It is the most wonderful time of year - CBBC time!
Previous CBBC books were:
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn
My Brilliant Friend
I Capture the Castle
The Blue Castle
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn
My Brilliant Friend
I Capture the Castle
The Blue Castle
According to my non-existent editorial calendar, we're doing another round of Cool Bloggers Book Club (CBBC) next month! I have winnowed down the book selection to three books and now you, my friends, are going to vote on what you think is the best option. These have all been suggested to me by readers in the past and I'm happy for additional suggestions to keep adding to my list of potential books for CBBC.
You do not have to be cool or a blogger to participate, although I'd argue you're cool just by being here.
My criteria for adding a book to the vote is that it is written by a woman, someone has expressed interest in reading it for this purpose, and I want to read it. I have a list of books people have recommended to me, so if you have a request for future books, please don't hesitate to put it in the comments or drop me an email.
Option #1
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Tam's debut novel, The Joy Luck Club, follows four Chinese immigrant families in San Francisco. It's divided up into four parts, each four chapters long, and that is enough to make my book club organizing heart go pitter patter. That's basically all I know about this book. (1989, 288 pages)
Option #2
I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman
Quiet little dystopian book originally written in the French. What does it mean to be human? How do we maintain the drive and human imperative to survive in the face of isolation and loneliness? Do we even need men? (Okay, fine, I added that last question.) (1995, 184 pages)
Option #3
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
So much punctuation in a book title! I have not read this book since I was a child, so I'd be interested in how this coming of age story holds up. (1970, 159 pages)
Those are the options. You can try to lobby fellow readers to your favorites in the comments, but your vote will be cast at this Google form. I am asking for you to rank order your choices from your most preferred to least preferred book. You do not actually need to be a blogger to participate in CBBC, but you should probably at least occasionally read this blog. I'll leave the form up until Wednesday, September 24 and then I'll tabulate the votes and post the schedule soon thereafter.
Oh yay!!! Thanks for leading another round!!!
ReplyDeleteThese are such great options! I have read all three and all are excellent. “I Who Have Never Known Men” is the one I would most like to discuss; “Joy Luck Club” is the one I read longest ago so would love to revisit.
(This is Suzanne.)
I currently have “I Who Have Never Known Men” on hold, so this seems like a sign. I read “The Joy Luck Club” in high school and loved it; it felt very “cool/adult” at the time to read a contemporary novel for English class. (This… might have just been me, haha…) And of course I read allll the Judy Blumes as an adolescent. Revisiting would be a lot of fun. (The recent movie version of “Are You There, God?” was great, incidentally!)
ReplyDeleteOmg Engie, I decided this week would be the Great Judy Blume Reread Week and I have Margaret with me RIGHT THIS SECOND. Also I used to have a joint blog with Allison and our friend Hannah, and I did all these recaps of Judy Blume books. For that reason, I am going to go with the other two - I have I Who Have Never Known Men on hold (but who knows WHEN it will come) and I love the Joy Luck Club. Hmm. Which will I vote for. Why do I always leave you such rambling stream of consciousness comments. How long is this comment going to be. When will I actually go to the google form. Etcetera.
ReplyDeleteComing back to say - because my comment was not long and rambling enough - that I love how you have a ranked system for this, rather than "my choice is x." THAT IS ALL I WILL GO NOW.
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