August 2012 Steepster Book Club
Good morning!
A number of you said on the other thread that you would be interested in a Steepster book club! :)
I wish it was possible for us to do something like www.thegoldennotebook.com, but I don’t think that would work with a novel unless it was in public domain and we could copy and paste…
Anyway, moving forward. If you have a book you would like to nominate, please do so on this thread! Maybe in a week we will vote on nominations to give everyone a chance to purchase the book and start reading it?
Suggestions can be tea related or not, whatever suits your fancy! I still have to go and think of which book I want to nominate… hmmmm!
Looking forward to hearing your nominations! :)
I’m going to transfer over our first nomination from the other thread: These Days
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jackcheng/these-days-a-novel
(This hits home with me because I dated a guy who didn’t text once and I thought he was the strangest person I had ever met for CHOOSING to not be a part of technology!)
All the great classics (well from 1923 and earlier) are in the public domain. I’d certainly be up for reading a classic.
But, I’ll be interested to see the nominations before I chime in.
Thanks for takin the initiative to get this going again!
Take a look at www.thegoldennotebook.com and let me know what you think. I just discovered it from my summer school teaching class and am interested in participating in something similar via google docs….
Madeline I LOVE this idea – now if we want to do a classic I’ll provide the copies for everyone (since they’re cheap, we will all have the same translation/edition) to work from.
Take a look at Dover’s Thrift Editions in fiction and let me know if any look good to you? http://store.doverpublications.com/by-subject-literature-dover-thrift-editions-fiction.html
Just a thought.
Well we could just all download the copy if we’re going to do it via google docs online?
Hmm…I’ll have to think about a nomination more. But I definitely want to be a part of this!
How about The Portrait of Dorian Gray? It is a great read and also a classic. Or, we could always do Sherlock Holmes, which I adore and is also public domain! :)
I’d be up for almost anything but I’ve been considering reading The Portrait of Dorian Gray lately.
Our 2nd choice would be, do we want to read on our own and Just discuss on a thread here, or paste a digital copy to Google docs and copy www.thegoldennotebook.com? They left comments to each other in the actual text, so as you got to a spot, you could see who had already read there and what they thought…..
I would give the golden notebook website a try. What does everyone else think? So when are we supposed to decide which book we are going to read?
If you’re considering public domain work,
The Book of Tea
The Scarlet Pimpernel
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (“children’s book”, I know, but I enjoy the whole series—original fourteen, at least)
The Picture of Dorian Grey is a classic
H. G. Wells anyone?
I’d suggest any from the Horatio Hornblower series, but those won’t be public domain for another five years.
Or some of my favourite recent/not public domain works:
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell (or her more recent book of shorts, as JS&MN may be too long for some)
Good Omens
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