Mod post: theme suggestions

[damned_colonial]

Please 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.

Comments

Re: Women At War, WWI

[damned_colonial]

Lyn Andrews, Angels of Mercy, about two pretty young British women, twins, who join the Voluntary Aid Detachment and go to work at the front

Antonia Arslan, Skylark Farm, about a family trying to survive during the 1915 Armenian genocide

Emma Blair, Forget-Me-Not, historical romance about an actress and a journalist who becomes a pilot in the RAF

Margaret Dickinson, Suffragette Girl (2009), about a suffragette who signs up to serve as a nurse when the First World War begins.

Helen Dunmore, Zennor in Darkness, a novel about D.H. Lawrence and his German-born wife and their Cornish neighbors’ suspicion of them during the war years

Robert Edric, In Desolate Heaven, about a woman in 1919 Switzerland who meets two ex-officers who served in World War I and are trying to escape their memories

Audrey Howard, Whispers On The Water, historical romance about a young British woman in love with a man whose spirit is broken in the Great War

Audrey Howard, As The Night Ends, historical romance about a British suffragette in love with a surgeon and separated from him, first by a quarrel and then by war

Audrey Howard, All The Dear Faces, historical romance about two young women, one from a large Irish family and the other from an aristocratic family in Liverpool during the years before and during the First World War

Ami McKay, The Birth House, about a young midwife in Nova Scotia during the war years

Deborah Moggach, In the Dark, about the war's effect on the lives of ordinary Londoners

Michelle Paver, The Serpent’s Tooth, about a woman living with a tragic secret and her search for emotional peace during World War I

Piers Paul Read, Alice in Exile, about a free-thinking daughter of a radical publisher, rejected by her aristocratic lover when she becomes pregnant, who accepts a position as governess to a Russian family during the years of World War I and the Russian Revolution

Jody Shields, The Crimson Portrait, about doctors and nurses caring for men whose faces were destroyed in the war

Richard Skinner, The Red Dancer: The Life and Times of Mata Hari, about the Dutch woman who reinvented herself as an exotic dancer in Paris and was believed to be a spy for the Germans during World War I

Wilbur Smith, The Burning Shore, about a Frenchwoman’s struggles during World War I and her effort to make a new life for herself in South Africa

Thomas J. Fleming, Over There, a woman who is a feminist and former pacifist works goes to France to work as a nurse on the front lines

Nicole Helget, The Turtle Catcher (2009), about the only daughter in a German immigrant family growing up in rural Minnesota during World War I with the secret knowledge that her body is not like that of other girls.

Frances Itani, Deafening, about a deaf Canadian girl, from her childhood through her romance with a man who enlists to fight in the war

Michael Lowenthal, Charity Girl (2007), about a young Boston woman imprisoned for having a “social disease” during the war.

... all taken from http://www.historicalnovels.info/World-War-I.html ... I suspect that site may end up being a core resource for this community!

Re: Women At War, WWI

[wychwood]

Wow, that's an impressive list! Should keep us going for a bit...