January / South African Reading Poll

Just found out about this place and like the idea of an online monthly book discussion.

Someone mentioned Doris Lessing. Her first novel, The Grass Is Singing, is worthy of a nomination.

Coetzee's Disgrace would be great for discussion.

I read The Conservationist a long time ago and don't remember all that much about it except that I liked it.

Nominations at the moment:

1. Cry, Beloved Country by Alan Paton

2. Slow Man by J.M. Coetzee

3. The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer

4. Coconut by Kopano Matlwa

5. The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay

6. Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee


Welcome to the Forum hellsapoppin and rmd! :) Looking forward to reading your comments on our discussions.

Has anyone heard anything about The Power of One? It is one of the books in BBC's Big Read list and has got excellent comments on amazon:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Power-One-Br...4259623&sr=8-2

I will nominate The Grass Is Singing by Doris Lessing.

I've wanted to read Disgrace for some time now.

Hope you will be able to join us, Nick! :)

rmd> Unfortunately, only those members with at leas 50 posts can nominate/vote in the Book Club... Which is not so hard if you visit our General Chat/Games section. :)

Fair enough.

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Originally Posted by Scheherazade

Hope you will be able to join us, Nick! :)

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Me too. I haven't been able to participate in the past few months. I can't wait for the new year.

I would like to nominate My Son's Story by Nadine Gordimer.
Thanks.

Nominations so far:

1. Cry, Beloved Country by Alan Paton

2. Slow Man by J.M. Coetzee

3. The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer

4. Coconut by Kopano Matlwa

5. The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay

6. Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee

7. My Son's Story by Nadine Gordimer

I would like to nominate "Martha Quest" by Doris Lessing. Sounds like a good read.

Jeff

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Originally Posted by NickAdams

Me too. I haven't been able to participate in the past few months. I can't wait for the new year.

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I'm very excited about this new year, and the turn that the Book Club has chosen for the following year. I think we should retain this format for future reference, and maybe make a rule that no country remain on for more than two years in a row. This would definitely diversify everyone.

There are some great books that people are referring, and I am happy to have some good ones to add to my list. I might just make January my South African reading month. Thanks everyone.

Nominations so far:

1. Cry, Beloved Country by Alan Paton

2. Slow Man by J.M. Coetzee

3. The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer

4. Coconut by Kopano Matlwa

5. The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay

6. Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee

7. My Son's Story by Nadine Gordimer

8. Martha Quest by Doris Lessing


B-Mental> If we decide to follow 'Country of the Month' method the following year as well, probably we will make sure that the same countries do not get picked (we already have this rule for books: the same book cannot be read in two consecutive years).

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Originally Posted by Niamh

oaky here is ny nomination
Cry, Beloved Country by Alan Paton

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I would have nominated this one too. :D I had it in my book shelf and a few days ago while looking at it, I just thought of trying it and now I am more than half way through it. (only about thirty pages are left!) I would say it's quite interesting.

I was planning on reading "Waiting for the Barbarians" by Coetzee so that would be my nomination.

Nominations so far:

1. Cry, Beloved Country by Alan Paton

2. Slow Man by J.M. Coetzee

3. The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer

4. Coconut by Kopano Matlwa

5. The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay

6. Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee

7. My Son's Story by Nadine Gordimer

8. Martha Quest by Doris Lessing

9. Waiting for the Barbarians by Coetzee

Last three days!