Some of you may remember that The Big Read was originally inspired by defective yeti's NaNoReMo idea.
So I'm thinking that November would be the perfect time* to do another Big Read.
But, as A Tale of Two Cities came very close to destroying me emotionally, I think we need a less heartbreaking story**. I've been wanting to re-read Ivanhoe. Got any other suggestions?
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*Whaddaya mean, it'll conflict with my Cybils reading***? You think I can't read more than one book at a time?
**Then again, heartbreaking makes for good reading.
***You're working on your list of nominations, right?
I've always wanted to read Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers. I love me some spy novels and I've seen this on a couple of those Best Books of All Time lists. Or how about Peyton Place for some nostalgic scandal value?
Posted by: Elizabeth | 29 September 2008 at 10:32 AM
Once February comes, I'm in!
Posted by: Liz B | 29 September 2008 at 11:23 AM
How about the first Gormenghast book? I've been trying to read it for a couple months, but it's so goddamn heavy (literally--I've got that paperback 3-in-one and it must weigh 7 or 8 pounds) I keep putting it down, and then when I pick it up again I've forgotten who everyone is. And I really like it (or the 40 pages I've read 6 times now).
Posted by: cc | 29 September 2008 at 12:41 PM
Ooo, yeah. I'd love to read that one -- I've been meaning to for so long. And I still haven't read Armadale. Or Jamaica Inn.
Posted by: Leila | 29 September 2008 at 01:17 PM
Ooo, good idea. I've been wanting to read that FOREVER.
Also, I've never read Armadale. Or Jamaica Inn.
Posted by: Leila | 29 September 2008 at 01:19 PM
Ooh, I vote for Jamaica Inn! That's the one with wreckers, right? I meant to read it before I went to Cornwall in August but didn't have time. And one day was just too cold to surf, so I dragged my husband to the Jamaica Inn, anyway. It was cool, but they make a very weak gin & tonic. :(
Posted by: Elizabeth | 29 September 2008 at 02:32 PM
No Ivanhoe. Yet. Although I did just tour the Rosenbach Museum & Library the other day, which has a lovely portrait of Rebecca Gratz, who was the inspiration for Rebecca in Ivanhoe.
Posted by: Kelly Fineman | 29 September 2008 at 02:47 PM
I recently finished Gentlemen and Players by Joanne Harris...that's a school based literary mystery that I think you'd like!
Posted by: beth | 30 September 2008 at 10:49 AM
Since you're thinking Ivanhoe, re-read Betsy in Spite of Herself (by Maud Hart Lovelace) first.
Posted by: Laurie | 01 October 2008 at 08:47 AM