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Suggestions in this thread for genres for future monthly book selections please.
Restrain your enthusiasm to just one or two ideas per person please - but feel free to repeat/endorse other people's selections so that we have an idea of what will be popular.
I'll choose the first genre after this weekend and then the June timetable of suggestions/poll/reading will begin at the end of next week.
We can refer back to this thread for future genre choices.
For late arrivals at the Reading Group Ball, the details are here :
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Restrain your enthusiasm to just one or two ideas per person please - but feel free to repeat/endorse other people's selections so that we have an idea of what will be popular.
I'll choose the first genre after this weekend and then the June timetable of suggestions/poll/reading will begin at the end of next week.
We can refer back to this thread for future genre choices.
For late arrivals at the Reading Group Ball, the details are here :
http://
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One suggestion here would be "The Yiddish Policemen's Union"
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Detective novel which takes place in a world where the Jews were given a slice of Alaska instead of Israel, a short summary of the background from a Amazon review:
"The novel supposes that in 1940 the American Congress had passed the Sitka Settlement Act to allow the persecuted Jews of Europe to seek refuge, for an interim period of sixty years, in the newly created autonomous `federal district' of Sitka on Baranof Island, which my atlas tells me is a narrow sliver, about 100 miles long and 25 miles wide, in the south-eastern tail of Alaska. But it was a kind of ghetto: to appease the American public, the Act prohibited the refugees from moving off the island. A trickle of Jews, mainly from Germany and Poland, are supposed to have arrived there soon afterwards, to be joined after the war by a flood of Displaced Persons and other Jews who could not go to Israel, because that state is supposed to have been snuffed out by the Arabs after only three months. After the sixty years were up, Sitka was to `revert' to become part of Alaska and the Jews of Sitka were supposed to find somewhere else to go. By that time Sitka had a population of two million and had acquired a thoroughly Yiddish character, with Yiddish names for shops, districts and public buildings, Yiddish (secular) cops and Yiddish (religious) gangsters - all to the resentment of the original inhabitants of the area, the Tlingit Indian tribe. The book opens as the date of the `Reversion' draws near."
It's wonderfully funny :)
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Detective novel which takes place in a world where the Jews were given a slice of Alaska instead of Israel, a short summary of the background from a Amazon review:
"The novel supposes that in 1940 the American Congress had passed the Sitka Settlement Act to allow the persecuted Jews of Europe to seek refuge, for an interim period of sixty years, in the newly created autonomous `federal district' of Sitka on Baranof Island, which my atlas tells me is a narrow sliver, about 100 miles long and 25 miles wide, in the south-eastern tail of Alaska. But it was a kind of ghetto: to appease the American public, the Act prohibited the refugees from moving off the island. A trickle of Jews, mainly from Germany and Poland, are supposed to have arrived there soon afterwards, to be joined after the war by a flood of Displaced Persons and other Jews who could not go to Israel, because that state is supposed to have been snuffed out by the Arabs after only three months. After the sixty years were up, Sitka was to `revert' to become part of Alaska and the Jews of Sitka were supposed to find somewhere else to go. By that time Sitka had a population of two million and had acquired a thoroughly Yiddish character, with Yiddish names for shops, districts and public buildings, Yiddish (secular) cops and Yiddish (religious) gangsters - all to the resentment of the original inhabitants of the area, the Tlingit Indian tribe. The book opens as the date of the `Reversion' draws near."
It's wonderfully funny :)
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1p plus postage used condition... lots more copies at a penny left sounds like fun
If you fancy something else with Jewish humour the Dyke and the Dybbuk is good fun and an easy read
Dybbuk Kokos, a soul-stealing demon of Jewish folklore, is freed after 200 years trapped inside a tree. She seeks the descendant of the woman she was to haunt long ago--but finds the unexpected in Rainbow Rosenbloom.
By Ellen Galford and although it was written for a lesbian market it just about crosses over
If you fancy something else with Jewish humour the Dyke and the Dybbuk is good fun and an easy read
Dybbuk Kokos, a soul-stealing demon of Jewish folklore, is freed after 200 years trapped inside a tree. She seeks the descendant of the woman she was to haunt long ago--but finds the unexpected in Rainbow Rosenbloom.
By Ellen Galford and although it was written for a lesbian market it just about crosses over
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Sounds like a good book ed. As for genres I tend to judge books by their cover, title and author then if I'm interested read the first page and if I'm not hooked by end of first page I don't bother with it (awful I know!) so have read a fair-ish range of genres and don't have a particular preference of one or two. Maybe have a 'Books you're meant to read' genre, as in the ones if you say you haven't people respond with "What?? You've never read it??"
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