August Nominations

[Admin]

Sorry late with thread, post em here.

[verybaddmom]

"The Jade Peony"
by Wayson Choy....


winner of the Trillium book award.
"a lyrical tale of growing up in Vancouver's early Chinatown. Intelligently and sensitively told, with dialogue that crackles with wit and familiarity."
-Denise Chong, author of "The Concubine's Children"

[nothingman87]

I nominate Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy.
Here's a brief summary:
"Violated by one man, forsaken by another, Tess Durbyfield is the magnificent and spirited heroine of Hardy's immortal work. Of all the great English novelists, no one writes more eloquently of tragic destiny than Hardy. With the innocent and powerless victim, Tess, he creates profound sympathy for human frailty, while passionately indicting the injustices of Victorian society."

C'mon you know you just wanna read some Hardy. ;)

[papayahed]

The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett

[Edzabeen]

Daddy-Long Legs by Jean Webster :lol:

[Kiwi Shelf]

"Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte

[Stanislaw]

One good turn, a history of the screw and screw driver.

[subterranean]

1984..though i have read it i want it to be openly discuss in the forum!

[Shadowraven]

I'll be voting for 1984. It makes sense since there is an entire section on this forum dedicated to Orwell.

[Raven]

'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightime' by
Mark Haddon

[amuse]

1984. haven't read it since oh, '84/'85.
egads, with dates like that you'd think i'd remember which year it was! :D

[Lizzie]

I haven't read any of the books that were nominated and of that group i only own George Orwell's "1984".
In a futuristic mode i've read Aldous Huxley?'s "A Brave New World" and a few years ago "The last day" by Glenn Kleier.
I would like to propose a brasilian author, Paulo Coelho and his book "The Alchimist". He is, in my opinion, a very spiritual author; i read three of his books and liked the three very much.

Lizzie

[earth]

Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

[amuse]

i liked the alchemist, left it with an old friend after reading it because it was so good.

[nome1486]

I like the idea of Brothers Karamazov; that would be fun to discuss. I assume that at some point there will be a poll for us to vote on? I haven't voted on here before.

[verybaddmom]

yes, nome, in the next few days or so, Admin, or sometimes it used to be Kik, will post a poll and we all vote. then we read..then usually there is a little discussion and onto the next book. ;)
in the meantime, we continue to nominate and wait patiently..........

[subterranean]

1984. haven't read it since oh, '84/'85.
egads, with dates like that you'd think i'd remember which year it was! :D


Amuse, how old are you?

[amuse]

34 and a half.
teehee. i love halves. :)
how old are you?

[atreides]

with an avatar like that, he must be 12 (kidding).

I would like to nominate Gone with the Wind. The Alchemist is a terrific book also.

However Im guessing its preferable to be a book listed on the website, so out of them I would like to nominate Gullivers Travels and Huckleberry Finn, because I really like childresn literature.

[sherry]

there maybe ．．．．．．．．．．．

[subterranean]

34 and a half.
teehee. i love halves. :)
how old are you?

didnt u say you are 16?


with an avatar like that, he must be 12 (kidding).

oh u guess corretly, here's 10 bucks :)

[amuse]

didnt u say you are 16?
hunh? where?

[faith]

Wuthering Heights would be good cos I just read it, but Im not gonna nominate it but JD Salinges's The Catcher in the Rye, cos that is a book I really fell in love with last month. So The Catcher in the Rye by Salinger!

[subterranean]

hunh? where?

must be someone else :rolleyes:

sorry :)

[Admin]

Sorry guys, been real busy. I'm going to go ahead and let The Black Tulip continue on and these nominations will be for September.