I'd have been happy with any of the choices, but I am very excited about reading these stories -- I loved the Haunting of Hill House and I adore-with-a-capital-A-D-O-R-E-D We Have Always Lived in the Castle, and I remember reading "The Lottery" (of course) in high school, but I never have read the rest of the collection.
Also, I've been meaning all year to read more short stories. Nice that I'm finally getting around to it.
As always, this is the schedule I'm going to stick to. You all can do whatever your little hearts desire -- but if you want to follow this schedule, grab a copy soon! We're less than a week away from our start day.
And of course, if you blog about it, let me know so that I can link it all up. Oh, and it should be noted that Matthew Baldwin at Defective Yeti, the creator (as far as I know) of NaNoReMo, is gearing up for November as well. So if The Lottery isn't what you're looking for, there'll be another group read over there!
November 3: "The Intoxicated" and "The Daemon Lover"
November 4: "Like Mother Used to Make"
November 5: "Trial by Combat"
November 6: "The Villager"
November 7: "My Life with R. H. Macy"
November 10: "The Witch" and "The Renegade"
November 11: "After You, My Dear Alphonse"
November 12: "Charles"
November 13: "Afternoon in Linen"
November 14: "Flower Garden"
November 17: "Dorothy and My Grandmother and the Sailors" and "Colloquy"
November 18: "Elizabeth"
November 19: "A Fine Old Firm"
November 20: "The Dummy"
November 21: "Seven Types of Ambiguity"
November 24: "Come Dance With Me in Ireland" and "Of Course"
November 25: "Pillar of Salt"
November 26: "Men with Their Big Shoes"
November 27: "The Tooth"
November 28: "Got a Letter from Jimmy" and "The Lottery" and "Epilogue"
What is WITH the Lottery chick bazongas!?
I'm going to try and find this --- but no guarantees; the library has virtually NO old books that aren't Robbie Burns, and bookstores here even are kind of lame.
Posted by: TadMack | 29 October 2008 at 10:23 AM
Oooh, yay! Shirley Jackson is my favorite writer, and every time I pass Macy's I giggle thinking of "My Life with R.H. Macy." And "Of Course" is one of the creepiest things out there.
Posted by: Carlie | 29 October 2008 at 11:04 AM
You do know that Shirley Jackson was a teenage obsession of mine, right? And I own a copy of The Lottery, Adventures of the Daemon Lover, though not, thank God, with that cover. I am in, in, in!!
Posted by: Gail Gauthier | 29 October 2008 at 06:29 PM
I voted for this one, but I totally couldn't figure out what was going one with the cover until you posted the big version. I assume it is associated with Demon Lover.
My fifth grade teacher read us Charles and The Lottery. We even had a group discussion about The Lottery. I was obsessed with it, but I couldn't remember the author or title. When I was in high school a friend found a script in our English teacher's classroom and told me he thought I should read it. It was The Lottery. Now I have several of her books. I can't wait to read these again.
Posted by: Lady in a Smalltown | 29 October 2008 at 08:43 PM
I have no idea what that book cover is all about, but it's the complete opposite of what I remember "The Lottery" being like, so of course I love it. (And I haven't read "The Daemon Lover" yet, so I hadn't made the connection! Hopefully it'll all become clear on Monday...)
I love Shirley Jackson. And I'm so happy to be reading with you guys! While I do all of the my Cybils reading! And my book group stuff! And the Heyer! And the Ellen Emerson White series! And that Scott Westerfeld duo! And... and... just, yay yay yay!
Posted by: Leila | 30 October 2008 at 06:59 AM