The Nix - February CC Book Club Selection

[Caraid]

Sounds good! Thanks, @Mary13 .

[mathmom]

The Merchant and Ivory movie is great too.

[jollymama]

I’ve not yet read the book, but I agree with @mathmom about the movie. Dreamy!

[Mary13]

Thanks everyone! I’ll start a new thread.

Out of curiosity, I went back and checked our prior years. Looks like we generally choose one classic a year, without really planning it that way.

2010: The Moonstone
2011: The Secret Garden
2012: Jane Eyre and also The Bridge of San Luis Rey
2013: The War of the Worlds
2014: The Hound of the Baskervilles
2015: Far from the Madding Crowd
2016: East of Eden
2017: The Stranger
2018: Pride and Prejudice

There are a few other books we read that I could have included above — Things Fall Apart, Wide Sargasso Sea — but the category is sort of fluid and I wasn’t sure where to draw the line. When does a book become a classic?

[CBBBlinker]

Haven’t read “A Room With A View,” so I’m in. Thanks @Mary13!!

[SouthJerseyChessMom]

Thinking of you, @HImom , after reading @Mary13 link - 538 review of titles with “girl” in them,
Apparently. The trend has a pattern

A number of patterns emerged in our analysis: The “girl” in the title is much more likely to be a woman than an actual girl, and the author of the book is more likely to be a woman. But if a book with “girl” in the title was written by a man, the girl is significantly more likely to end up dead.

Why are there so many of these books? Well, because publishing is an industry ruled by mystery and chance. If anyone knew the magic formula by which a book sells a million copies, they’d all sell a million copies.

It’s important to note what the data does and does not show. It wouldn’t be fair to extrapolate from this that women and girls are more likely to be dead or missing across all books written by men; only that they’re more likely to be dead or missing in books by men with “girl” in the title.

[annabella]

@Ignatius, your review was spot on for me. I didn’t understand why I was reading pages upon pages of Pwnage and Elfscape but knew very little about Henry, Samuel’s father. He made only brief appearances in the novel yet I would imagine he was a big influence on Sam. For someone who raised the main character alone from an early age, I thought he deserved a little more page time than Elfscape, Laura, and Walter Cronkite among many others.

[VeryHappy]

Welcome to the Club, and to CC, @annabella!

[psychmom]

Great choice, Mary - I am ready to shake off some present day cynicism and go back in time to English drama and romance.

Thank you, everyone, for another great discussion! See you April 1st

[Mary13]

get ready to bookmark: http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parent-cafe/2126197-a-room-with-a-view-april-cc-book-club-selection.html#latest

free with Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2641

[VeryHappy]

Mary: How do I get it from the Project Gutenberg website to my Kindle??

ETA: I found it on Amazon for $0.45! That works for me.

[Midwest67]

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[Mary13]

^ @Midwest67, secret code? Or pirate’s treasure? :ar!

For future reference re Project Gutenberg: “You can download our free kindle books directly to your Kindle by pointing your Kindle browser to m.gutenberg.org. Or you can download them to your PC and then transfer them to the Kindle via USB cable.”

I chose the first option. On the Kindle home screen, under the drop-down below the three vertical dots, is the “Experimental Browser.” Select that and type m.gutenberg.org into the browser, and it will take you to their site. Once there, type the name of the book into the search box. The title will show up beneath the box. Click on it and then download the Kindle version. The Kindle browser is a joke, but it works fine for this particular maneuver.