Oct/Nov/Dec 2021 Nominations & Voting!

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Oct/Nov/Dec 2021 Nominations & Voting!

1sweetiegherkin
Jun 9, 2021, 10:51 am

Hi all,

Please add to this thread the names of any authors you'd be interested in reading and discussing to finish out 2021.

Reminder: Any author already discussed in the past 2 years is not eligible to be re-upped yet. (You can find the list here: https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php/Monthly_Author_Reads)

However, you CAN re-nominate an author that was nominated in the last round but didn't make the final cut.

Don't forget to second (or third, or fourth) others people's nominations. The top 3 authors will be our October through December reads.

Kindly get all your nominations and votes in by August 1 so we have ample time to get a hold of books for each month.

Thank you!

2sweetiegherkin
Jun 11, 2021, 8:39 am

How about F. Scott Fitzgerald? His The Great Gatsby went out of copyright this year, and as NPR put it: "In the public domain, Gatsby may now become even more familiar. Two new editions are about to come out and who knows what kind of projects — a Gatsby rom-com? Gatsby joins The Avengers? — might now get a green light..."

https://www.npr.org/2021/01/02/952737126/opinion-the-great-gatsby-enters-public-...

3sweetiegherkin
Jun 11, 2021, 8:41 am

4sweetiegherkin
Jun 11, 2021, 8:58 am

Hah, in looking back I see that I nominated Fitzgerald and Orwell for the spring as well with no traction. Oh well.

Side note: Anyone else having technical issues with LT lately? I think it is this site and not my computer but trying to narrow it down.

5Tara1Reads
Jun 11, 2021, 1:49 pm

>3 sweetiegherkin: I will second all four of those authors.

>4 sweetiegherkin: I am not having technical issues with LT.

I will nominate the following:

Nevil Shute
John Dos Passos
Donal Ryan
W.G. Sebald
Richard Russo

6sweetiegherkin
Jun 14, 2021, 9:38 pm

>5 Tara1Reads: I'll second the first four you listed. I rather disliked Empire Falls, so I'm not interested in more Russo.

Hmm, good to know there's no technical issues with LT on your end. I'll need to troubleshoot some more.

7dianelouise100
Jun 16, 2021, 12:01 pm

I’ll nominate Evelyn Waugh, who has numerous titles on the 1001 list. I’ve not read him, but he’s been on my TBR for awhile now. And I’ll second Edith Wharton and Edna O’Brien.

8sweetiegherkin
Jun 17, 2021, 2:09 pm

9sweetiegherkin
Jun 23, 2021, 10:12 pm

What about Angie Thomas? I know her books are marketed for teens but I feel like there is crossover appeal for adults as well.

10Tara1Reads
Jun 23, 2021, 10:45 pm

11BookConcierge
Jun 28, 2021, 12:35 pm

I'll second Nevil Shute

12john257hopper
Jul 26, 2021, 10:38 am

I'd back nominations for Scott Fitzgerald, Orwell and Waugh.

13john257hopper
Editado: Jul 26, 2021, 10:39 am

and Edith Wharton as a back up

14sweetiegherkin
Jul 27, 2021, 8:58 am

I'll fourth (or fifth?) Evelyn Waugh.

15sweetiegherkin
Ago 3, 2021, 7:49 pm

Okay, so right now we have Evelyn Waugh for definite for October.

But then we have a three-way tie between F. Scott Fitzgerald, George Orwell, and Nevil Shute.

I'm going to give it to the end of the week (8/9) for folks to pipe in with any further votes so we can narrow down the November and December 2021 authors. Otherwise I choose at random. :)

16kac522
Editado: Ago 3, 2021, 9:13 pm

I'll add my voice to Edith Wharton--just to have a female in the running.

17AnnieMod
Ago 9, 2021, 6:46 pm

Oops - I thought I posted

Votes for Nevil Shute and George Orwell.

18sweetiegherkin
Ago 18, 2021, 9:13 am

Wow, so apparently I voted for Evelyn Waugh twice. Also, I mistakenly said it was a 3-way tie between Fitzgerald, Orwell, and Shute. It was actually a 3-way tie between Edith Wharton, George Orwell, and Neil Shute ... with the new votes, that's still true. So I am just going to make these our authors for the next four months.

October -- Evelyn Waugh
November -- George Orwell
December -- Edith Wharton
January -- Neil Shute

New topics for these to be posted soon.

19AnnieMod
Editado: Nov 15, 2021, 2:22 pm

Our admin is missing again so I am posting the November and December threads:
November: https://www.librarything.com/topic/336761
December: https://www.librarything.com/topic/336762

I will post the January one in a couple of weeks if sweetiegherkin is still missing.

20AnnieMod
Nov 30, 2021, 2:23 pm