MetaChat - Book Club January Selection Nominations!

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18 December 2005

Book Club January Selection Nominations! Rules are here. Nominations will be open till around 12 noon on Tuesday the 20th.→[More:] When I get back, I'll announce the winner on the radio.

Discussion of Cloud Atlas will occur the first non-holiday weekend in January. Our moderator will be amberglow, as he was first to nominate our selection. As such, I'll let him decide when exactly he wants to post the discussion thread.

post by: Eideteker at: 11:24 | 10 comments

Hopefully no one will be offended if I c&p my nomination from last month.

An Artist of the Floating World - Ishiguro. I've been meaning to read it for years. Short and IIRC beautiful prose. Complications of postwar Japan.

posted by selfnoise 18 December | 11:30

Sure, though I believe I gave 2nd place a "BYE" meaning an automatic nomination for this month. I don't think I'll do it for 3rd place, though people are free to nominate it again (just remember you have to moderate if we pick your book).

Thanks for using the properly truncated Amazon link.

posted by Eideteker 18 December | 11:41

If on a winter's night a traveler, by Calvino. One of the truly awesome books I've read in the past five years.

posted by rebirtha 18 December | 12:13

I generally like to discourage nominating books you've already read. How long ago did you read it, and would you read it again in its entirety come January?

posted by Eideteker 18 December | 12:36

About three years, maybe four, and I'd definitely read it again come January. I'll withdraw the nomination if you like, but I don't think having read it before would cause me to moderate the discussion with a pat series of questions or opinions.

posted by rebirtha 18 December | 12:40

hmm, could atlas may just be the thing when i finish this book
(tabulates shipping costs)

posted by ethylene 18 December | 12:42

For lack of anything better, I'll go ahead and nominate "Bringing Down the House" as per yoga's post above.

posted by Eideteker 18 December | 13:04

Blindness by Jose Saramago (I think I did the Amazon link correctly, apologies if I didn't). A novel about a plague of blindness and the ensuing breakdown of society. It won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

posted by amro 18 December | 17:51

I'd like to suggest, Never let me go by Kazuo Ishiguro...been hearing amazing things about it.

posted by oh pollo! 19 December | 03:55

A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit. Creative essays about getting lost.

posted by matildaben 20 December | 15:00

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