Suggestions:November 2008 Book of the Month

[Robert]

I still haven't read it either. I bought it about a month ago, I keep picking up other books.

That's not so bad. I picked my copy up at an auction last summer.

 

[impalpable]

That's not so bad. I picked my copy up at an auction last summer.

I can one up you there, I was supposed to read this for class and never did!

 

[irishclover011]

I can one up you there, I was supposed to read this for class and never did!

Aww, Stowe is like Dante for you. I was supposed to read the second book for class, and didn't until the following summer when I read all three. That was a bad idea by the way. I was ready to go back to hell by the end of it.

 

[impalpable]

Aww, Stowe is like Dante for you. I was supposed to read the second book for class, and didn't until the following summer when I read all three. That was a bad idea by the way. I was ready to go back to hell by the end of it.

So true, at least you read Dante though... I took that class about 4 years ago and still haven't read Stowe lol.

 

[irishclover011]

It is remarkable the things one can put off reading.

 

[Anamnesis]

Ooh, I'd be interested in reading Fun Home.

*thirds joderu's suggestion*

 

[irishclover011]

If that is the book I'm thinking of it is awesome.

 

[Robert]

I wonder if the number of suggestions isn't getting a little out of hand. Sould we consider limiting the number of suggestions a member can make each month?

 

[Robert]

What we have so far (if they'll all fit in a single post )

Libra
Uncle Tom's Cabin

SeoulMan
Edith Wharton, The Custom of the Country (I already read her The House of Mirth and The Age of Innocence)
Sandra Cisneros, The House on Mango Street
Nadine Gordimer, The Conservationist

Robert
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans).
The Auctioneer by Joan Samson.

silverseason
Charlotte Bronte, Villette
Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford
Rebecca West, The Fountain Overflows
Any Cather book is good. I particularly like The Song of the Lark

Peder
Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen)
Mrs. Dalloway by Wirginia Woolf
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The Lover by Marguerite Duras
Bonjour Tristesse by Francoise Sagan
My Antonia by Willa Cather
Any of the Brontés

pontalba
Pearl Buck - The Good Earth

impalpable
The Waves Virginia Woolf
Kitchen Banana Yoshimoto
The Hand Maid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

abecedarian
The Rice Mother-Rani Maneka
The Joys of Motherhood-Bhuchi Emecheta

Silvanous
The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination by Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar

Aquablue
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

gonewiththewind
Joyce Carol Oates' Wild Things

Sleepy
The Awakening by Kate Chopin

Joderu95
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman - Mary Wollstonecraft
A Handful Of Dust - Evelyn Waugh
The Feminine Mystique - Betty Friedan
The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
The Powers and Duties of Poor Law Guardians in Times of Exceptional Distress - Emmiline Pankhurst
Death Comes For The Archbishop - Willa Cather
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
Janet Doncaster - Millicent Fawcett
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
The Second Sex - Simone de Beauvoir
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J.K. Rowling
Funhome: A Family Tragicomic - Allison Bechdel
An American Childhood - Annie Dillard
Modern American Memoirs - "
The Living - "

 

[Peder]

Strike mine.

 

[Libra]

I wonder if the number of suggestions isn't getting a little out of hand. Sould we consider limiting the number of suggestions a member can make each month?

Yes.


Maybe there was a hint after all just for this reason.:whistling:




How about we pick 5 each and discuss from there until the 21stinnocent

and we see what we come up with?

 

[Isabell]

I would love to read Sandra Cisneros-The House on Mango Street.

 

[Robert]

Yes.


Maybe there was a hint after all just for this reason.:whistling:

Hint? Are you a step ahead of me (again)?

 

[Libra]

Hint? Are you a step ahead of me (again)?

Sorry Robert, I have this weakness and it's called:planning:lol:

 

[Anamnesis]

How about we pick 5 each and discuss from there until the 21st()

and we see what we come up with?

If you mean five possible selections, mine are:

Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Bell Jar by Slyvia Plath

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

 

[Libra]

I hope whoever is suggesting is also participating.

 

[gonewiththewind]

From the list that Robert posted, I suggest:

1. Uncle Tom's Cabin
2. The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination

Make that my vote. :flowers:

 

[Libra]

This was hard but here are my five:


Simone de Beauvoir-The Second Sex

George Eliot-The Mill on the Floss

Francoise Sagan -Bonjour Tristesse

Sandra Cisneros-The House on Mango Street

Alison Bechdel-Fun Home

 

[Robert]

I hope whoever is suggesting is also participating.

A very sound suggestion, Libra. I'll withrawl my suggestions since I don't know whether or not I'm going to participate in November.

 

[Libra]

A very sound suggestion, Libra. I'll withrawl my suggestions since I don't know whether or not I'm going to participate in November.

(God forbid I tell you what to do.:whistling

That is up to you Robert, my comment was to some new faces making suggestions and it would be nice to have more participants in the discussion.