March / War Novel Poll

[Jozanny]

This genre is proving to be popular!

Yes indeed, we're about filled up! Virgil picked a good genre, and I am interested in most of the titles; it will be good to open spring with!

[motherhubbard]

With the same account mother? I know I commit the sin of off-topic digression, but what has probably ruined me in my middle age as a writer is my inability to handle major disruptions in life without ripping out my hair, and my chair died right before the major American holidays, and now has conveniently merged with it being time to renovate my floor and my ex'es, below me. I have to be placed on the second flr, in a used power chair I can barely manage and don't trust, and my sister is fighting with me because she wants my help financially and I put my foot down, and my little brother wants to kill us both. So I am not writing! Like that solves anything! But I am a surf junkie, and it will kill me if the movers freak out my computer, even if I assume the worst But if I can just transfer my handle and account to the library, that will be cool.

I'm sorry you're having such a stressful time right now- I hope it's short lived.

I just Google online literature and the lit net comes up first thing ( I don’t know the web address ) and then go to forums and log in as usual. No Problems!

[JBI]

If this counts - Obasan by Joy Kogawa, otherwise, The Wars by Timothy Findley.

Obasan deals with Japanese internment in Canada during WW2, so I don't know if that counts per say as a war novel, but Findley's work definitely is. I nominate Obasan, and if not that, Findley's The Wars.

[Virgil]

Wow, when I nominated this genre I didn't think there would be a lot of interest, but this seems to be the fastest to nine book nominations I have ever seen. Should be an interesting vote. I don't think I'd mind reading (and in some cases re-reading) any of those novels.

[Jozanny]

If this counts - Obasan by Joy Kogawa, otherwise, The Wars by Timothy Findley.

Obasan deals with Japanese internment in Canada during WW2, so I don't know if that counts per say as a war novel, but Findley's work definitely is. I nominate Obasan, and if not that, Findley's The Wars.

I think it would count JBI, as it deals with a policy act out of WW2. I knew we had internment camps. I did not know Canadians followed suit. Sounds interesting to me, thanks. I am looking for something out of the mold, as it were, even though I have plenty bookmarks in more than a few things. I might return to Sherman's memoirs too. I have the LOA edition; he may have been a lousy president, but he was the soldier who gave the Union back to Lincoln. I started them years ago and drifted off, but now my temperment could use some history.

[Virgil]

I think it would count JBI, as it deals with a policy act out of WW2. I knew we had internment camps. I did not know Canadians followed suit. Sounds interesting to me, thanks. I am looking for something out of the mold, as it were, even though I have plenty bookmarks in more than a few things. I might return to Sherman's memoirs too. I have the LOA edition; he may have been a lousy president, but he was the soldier who gave the Union back to Lincoln. I started them years ago and drifted off, but now my temperment could use some history.

You must mean Grant's memoirs, Jozy.

[JBI]

We have 10 now? We had nine before, and now that Obasan, I guess, has been decided upon maybe we can start discussing/pasting quotes and things.

[Niamh]

Man this is going to be an interesting vote!!!
I'm torn between Red Badge of Courage, All quiet on the western front and Master and Commander....

[Jozanny]

You must mean Grant's memoirs, Jozy.

No, Sherman hon, except I transformed him into Grant without thinking. My first senior moment! I remember the opening of the book; he chases Native renegades in Florida and then goes to California, and that is where I left him, but I might return to the book.

Sorry for my slip peoples.

[Virgil]

No, Sherman hon, except I transformed him into Grant without thinking. My first senior moment! I remember the opening of the book; he chases Native renegades in Florida and then goes to California, and that is where I left him, but I might return to the book.

Sorry for my slip peoples.

I didn't know Sherman wrote a memoir. I'll have to look into it.

[Jozanny]

I didn't know Sherman wrote a memoir. I'll have to look into it.

Yep. I have a small, not very extensive, LOA collection, and they have a volume of Sherman's memoirs. He comes off as a crusty libertarian, but he actually isn't a bad writer for a General, and perhaps my Freudian slip was due to the fact that he might have been a 19th century Eisenhower we needed, as opposed to Grant.

I am still ashamed of my neurons misfiring here.

[Virgil]

Yep. I have a small, not very extensive, LOA collection, and they have a volume of Sherman's memoirs. He comes off as a crusty libertarian, but he actually isn't a bad writer for a General, and perhaps my Freudian slip was due to the fact that he might have been a 19th century Eisenhower we needed, as opposed to Grant.

I am still ashamed of my neurons misfiring here.

Oh don't worry about your neurons. God knows how many mistakes I've made here.

[_Shannon_]

Shoot- I missed nominating! I was going to nominate Atonement. However- there's lots of great choices there!!

[caspian]

hello everyone! i've not been here almost a year. I decided to skip 2008 foreign reading, came back in december, and skipped january reading too, i'm not in thriller at all. i looked at young adult poll - i'll go with the winner, would be glad even to reread "catcher in the rye". i'm not in war fiction either, but right now i'm reading "african gueen" by Forester and it's good, i'm so glad that i avoided to watch the movie several times.
i've read a lot of novels about Word War II, Napaleon wars, but nothing on Word War I. i hope there's already some book on that subject in our list.
i've read "for whom the bells tolls" and other book of Hemingway :"farewell to arms" years ago. I don't like hemingway- and i know why- if we end up reading him we can discuss it.

[Scheherazade]

Nominations are:

1. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

2. Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield

3. The Naked and The Dead by Norman Mailer

4. All Quiet On The Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

5. The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

6. A Soldier of the Great War by Mark Helprin

7. Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

8. Catch 22 by Heller

9. Master and Commander by Patrick O'brian[/QUOTE]

10. Obasan by Joy Kogawa

Caspian> It is so nice to see you! Hope you will be around for the discusssions.