Bookclub Nominations Thread

!bookworms, as you know we are supposed to have our final discussion of Master and Margarita on Sunday, so it’s time to select our next book.

Nominate your choices or upmarsey the one’s you find interesting. Tomorrow at 19:00 E.T. I’ll pick the five most upmarseyd ones and place them on a voting thread.

I understand many will not finish Master and Margarita by this Sunday, so I’ll wait a couple of weeks before beginning with the next book threads, and reduce the number of weekly pages from 100 to 70.

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MayflyAlt-98 Your/Grace Self-taught hypebeast 1yr ago #4632199

Stoner By John Willaims is haunting to me with how it explores loneliness and the inner strength needed to persevere through it. Very personal to me.

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PatriceOneal e/acc We went to a musical called "Oh Africa, Brave Africa". It was a laugh riot. MayflyAlt-98 1yr ago #4632288

William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar’s life, so different from the hardscrabble existence he has known. And yet as the years pass, Stoner encounters a succession of disappointments: marriage into a “proper” family estranges him from his parents; his career is stymied; his wife and daughter turn coldly away from him; a transforming experience of new love ends under threat of scandal. Driven ever deeper within himself, Stoner rediscovers the stoic silence of his forebears and confronts an essential solitude.

John Williams’s luminous and deeply moving novel is a work of quiet perfection. William Stoner emerges from it not only as an archetypal American, but as an unlikely existential hero, standing, like a figure in a painting by Edward Hopper, in stark relief against an unforgiving world

Sounds good!