Please nominate the book you would like to read during the Valentine's Day week here
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January 25th!
The aim of the Book Club is to read and discuss new books together with other members.
Please try to avoid from voting for the books you have already read and/or do not intend to (re)read with us.
Thank you!
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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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The Lover by Marguerite Duras Tough call though, I had to decide between that one and France's Thais, which is another fantastic novel, though I think Duras wins slightly, so yeah, I nominate The Lover.
Duras's novel The Lover is great. I would love to re-read that.Originally Posted by JBI
LET THERE BE LIGHT
"Love follows knowledge." – St. Catherine of Siena
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I would like to nominate NOVEMBER by Gustave Flaubert.
Here's a summary of the book (it's actually a novella, 100 pages) on the back cover of my copy:
Wrestling with the agony of loneliness, a troubled man looks back over his youth, reliving his once-desperate quest for love. As he withdraws deeper into himself, believing he has now reached the autumn of his life, he recalls his all-encompassing yearning for romance - and how, tragically, it has now given way to an increasing hopelessness. He recalls, too, his once-held belief that the love of a woman could give him the purpose he so craved, and how, convinced with this truth, he visited Marie, a kind-hearted prostitute. Yet Marie, too, was starved of love and longing for acceptance. As his memories come to the fore, Marie and his younger self together form a tragic portrait of personal anguish - and provide the basis for Flaubert's extraordinary outpouring of romantic longing.
An intense, passionate, and profoundly moving work, Flaubert's November explores the notion of desire and longing to most remarkable effect.
"He lives most gaily who knows best how to deceive himself. Ha-ha!"
- CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
Last two days to nominate!
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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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Persuasion - Jane Austen.
Nominations so far:
1.Persuasion by Jane Austen
2. November by Gustave Flaubert.
3. The Lover by Marguerite Duras
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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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Since it has to be a classic...:
Ivan Turgenev - First Love
...As a moth mistakes a bulb
for the moon, and goes to hell...
-Tom Waits-
Hello Lupe,
I am not sure what you mean by "classic" but it can be a recently published book as well.
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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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Can anybody nominate a book?
If so, how about "Like Water for Chocolate" by Laura Esquivel. I had a hard time deciding between that and Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac, my all-time favorite play.
Hmm, I think you need 50 posts to nominate, but we'll let Scher decide when she comes back. Nonetheless it won't take long for you to accumulate 50 posts.
LET THERE BE LIGHT
"Love follows knowledge." – St. Catherine of Siena
My literature blog: http://ashesfromburntroses.blogspot.com/
I know, Sher, I was half-joking, considering LitNet member's habbits and the three first nominations...
...As a moth mistakes a bulb
for the moon, and goes to hell...
-Tom Waits-
I'll nominate: That Thing Called Love by Tuhin A. Sinha.
As Virgil has already pointed out, you need to have at least 50 posts to nominate/vote.
Okay!I know, Sher, I was half-joking, considering LitNet member's habbits and the three first nominations...
Nominations so far:
1.Persuasion by Jane Austen
2. November by Gustave Flaubert.
3. The Lover by Marguerite Duras
4. That Thing Called Love by Tuhin A. Sinha
5. First Love by Ivan Turgenev
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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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oh Oh I want to read the mathematics of love by emma darwin, the book keeps juming off the shelves at me and I love the cover!
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mathematics-.../dp/0755330625
although I could nominate a mills and boon or ooh wait a second
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