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| Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle |
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5 | 27.78% |
| Robertson Davies, The Fifth Business |
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2 | 11.11% |
| Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart |
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4 | 22.22% |
| Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North |
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2 | 11.11% |
| John Gardner, Grendel |
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5 | 27.78% |
| Total: | 18 votes | ||
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Ok, here are the poll options for next month's book of the month. Vote early, vote often! As always, though, please only vote if you plan on actually reading that book and posting something about it afterwards in the thread.. Doesn't have to be a witty or brilliant comment or anything, "this book was too loving long" or whatever is fine, just please if you vote for a book think of it as making some minimal commitment to actually participate in next month's thread if that book is selected. Thanks! Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle quote:My name is Mary Katherine Blackwood. I am eighteen years old, and I live with my sister Constance. I have often thought that with any luck at all I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content with what I had. I dislike washing myself, and dogs, and noise. I like my sister Constance, and Richard Plantagenet, and Amanita phalloides, the death-cup mushroom. Everyone else in my family is dead. Robertson Davies, The Fifth Business quote:Fifth Business is a 1970 novel by Canadian playwright, critic, journalist, and professor Robertson Davies. It is the first instalment of the Deptford Trilogy and is a story of the life of the narrator, Dunstan Ramsay. It is Davies' best-known novel[1] and has been called his finest.[2] Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart quote:Things Fall Apart is a novel written by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe in 1958. It is seen as the archetypal modern African novel in English, one of the first to receive global critical acclaim. It is a staple book in schools throughout Africa and is widely read and studied in English-speaking countries around the world. It was first published in 1958 by William Heinemann Ltd in the UK; in 1962, it was also the first work published in Heinemann's African Writers Series. The title of the novel comes from W. B. Yeats' poem "The Second Coming".[1] Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North quote:The Narrow Road to the Deep North is Richard Flanagan's critically acclaimed[1][2] and 2014 Man Booker Prize-winning[3] sixth novel. The book tells the story of Dorrigo Evans, an Australian doctor haunted by a wartime love affair with his uncle's wife. Post war, he finds his growing celebrity as a war hero at odds with his sense of his own failings and guilt. John Gardner, Grendel quote:Grendel is a 1971 novel by American author John Gardner. It is a retelling of part of the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf from the perspective of the antagonist, Grendel. In the novel, Grendel is portrayed as an antihero. The novel deals with finding meaning in the world, the power of literature and myth, and the nature of good and evil. Hieronymous Alloy fucked around with this message at 17:19 on Oct 27, 2014 |
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Oct 27, 2014 15:36
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Ok, It's gonna be Grendel, because it's a tie and I have a first edition of Grendel and have always wanted to talk about it. Other poll candidates may return in future. I'll get the official post up later today.
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Nov 2, 2014 15:14
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