Reading the 20th Century discussion

Good point, Alwynne. I avoid those discussions online too.

Yes, thanks Tania for the BL edition of Pin. I've also got a number of books in the poll that I'm keen to read and discuss.

Seeing as we're now on page two, I'll take this opportunity to remind that it's now time to vote/change your vote....


https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/2...



NOMINATIONS

Hanns and Rudolf: The True Story of the German Jew Who Tracked Down and Caught the Kommandant of Auschwitz by Thomas Harding (Nigeyb)
A Pin To See The Peepshow by F. Tennyson Jesse (Tania)
The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer by Kate Summerscale (Rosina)
Nuremberg: A personal record of the trial of the major Nazi war criminals by Airey Neave (Susan)
Adirondack Tragedy: The Gillette Murder Case of 1906 by Joseph W. Brownell (Jan)
If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin (Kathleen)
Striking Back: The 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre and Israel's Deadly Response by Aaron J. Klein (Roman Clodia)

Pin to See the Peepshow is a trifle expensive here in US - ranging from $12.50 to $99.

Jan C wrote: "Pin to See the Peepshow is a trifle expensive here in US - ranging from $12.50 to $99."

See the previous page Jan. It's the same situation in the UK but apparently there's a new edition due out in mid November with, we hope, a cheap Kindle version

Hopefully the same applies in the US. It's not easy to find the new edition on Amazon UK. Tania offers some advice...

Search for "British library women writers" and it might be listed

The other titles in the series are showing up on US Amazon as available for Kindle, and all for Kindle Unltd or an average of 4 dollars to buy. The F. Tennyson Jesse isn't listed yet but seems no reason to suppose it won't be added soon, it's listed on UK Amazon just poorly cross referenced. And the Open Library version Kit mentioned should be available there, it's an offshoot of Archive.org which is an American site.

I'm sorry, I didn't consuder the US market, I think these books come out later there; however, US friends who couldn't wait have been ordering them from Blackwells who have free shipping, and it is also available free on Internet Archive.

I hadn't either Tania, when I bought my Virago copy it was really cheap but they seem to have massively increased in price recently. I suppose people reading about the new edition and wanting to get hold of it in advance? It also got a good write-up in Paris Review not long ago:
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2...

I love Blackwells. Depending on publisher many titles are released in the UK months before they are published and released in US, or sometime I like the UK cover better. For some of my favorite indie press books I can still buy the book new, so publisher and author profit, but no shipping costs.

I use Blackwells a lot too, but funny about UK covers, I often replace UK copies of favourite books with US ones because the paper tends to be better quality!

Alwynne wrote: "I use Blackwells a lot too, but funny about UK covers, I often replace UK copies of favourite books with US ones because the paper tends to be better quality!"

The paper and the binding are reasons I often order US editions.

I was just going to say Ang pointed that out before, I usually order UK books because I want them sooner, and sometimes for the cover. I want the Hamish-Hamilton covers of Ali Smith’s next book, so it matches the seasonal quartet .

It's tight at the top....


If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin - 7 votes, 38.9%

A Pin To See The Peepshow by F. Tennyson Jesse - 6 votes, 33.3%

The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer by Kate Summerscale - 3 votes, 16.7%

Hanns and Rudolf: The True Story of the German Jew Who Tracked Down and Caught the Kommandant of Auschwitz by Thomas Harding - 1 vote, 5.6%

Striking Back: The 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre and Israel's Deadly Response by Aaron J. Klein - 1 vote, 5.6%

Nuremberg: A personal record of the trial of the major Nazi war criminals by Airey Neave - 0 votes

Adirondack Tragedy: The Gillette Murder Case of 1906 by Joseph W. Brownell - 0 votes



Vote/change your vote....

https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/2...



NOMINATIONS

Hanns and Rudolf: The True Story of the German Jew Who Tracked Down and Caught the Kommandant of Auschwitz by Thomas Harding (Nigeyb)
A Pin To See The Peepshow by F. Tennyson Jesse (Tania)
The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer by Kate Summerscale (Rosina)
Nuremberg: A personal record of the trial of the major Nazi war criminals by Airey Neave (Susan)
Adirondack Tragedy: The Gillette Murder Case of 1906 by Joseph W. Brownell (Jan)
If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin (Kathleen)
Striking Back: The 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre and Israel's Deadly Response by Aaron J. Klein (Roman Clodia)

We have a winner....


If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin

Thanks to everyone who got involved

Looking forward to it, this has been a book I've been meaning to read for a long time.

And thanks Nigeyb for organising the poll, results and admin with your usual efficiency!

Yes, thank you Nigeyb, and looking forward to starting the year off with James Baldwin.

Thanks for the thanks


It's will be good to kick 2022 off with such a celebrated author

Sadly, although my library has some of his books, this isn't one of them. I've been meaning to try him though, so I'll try to get to him sooner rather than later.