Mod post: theme suggestions
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readingthepastPlease suggest themes you'd like to see covered here! Cut and paste the following into a comment:
ETA: please put your theme in the subject of your comment!
Theme:
Are you prepared to run it? Yes/No
Suggested books, if you have them already:
What does it mean to run the theme?
1. At least one month in advance, you'll let everyone know about the theme and your suggested reading for it. You need to suggest at least 3 works of fiction.
2. On the first of the month, you will post a welcome/introduction/kickoff for the theme.
3. Throughout the month, you'll take an active part in discussion of the theme.
You do not have to be an expert on the theme to run it. You just need to have an interest in it.
ETA: please put your theme in the subject of your comment!
Theme:
Are you prepared to run it? Yes/No
Suggested books, if you have them already:
What does it mean to run the theme?
1. At least one month in advance, you'll let everyone know about the theme and your suggested reading for it. You need to suggest at least 3 works of fiction.
2. On the first of the month, you will post a welcome/introduction/kickoff for the theme.
3. Throughout the month, you'll take an active part in discussion of the theme.
You do not have to be an expert on the theme to run it. You just need to have an interest in it.
Plagues and pandemics
Date: 2009-05-31 04:24 am (UTC)Prepared to run it: guess so
Suggested books:
Geraldine Brooks, "Year of Wonder"
Connie Willis, "Doomsday Book"
Re: Plagues and pandemics
Date: 2009-05-31 03:56 pm (UTC)Re: Plagues and pandemics
Date: 2009-05-31 05:55 pm (UTC)Re: Plagues and pandemics
Date: 2009-05-31 04:14 pm (UTC)The Midnight Queen, May Agnes Fleming. Gutenberg text, late 19th-century Gothic about London's Great Plague.
Re: Plagues and pandemics
Date: 2009-05-31 05:55 pm (UTC)Re: Plagues and pandemics
Date: 2009-06-01 04:19 pm (UTC)Re: Plagues and pandemics
Date: 2009-06-01 06:02 pm (UTC)A journal of the plague year is on Gutenberg.
The plague tales and The physician's tale (both by Ann Benson) are twinned narratives like Doomsday book, near-future/Black Plague timelines, though they don't AFAIK involve time travel.
Unsurprisingly, both the YA and SF genres are full of pandemic apocafic, so this category could be both broad and deep.
Re: Plagues and pandemics
Date: 2009-06-01 07:55 pm (UTC)Re: Plagues and pandemics
Date: 2009-06-01 08:05 pm (UTC)Re: Plagues and pandemics
Date: 2009-06-02 06:11 am (UTC)Re: Plagues and pandemics
Date: 2009-06-03 12:09 am (UTC)M. T. Anderson's Octavian Nothing book I (subtitle: The Pox Party) is, needless to say, partly about the Pox (also in Revolutionary War USA).
I swear people not named Anderson also write novels about diseases too.