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Convenience Store Woman | 9 | 26.47% | |
The Fire Is Upon Us | 3 | 8.82% | |
The Satanic Verses | 10 | 29.41% | |
All Tomorrows | 6 | 17.65% | |
Against Nature | 6 | 17.65% | |
Total: | 18 votes |
Help us pick the September 2022 Book of the Month! Vote for as many options as you think you might read. If you have another suggestion, list it in a comment with a note explaining why it's a better pick. If you do vote, please consider participating and reading along. Poll will stay up for five days. 1) Convenience Store Woman by Sakaya Murata quote:Convenience Store Woman (Japanese: コンビニ人間, Hepburn: Konbini Ningen) is a 2016 novel by Japanese writer Sayaka Murata. It captures the atmosphere of the familiar convenience store that is so much part of life in Japan. The novel won the Akutagawa Prize in 2016.[4] Aside from working as a writer, Murata worked at a convenience store three times a week, basing her novel on her experiences. It was first published in the June 2016 issue of Bungakukai.[5] It was published as a book in July 2016 by Bungeishunjū. quote:Keiko Furukura is a 36-year old woman who has been working part-time at a convenience store, or konbini, for the last 18 years. She has known since childhood that she is "different" and that expressing her own views and actions is inexplicable and distressing to others, and causes problems. 2) The Fire Is Upon Us quote:On February 18, 1965, an overflowing crowd packed the Cambridge Union in Cambridge, England, to witness a historic televised debate between James Baldwin, the leading literary voice of the civil rights movement, and William F. Buckley Jr., a fierce critic of the movement and America's most influential conservative intellectual. The topic was "the American dream is at the expense of the American Negro," and no one who has seen the debate can soon forget it. Nicholas Buccola's The Fire Is upon Us is the first book to tell the full story of the event, the radically different paths that led Baldwin and Buckley to it, and how the debate and the decades-long clash between the men illuminates the racial divide that continues to haunt America today. 3) The Satanic Verses quote:The Satanic Verses is the fourth novel of American-British-Indian writer Salman Rushdie. First published in September 1988, the book was inspired by the life of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. As with his previous books, Rushdie used magical realism and relied on contemporary events and people to create his characters. The title refers to the Satanic Verses, a group of Quranic verses about three pagan Meccan goddesses: Allāt, Al-Uzza, and Manāt.[1] The part of the story that deals with the "satanic verses" was based on accounts from the historians al-Waqidi and al-Tabari.[1] 4) All Tomorrows quote:All Tomorrows: A Billion Year Chronicle of the Myriad Species and Mixed Fortunes of Man is a 2006 work of science fiction and speculative evolution written and illustrated by the Turkish artist C. M. Kosemen under the pen name Nemo Ramjet. It explores a hypothetical future path of human evolution set from the near future to a billion years from the present. Several future human species evolve through natural means and through genetic engineering, conducted by both humans themselves and by a mysterious and superior alien species called the Qu. 5) Against Nature quote:À rebours (French pronunciation: [a ʁ(ə).buʁ]; translated Against Nature or Against the Grain) is an 1884 novel by the French writer Joris-Karl Huysmans. The narrative centers on a single character: Jean des Esseintes, an eccentric, reclusive, ailing aesthete. The last scion of an aristocratic family, Des Esseintes loathes nineteenth-century bourgeois society and tries to retreat into an ideal artistic world of his own creation. The narrative is almost entirely a catalogue of the neurotic Des Esseintes's aesthetic tastes, musings on literature, painting, and religion, and hyperaesthesic sensory experiences.
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# ? Aug 28, 2022 20:43 |
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# ? Jun 5, 2024 07:14 |
sorry for delay, it'll be satanic verses. I ll get a thread up tomorrow.
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# ? Sep 5, 2022 03:30 |
I haven't gotten a thread up yet because of https://images.app.goo.gl/bXKKXvb2U5nk5i1k6 Sorry all
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# ? Sep 8, 2022 17:12 |
Hieronymous Alloy posted:I haven't gotten a thread up yet because of You need to stop getting distracted by pictures of naked women. Also, please tag as not worksafe. Yeesh, where’s a mod when you need one
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# ? Sep 9, 2022 20:42 |
I've failed to get a thread up this month and I've got too much upcoming to get it done soon. We can just use this thread for any discussion or someone else can put up a thread for it if they want.
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# ? Sep 18, 2022 20:15 |
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I want to read this but I'm sitting at #43 in line for one of the library's 34 copies. I started at over 60 when the poll went up so there's hope.
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# ? Sep 19, 2022 15:47 |
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I'm gonna read Convenience Store Woman I think.
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# ? Sep 20, 2022 03:01 |
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What's the next botm?
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# ? Sep 27, 2022 19:08 |
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# ? Jun 5, 2024 07:14 |
Actually this is as good a place as any to ask. I'm thinking about restructuring the BOTM as a single ongoing thread at this point, maybe more a "book club" than a "book of the month" club. . What do people think of / want from the botm going forward? Should we be re-organizing it ? Thoughts preferences suggestions?
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# ? Sep 28, 2022 16:26 |