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FEBRUARY BOOK OF THE MONTH - see the selection and cast your vote here

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Its a Mumsnetters Own month this time. We came across this inspiring thread and found a brilliant selection of recommended classics, books that other mums would take to their Desert Island if they were ever lucky enough to have such an escape.

So we've taken the cream of the list (focusing on the ones that were written at least 40 years ago, the ones you always meant to read but never quite got round to it) and now there's 10 titles for you to choose from. Will it be Dickens or Flaubert? Bronte or Mitford? Browse the list and cast your vote here ...and let the battle of the classics commence...

(Just a reminder, polls will close on Friday February 1st at 8pm.)
Dual Cylinder Cod, am sad that you don't like Feb book - do you have any suggestions for Unsung Heros (which is going to be April's theme)? Am looking for writers that are brilliant but relatively unknown/not as widely read as they should be.

Put your favourite best kept secret here and we'll add it to April's selection...
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Sat 09-Feb-08 09:43:15
Number 2, have very active 2year old, we also run a B&B so not much hope of putting feet up to rest, oh well.
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Fri 08-Feb-08 11:41:09
I DONT LIEK THIS MONTHS
Mine is May 6th which happens to be my first son's birthday. Not the present he's expecting, methinks.

I suddenly have gone spacehopper, and feeling a bit knackered. How are you feeling? is this your first?
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Wed 06-Feb-08 13:59:32
Spounds good to me, when is your bump due mine is in June
Yes, Middlemarch is going to have to feature somehow - I'm still feeling highly guilty that I've never read it.

Devil, is Lawrence Norfolk the guy who wrote Alexandria Quartet? And I've never read T.C Boyle, would like to give him a try (it is a him isn't it - never quite sure with initials)

Threadworm, sorry you missed your chance to vote, hope you'll join us this month for Mockingbird discussion anyway?

Just to give everyone the dates for March Book of the Month - I'll put up the selection page on Tuesday 19th Feb and voting will start that evening. Polls will close the following Friday 29th Feb. And we'll discuss our winner on Tuesday 25th March.

I'm thinking of Memoirs in March, and then do some more classics, but less well known ones, in April. How does that sound?
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Tue 05-Feb-08 15:19:53
Thanks! Didn't think of that -- Dur!

Middlemarch for March then!
I think the poll has closed because To Kill a Mockingbird won. Keep an eye out for the next poll for March's book of the month!
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Tue 05-Feb-08 15:17:01
I'm being dumb: I can't see how to vote from the link in the OP. It just takes you to results. Can anyone help a stupid person?
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Tue 05-Feb-08 15:09:13
Sorry Tilly my above posts weren't intended to be nearly as mean spirited as they came across.
I think I'll leave it out this month, but hopefully join you in March.

I have countless suggestions. T.C Boyle, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Phillip Roth, Lawrence Norfolk to name a few.
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