Valentine's Day Reading Poll '09

[Scheherazade]

http://www.snitchseeker.com/vb3/images/smilies/violin.gifPlease nominate the book you would like to read during the Valentine's Day week herehttp://www.snitchseeker.com/vb3/images/smilies/violin.gif

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January 25th!

The aim of the Book Club is to read and discuss new books together with other members.

Please try to avoid from voting for the books you have already read and/or do not intend to (re)read with us.

Thank you!



Book Club Regulations (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4104)

[JBI]

The Lover by Marguerite Duras Tough call though, I had to decide between that one and France's Thais, which is another fantastic novel, though I think Duras wins slightly, so yeah, I nominate The Lover.

[Virgil]

The Lover by Marguerite Duras Tough call though, I had to decide between that one and France's Thais, which is another fantastic novel, though I think Duras wins slightly, so yeah, I nominate The Lover.

Duras's novel The Lover is great. I would love to re-read that.

[bouquin]

I would like to nominate NOVEMBER by Gustave Flaubert.

Here's a summary of the book (it's actually a novella, 100 pages) on the back cover of my copy:

Wrestling with the agony of loneliness, a troubled man looks back over his youth, reliving his once-desperate quest for love. As he withdraws deeper into himself, believing he has now reached the autumn of his life, he recalls his all-encompassing yearning for romance - and how, tragically, it has now given way to an increasing hopelessness. He recalls, too, his once-held belief that the love of a woman could give him the purpose he so craved, and how, convinced with this truth, he visited Marie, a kind-hearted prostitute. Yet Marie, too, was starved of love and longing for acceptance. As his memories come to the fore, Marie and his younger self together form a tragic portrait of personal anguish - and provide the basis for Flaubert's extraordinary outpouring of romantic longing.

An intense, passionate, and profoundly moving work, Flaubert's November explores the notion of desire and longing to most remarkable effect.

[Scheherazade]

Last two days to nominate!

[Thespian1975]

Persuasion - Jane Austen.

[Scheherazade]

Nominations so far:

1.Persuasion by Jane Austen

2. November by Gustave Flaubert.

3. The Lover by Marguerite Duras

[lupe]

Since it has to be a classic...:

Ivan Turgenev - First Love

[Scheherazade]

Hello Lupe,

I am not sure what you mean by "classic" but it can be a recently published book as well.

[Wilde woman]

Can anybody nominate a book?

If so, how about "Like Water for Chocolate" by Laura Esquivel. I had a hard time deciding between that and Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac, my all-time favorite play.

[Virgil]

Hmm, I think you need 50 posts to nominate, but we'll let Scher decide when she comes back. Nonetheless it won't take long for you to accumulate 50 posts.

[lupe]

Hello Lupe,

I am not sure what you mean by "classic" but it can be a recently published book as well.

I know, Sher, I was half-joking, considering LitNet member's habbits and the three first nominations...;)

[thelastmelon]

I'll nominate: That Thing Called Love by Tuhin A. Sinha.

[Scheherazade]

Can anybody nominate a book?

If so, how about "Like Water for Chocolate" by Laura Esquivel. I had a hard time deciding between that and Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac, my all-time favorite play.As Virgil has already pointed out, you need to have at least 50 posts to nominate/vote.


I know, Sher, I was half-joking, considering LitNet member's habbits and the three first nominations...;)Okay! :D

Nominations so far:

1.Persuasion by Jane Austen

2. November by Gustave Flaubert.

3. The Lover by Marguerite Duras

4. That Thing Called Love by Tuhin A. Sinha

5. First Love by Ivan Turgenev

[Nightshade]

oh Oh I want to read the mathematics of love by emma darwin, the book keeps juming off the shelves at me and I love the cover!
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mathematics-Love-Emma-Darwin/dp/0755330625
although I could nominate a mills and boon or ooh wait a second
PS I love you ...:D

[Dori]

Can I still nominate?

If so, I nominate Eugene Onegin by Pushkin. :D

[Nightshade]

Scher can I change my nomination to Beauty by Robin Mckinley? :D

[Scheherazade]

Nominations so far:

1.Persuasion by Jane Austen

2. November by Gustave Flaubert.

3. The Lover by Marguerite Duras

4. That Thing Called Love by Tuhin A. Sinha

5. First Love by Ivan Turgenev

6. Eugene Onegin by Pushkin

7. Beauty by Robin by Mckinley

[JBI]

Oh darn, Pushkin! my favorite work - now I'm torn. And Jane Austen too! It's a shame we don't get such good nominations for the major book-club books, since this is only a one day one.

[Jeremiah Jazzz]

I'm definitely going with the Pushkin! So the deal is that the book needs to be read BY Febuary 14th? I'm pretty new to the forums, and especially new to the book club.

[Virgil]

I may have to hold off on this. I'm getting overwhelmed with reading I do want to read Kim and Richard II in February as well. I'm not going to vote now, though I would enjoy reading The Lover again and I've been meaning to read Pursuasion.

[rimbaud]

so when do we get the result? for this one and the fev book club
really looking forward to it

[Niamh]

come on beauty!!! I just read that! Love the beauty and the beast story!
If persuasion gets novel of manners and beauty valentines i'll be happy!

[Nightshade]

Have we ever had a 6 way split before?
I can't find That thing called love on amazon (??)

[eyemaker]

I haven't yet read most of them..only Persuasio and Eugene O.. :)
Perhaps i'll try browsing my mother's shelf this afternoon. :)

[Delta40]

You mean nobody is interested in a Harlequin romance????

[Scheherazade]

Going once...

[Virgil]

Oh darn. I wanted to read Persuasion in the April read. I've got Kim for February already.

[Scheherazade]

Going twice...

[papayahed]

I might as well pick this one up, I finished Richard II and I'm not participating in the monthly.

[Janine]

Oh darn. I wanted to read Persuasion in the April read. I've got Kim for February already.

Then why did you vote for it, V? I was wondering if everyone voted for it, because of the new BBC production of 'Persausion'...the one everyone has been talking about recently.:lol:

[Niamh]

you mean the one that was out last year? thought that was an itv production. very disapointing end. LW will agree with me on this one.

[Virgil]

Then why did you vote for it, V? I was wondering if everyone voted for it, because of the new BBC production of 'Persausion'...the one everyone has been talking about recently.:lol:

Because I didn't think it would win in April, so I might as well put a nail in the coffin now. I do really want to read another Austen novel.

[Niamh]

persuasion is a great one!
So virg! how about voting for Wives and Daughters in April? Gaskell is very Austen and Dickens in one.

[Maria_1]

First Love- Ivan Turgenev