one book by the same author is nominated, only the first one to receive a second will be eligible. The nominator of the ruled ineligible book will be able to nominate a replacement or second another already in nomination.
Nominations will run from September 1st thru the 14th. Polls will open on the 16th and run till the end of the month.