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readingthepast2009-05-30 03:59 pm
damned_colonial) wrote in readingthepast2009-05-30 03:59 pm
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.
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.
Gold Rushes
Prepared to run it: sure
Suggested books: don't know any yet, but could find some
I think it would be interesting to cover eg. the California, Victorian, and Yukon gold rushes, if we can manage it.
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Also there are probably California 'local' authors who have done terrific work with their state's gold rush, if one goes looking.
California is a fabulous subject about which I know far less than many a location not in the United States.
Love, C.
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A good suggestion is Isabel Allende's "Daughter of Fortune" about a Chilean woman in the Californian gold rush. Bret Harte's "The Luck of Roaring Camp" would be a good Gutenbergable one.
An Australian classic, and Gutenbergable: Rolf Boldrewood, Robbery Under Arms: A Story of Life and Adventure in the Bush and in the Goldfields of Australia (1882), about a man who joined a gang of bushrangers and preyed on miners during the gold rush of the 1850s.
Another Australian perspective: Nerida Newton, The Lambing Flat, about a young Chinese immigrant caught up in the nineteenth century Australian gold rush and a young woman on a Queensland cattle station who come to care for each other after he loses his father in the Lambing Flat riots
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