The theme for September is summer vacation. It turns out that the vacation is mine and not yours. I'm taking a vacation from curating our choices, and I'm leaving it up to members. Here's how we'll have members give me choices from which to create this month's ballot.
Thanks for your help.
- The period for nominations opens when the email is sent out
- There is nothing mandatory about participation - I will put no more than 8 books on the ballot for this month. I
- Use blog comments below to nominate one in-print non-fict
ion title. You may also email me your nomination and I can post it for you. You will be identified by your first name and the initial letter of your last name. - To nominate a book, you should have attended the non-fiction book club at least once in the last year (strictly honor system)
- The first nomination received is guaranteed a spot on the ballot (nominations from my immediate family or {pages} employees/owners are welcome but not eligible for this guaranteed spot)
- If you like someone else's choice you may second it instead of nominating
- Seconded books are guaranteed a spot on the ballot
- You may withdraw your nomination if you later decide to second someone else's book instead (making my job that much easier)
- If I have to cull the list, it will be to balance the list or to favor people who have attended the club fairly regularly. In the two years we've been doing this, I've been able to put every nominated book on the list.
- Nominations close Friday night August 9 at midnight. I'll try and get a ballot out sometime Saturday.
Ginger W. emails: The book is The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World by Andrea Wulf. This book has an unusual companion bonus feature: a 2019 beautifully illustrated version of this book called the Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt. It makes a great combination.
ReplyDeleteSea People. Any book about Polynesia is a vacation beach read.
ReplyDeleteSounds Like Titanic: a fantastic memoir that explores music and authenticity, and that I will put together a playlist for.
ReplyDeleteBob H. has seconded The Invention of Nature
ReplyDeleteWell, I am abandoning my previously decided entry to submit something about exploration, in the spirit of the adventurous souls we have been reading about recently. What has man endeavored to conquer? Certainly the seas, the stars, the outermost extremes of our earthly confines.
ReplyDeleteI hope this is new-ish enough to pique interest:
"To the Edges of the Earth: 1909, the Race for the Three Poles, and the Climax of the Age of Exploration" by Edward J. Larson (352 pages, published 3/13/18).
I thought about "Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe" but it's a bit older, published in 2003.
This list of similar books looks quite captivating...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/similar/168419-over-the-edge-of-the-world-magellan-s-terrifying-circumnavigation-of-th
Thanks Liz V. for the nomination
DeleteIn light of this past week, I recommend Eli Saslow’s Rising Out of Hatred “which tells the story of how white-supremacist ideas migrated from the far-right fringe to the White House through the intensely personal saga of one man who eventually disavowed everything he was taught to believe, at tremendous personal cost. With great empathy and narrative verve, Eli Saslow asks what Derek's story can tell us about America's increasingly divided nature. This is a book to help us understand the American moment and to help us better understand one another.”
ReplyDeleteJeanne C. nominates Life by Keith Richards. Listed by New York times as one of the top 50 memoirs of the past fifty years.
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