Group Reads -> October 2024 -> Nomination Thread (Won by The Shooting Party)

[Nigeyb]

The Shooting Party currently out in front…


https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/2...

[Brian E]

Nigeyb wrote: "The Shooting Party currently out in front…"

Only until RC changes her mind again ;)

[Roman Clodia]

Brian E wrote: "Nigeyb wrote: "The Shooting Party currently out in front…"

Only until RC changes her mind again ;)"

So true, Bri! I've changed my vote about three times already - probably a record 😆

[Alwynne]

I'm still waiting in the wings...

[Roman Clodia]

Alwynne wrote: "I'm still waiting in the wings..."

Woo hoo! 😋

[Nigeyb]

Less than 24 hours to go and, at the time of writing, The Shooting Party continues to narrowly top the poll


https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/2...

[Nigeyb]

We have a winner....



The Shooting Party (1980)

by

Isabel Colegate



Thanks to everyone who got involved 👏🏼



It is 1913 - just prior to England's entry into World War I - and Edwardian England is about to vanish into history. A group of men and women gather at Sir Randolph Nettleby's estate for a shooting party. Opulent, adulterous, moving assuredly through the rituals of eating and slaughter, they are a dazzlingly obtuse and brilliantly decorative finale of an era.

[Hester]

I'd be up for a buddy read of both To the Lighthouse and Therese if anyone else likes the idea

[Blaine]

I’m up for both

[Nigeyb]

I've given up trying with Woolf, and not sure I can fit Therese in, but will follow the buddy with interest

[Nigeyb]

So do you both want to go ahead with those two buddy reads?


Both in October?

Or another month?

Name it and claim it

I'm sure there will be other takers

[Blaine]

I prefer 1 in October and 1 in November, as I'm in the USA in October so I will be busy, but I read To the Lighthouse last year so can probably skim. It's one of my favorites.

[Blaine]

And September is my Agatha Christie month!

[Roman Clodia]

I'm in for Therese - and I'm trying to resist Lighthouse but if people are reading it I won't be able to hold back! Not one to skim, though, Ben 🧐

[Nigeyb]

Naughty Ben 🤠

[Nigeyb]

So....


To The Lighthouse (Oct 24)
Therese (Nov 24)

[Hester]

sounds good to me

[SueLucie]

I’d like to read To the Lighthouse with you and October is good for me. I’ll do my best not to do any skimming.

[Nigeyb]

Threads set up

[Hester]

Thanks Nigelb

[Nigeyb]

🫶🏻

[Brian E]

Having faith that RC would stick with vote, I ordered The Shooting Party the other day. Blind Faith.

I've had this used copy of Vipers' Tangle since the last century and have never gotten around to reading it.
I finally know why. I was destined to instead read as my first novel by François Mauriac. I'm in for November's buddy read.

[Roman Clodia]

Brian E wrote: "Having faith that RC would stick with vote"

Yep, stuck with my *third* vote! I guess I felt Shooting Party would make the most interesting group read.

Not joining us for To the Lighthouse, Brian? 🥺

[Blaine]

Roman Clodia wrote: "I'm in for Therese - and I'm trying to resist Lighthouse but if people are reading it I won't be able to hold back! Not one to skim, though, Ben 🧐"

Ahh, but I've read it already, so it's icing on a very, very yummy cake!

[Roman Clodia]

Haha, it is a gorgeous, wonderful, thrilling book, indeed, Ben!

[Brian E]

Roman Clodia wrote: "Not joining us for To the Lighthouse, Brian?.."

No, but unlike with Mrs. Dalloway, I did connect with To the Lighthouse and I rated it 4 stars. I gave Mrs. D 2 stars. But that was 20 years ago.

And while I may re-read it someday, it will definitely not be during the remainder of 2024 where I will be finishing Proust's In Search of Lost Time and Faulkner's Snopes Trilogy: The Hamlet, The Town, and The Mansion.

Today I read 26 pages of Proust and 55 pages of Faulkner and the thought of having some Woolf as "icing" on my Proust/Faulkner cake makes my stomach churn. I prefer using Wodehouse, Fremlin, Highsmith, Poirots and Cadfaels as my icing - icing that's light like buttercream, fluffy like whipped cream or frothy like meringue rather than dense like fondant. So no Woolf. Highsmith's Found in the Street is my icing de jour.

[Blaine]

I agree, Brian. A scattering of skimmed Woolf words could be icing only on a Woolf cake.

[Jan C]

I'll see about getting started on Woolf. Maybe it won't be quite as much of a drag as Mrs. Dalloway. I see we're starting it on my brother's birthday - so maybe I'll remember it. It's also United Nations Day!

[Roman Clodia]

Jan C wrote: "I'll see about getting started on Woolf. Maybe it won't be quite as much of a drag as Mrs. Dalloway."

Jan, we're doing a buddy read of To the Lighthouse in October, but you may not want to wait till then.

[Jan C]

Roman Clodia wrote: "Jan C wrote: "I'll see about getting started on Woolf. Maybe it won't be quite as much of a drag as Mrs. Dalloway."

Jan, we're doing a buddy read of To the Lighthouse in October, but ..."

Starting now doesn't necessarily mean I would be finished by October. I recall Mrs. Dalloway taking a long time for me, despite its slimness.