sirg1006
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 Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 6:43 pm Post subject: 4th Choice! (2nd for Sept/Oct) *CLOSED* The Color Purple |
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This month we will have two books on the go to be read. You can read the winner of this one, the winner of the other one ( http://onlinebookclub.myfreeforum.org/ftopic88.php) or read them both! It is completely up to you.
I've added number of pages and Amazon UK price because these can be factors in deciding for some.
If you chose a book, please don't mention which one - fairer if it is kept a secret. These are all quite different so if there is one you like the sound of and you'd like to read, please vote for it!
The poll will end on Sunday 17th September so get voting!
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1. 
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee £5.20, 309 pages
Scout, the keen-eyed narrator, and her brother Jem interrupt their games to champion their lawyer father when, in a hostile, racist town in the American South, he battles to defend Tom, who is black and accused of murder.
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The Color Purple by Alice Walker £5.59, 240 pages
"Dear God: I am fourteen years old. I have always been a good girl. Maybe you can give me a sign letting me know what is happening to me."
So begins Alice Walker's poignant novel set in the deep American south between the wars. Celie has been raped by the man she calls her father; her two children have been taken away from her; she has been parted from her sister and forced into an ugly marriage. Then she meets Shug Avery, singer and magic maker, and Celie discovers not the pain of female rivalry but the love and support of women.
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Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things by Jon McGregor £3.50, 288 pages
On a street in a unnamed town in the North of England, perfectly ordinary people are doing totally ordinary things - street cricket, barbecues, painting windows... But then a terrible event shatters the quiet of the early summer evening and no one who witnesses it will be quite the same again. Jon McGregor's first novel brilliantly evokes the histories and lives of the people in the street to build up an unforgettable human panorama. Breathtakingly original, humane and moving, If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things is a remarkable debut.
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The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad £6.39, 288 pages
Two weeks after September 11th, award-winning journalist Asne Seierstad went to Afghanistan to report on the conflict. In the following spring she returned to live with a bookseller and his family for several months. The Bookseller of Kabul is the fascinating account of her time spent living with the family of thirteen in their four-roomed home. Bookseller Sultan Khan defied the authorities for twenty years to supply books to the people of Kabul. He was arrested, interrogated and imprisoned by the communists and watched illiterate Taliban soldiers burn piles of his books in the street. He even resorted to hiding most of his stock in attics all over Kabul. But while Khan is passionate in his love of books and hatred of censorship, he is also a committed Muslim with strict views on family life. As an outsider, Seierstad is able to move between the private world of the women - including Khan's two wives - and the more public lives of the men. The result is an intimate and fascinating portrait of a family which also offers a unique perspective on a troubled country.
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Year Of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks £6.39, 320 pages
Spring 1666: when the Great Plague reaches the quiet Derbyshire village of Eyam, the villagers turn to sorcery, herb lore, and witch-hunting. Then, led by a young and charismatic preacher, they elect to isolate themselves in a fatal quarantine. So begins the Year of Wonders, seen through 18-year-old Anna Frith's eyes as she confronts the loss of her family, the disintegration of community, and the lure of an illicit love. Based on a true story, this novel explores love and learning, fear and fanatacism, and the struggles of the 17th-century science and religion to interpret the world at the cusp of the modern era.
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