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damned_colonial ([personal profile] damned_colonial) wrote in [community profile] readingthepast2009-05-30 03:59 pm
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Mod post: theme suggestions

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.
wychwood: Trip: "Sigh... again with the gazelles" (Ent - gazelles)

Re: Industrial Revolution in Britain

[personal profile] wychwood 2009-06-01 08:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte, might be good for this, as well.
naraht: Moonrise over Earth (Default)

Re: Industrial Revolution in Britain

[personal profile] naraht 2009-06-01 09:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Indeed. Not to mention "Hard Times" by Dickens and a host of others. Sadly I am better with historic fiction than with historical fiction, if you see what I mean, and this community really inclines the other way...
wychwood: HMS Surprise: "bring me that horizon" (Fan - horizon)

Re: Industrial Revolution in Britain

[personal profile] wychwood 2009-06-01 10:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Haha, yes, I am having the same problem. As you probably noticed in my WWI suggestion!
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Re: Industrial Revolution in Britain

[personal profile] al_zorra 2009-06-02 05:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Mrs. Gaskell's North and South, which deeply influenced Bronte to write her Shirley. It's also on dvd.

Love, C.

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Re: Industrial Revolution in Britain

[personal profile] al_zorra 2009-06-02 07:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Eeeek! I apologize. I was reading frome the botton up.

Love, C.