Okay - after playing games for the past hour- I finally have 50 posts and officially nominate Tender is the Night by Fitzgerald. (It ought to be so apparent right now that I have absolutely no life whatsoever!!)
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Okay - after playing games for the past hour- I finally have 50 posts and officially nominate Tender is the Night by Fitzgerald. (It ought to be so apparent right now that I have absolutely no life whatsoever!!)
hahaha, Shannon. Welcome to lit net. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by _Shannon_
Nominations so far:
1. Bouquin - The Sea by John Banville
2. NickAdams - The Beach by Alex Garland
3. Pensive - Lord of the Flies by Golding
4. Virgil - Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
5. Turk - Victory by Joseph Conrad
6. Papayahed - Where is Joe Merchant? byJimmy Buffett
7. Shannon - Tender is the Night by Fitzgerald
Thanks Virgil.... I've been aching to find people with whom I could talk about books-- so parlaying my forum addiction since I've found y'all :)
I'd like to nominate Ian McEwan's new one, On Chesil Beach, still wet print :). It's very short, so we'd actually have lots of the summer left for a/ more books, or b/ lying on an actual beach :D.
Nominations so far:
1. Bouquin - The Sea by John Banville
2. NickAdams - The Beach by Alex Garland
3. Pensive - Lord of the Flies by Golding
4. Virgil - Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
5. Turk - Victory by Joseph Conrad
6. Papayahed - Where is Joe Merchant? byJimmy Buffett
7. Shannon - Tender is the Night by Fitzgerald
8. Schokokeks - On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
Last two nominations are up for grabs!
I don't know if these have been done yet already, but I was planning on reading To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf and A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemmingway this summer. Doing either for the book club would be an added bonus.
Thank you for your suggestions, Il Penseroso. We indeed read A Farewell to Arms last year.
Would you like to nominate To The Lighthouse?
Sure.
Can we nominate two? I'm about halfway through Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, and could use the extra forum help to get through the second half. Plus that'd be a very interesting one to discuss.
Nominations are limited to one per member and also, the summer reading's theme is 'beach'. Would Gravity's Rainbow be suitable in that respect?
Well it has a scene where a man while taking a stroll along the beach rescues a woman from a Pavlovian trained octopus by throwing a crab at it. So yes, I believe it would. Can I change my nomination?
And sorry, I didn't realize at first that there is a theme requirement.
It is mentioned in the OP of this thread :)
And yes, of course, you can change your nomination.
Oh, I would be very tempted to vote for To The Lighhouse.Quote:
Originally Posted by Il Penseroso
I'm with you Virgil. I'm looking for strong female authors and Woolf comes from an era I'm interested in.