Please nominate the "Realist" novel you would like to read in March in this thread.
Please remember that:
- Only those members with 50+ posts can nominate.
- One nomination per member.
- Only the first 10 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.
Literary Realism
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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Realist fiction, hmm...
I'll nominate Leslie Feinberg's Stone Butch Blues.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Butch_Blues
"If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia."
- Margaret Atwood
Old Goriot by Balzac. A superb book.
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
Sche, I have a question first before I step back into the club--are we obligated to read the vote winner if we're not interested? I already know about not nominating if we aren't sure we're going to participate-- but I have book guilt over selections that didn't suit my fancy.
I'd quibble, as well, over maybe two of these titles being realist...(ut oh) but shall leave it blowing in the wind.
Last edited by Jozanny; 01-19-2011 at 01:01 AM. Reason: skipped my period
I'll nominate Elliot's Middlemarch, since I've been wanting to read it for a while now.
Well, let me go ahead and nominate Aiding and Abetting by Muriel Spark. You can all read the reviews on Amazon on your own, but she is riding the usual literary blowback of the recently deceased who have previously established their reputations, and I wish I knew her or Doris Lessing. We don't have enough strong womens' voices like theirs, and I probably would have benefited from knowing either. They were bad mothers, btw, and I revel in the knowledge.
(I am working, and thus, contentious...)
Nominations so far:
1. Stone Butch Blues Leslie Feinberg
2. Old Goriot by Balzac
3. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
4. Middlemarch
5. Aiding and Abetting by Muriel Spark
And I would like to nominate The Jungle by Upton Sinclair.No, Jozzy. You don't *have to* read the winners (of course, it is nice if you do but sometimes it simply does not suit one and there are usually enough members who are taking part in the discussions).Originally Posted by Jozanny
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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Realist literature ....
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
Since I have read everything nominated except OrphanPip's title and my own, I obviously won't have to exert much of an effort if I decide to tag along for the duration. Portrait I know too well, however, and therefore might observe from above with an occasional rumble
And also like reading An American Tragedy, but Middlemarch is still my first choice.
I'm not 'in the club' so to speak but I'll nominate the overlooked work of Sinclair Lewis and nominate 'Main Street'
Bist du beschränkt, daß neues Wort dich stört?
Willst du nur hören, was du schon gehört?
Oooh I really want to read that
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
I'll read either of these if they win : ]
Through the darkness of future past
the magician longs to see
one chance out between two worlds
'Fire walk with me.'
Twin Peaks
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
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