March '13 / Muriel Spark Nominations

[Scheherazade]

Please nominate the Muriel Spark book you would like to read in March in this thread by February 10th.

Please remember that:

- Only those members with 50+ posts can nominate.

- One nomination per member.

- Only the first 5 nominations will be included in the poll.


The Book Club readings are for those who would like to read and discuss books together with other members.

If you are not able to take part or unwilling to (re)read your own nominations, please refrain from nominating book.

[TheFifthElement]

The Comforters

(I love Muriel Spark :D)

[Scheherazade]

I read Aiding and Abetting couple of years ago, which was good.

Would like to nominate The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie simply because the title is too good to be left out.

[aliengirl]

Agreed Scher. The title is quite eye-catching. I'd second the nomination of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.

[Scheherazade]

Nominations so far:

1. The Comforters

2. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

[Scheherazade]

Please vote by February 28th.

[TheFifthElement]

I have voted :D Even if Jean Brodie is the winner I might just join you. It's an ace book. Miss Jean Brodie is very funny (and kinda sad too).

[Scheherazade]

I saw the DVD at the library today and was tempted to borrow it but I will wait until after I have read it.

I think I will read the winner regardless as well.

[Scheherazade]

Not another tie, please!

[TheFifthElement]

We could always read them both Scher ;)

[qimissung]

That's not a bad idea. :)

[plainjane]

Oh! Oh! :)

May I nominate another Sparks??

Memento Mori

From Amazon.....
"Unforgettably astounding and a joy to read, Memento Mori is considered by many to be the greatest novel by the wizardly Dame Muriel Spark.

In late 1950s London, something uncanny besets a group of elderly friends: an insinuating voice on the telephone informs each, "Remember you must die." Their geriatric feathers are soon thoroughly ruffled by these seemingly supernatural phone calls, and in the resulting flurry many old secrets are dusted off. Beneath the once decorous surface of their lives, unsavories like blackmail and adultery are now to be glimpsed. As spooky as it is witty, poignant and wickedly hilarious, Memento Mori may ostensibly concern death, but it is a book which leaves one relishing life all the more."

[qimissung]

I voted after all.

[aliengirl]

I remembered I have to vote for this one, just in time. :)

[Scheherazade]

Oh! Oh! :)

May I nominate another Sparks??

Hi, Jane.

The nominations are over, I am afraid and now we are voting for the book to read in March.

Would you like to take part?

On a positive note, I think the library has an e-copy of Miss Brodie.

[plainjane]

Hi, Jane.

The nominations are over, I am afraid and now we are voting for the book to read in March.

Would you like to take part?

On a positive note, I think the library has an e-copy of Miss Brodie.

So sorry, I misunderstood the timing. :)

[Scheherazade]

No worries, Jane.

Wouldn't you like to join our reading in March?

[plainjane]

No worries, Jane.

Wouldn't you like to join our reading in March?

Thanks Scher...I've ordered the book. :D Looking forward to the discussion.

[Scheherazade]

Going once...