Tomato Nation Read-Along #10: Poll
Submitted by Sarah D. Bunting on June 2, 2011 – 9:10 AM10 Comments
We’ve got true crime; we’ve got baseball; we’ve got reflections on true crime by my favorite baseball writer; we’ve got TV studies, memoirs, and an investigation of the fate of Pudding Pops by my colleague Gael Fashingbauer Cooper (who can join us for an author chat!).
Probably shooting for the end of June to give us all time to beach-read (or commute-read, heh/sigh) our selection; vote for three! Poll closes early next week!
Which book(s) would you read along with? (You can pick as many as 3.)
- Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops?: The Lost Toys, Tastes, and Trends of the '70s and '80s (Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, Brian Bellmont) / pop culture (29%, 194 Votes)
- The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon (David Grann) / history (16%, 105 Votes)
- Dear Angela: Remembering "My So-Called Life" (ed. Byers and Lavery) / cultural studies (13%, 87 Votes)
- Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys: True Tales of Love, Lust, and Friendship Between Straight Women and Gay Men (ed. de la Cruz and Dolby) / biography (11%, 76 Votes)
- Popular Crime: Reflections on the Celebration of Violence (Bill James) / true crime (7%, 49 Votes)
- And The Sea Will Tell (Vincent Bugliosi) / true crime (7%, 48 Votes)
- Survival in Auschwitz (Primo Levi) / autobiography (7%, 45 Votes)
- Circling My Mother (Mary Gordon) / memoir (5%, 34 Votes)
- When the Game Changed: An Oral History of Baseball's True Golden Age (George Castle) / baseball (4%, 29 Votes)
- The Tennis Partner (Abraham Verghese) / memoir (1%, 10 Votes)
Total Voters: 326
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Would love to see Spoiled by the Fug Girls on the list of choices for the next readalong!
The alternate subtitle of Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys? Freshman Year in the Theatre Department.
I’ve already read Survival in Auschwitz but I found it extremely affecting. Would love to read it again with you guys, so I voted for it. Not that it’s gonna win.
This will be my first readalong with my Kindle, so I just hope whatever wins is Kindle-able. The current winner is Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops, and: Kindle edition! It’s also my first readalong post-finishing my Bachelor’s degree, so I actually have time to read whatever wins. Shock and amazement.
I do highly recommend “And the Sea Will Tell”.
Bridget, with sub-subtitle “and part of spring semester sophmore year for that one girl who just WOULD NOT GET IT.”
I also second the recommendation on “And the Sea Will Tell”. Bugliosi is among the very best writers of true crime tales, and the details on this one made for a riveting read.
I’m coincidentally in the middle of the Bill James right now! It is a bit different than I expected, but he’s fun with his assessments.
I’ve got my copy of Pudding Pops on pre-order!
I, too, highly recommend “And the Sea Will Tell”… although it has been many, many years. I echo the sentiment that no one writes like Bugliosi, which I discovered at age 11, when I first picked up “Helter Skelter”. (Why yes, I am fairly well adjusted. Why do you ask?).
Back to “And the Sea…”: I was fascinated then by the four pages (no kiddin’) of exposition on the Magic That is the Tide Table, but it is important to the story, and all these years later, I do remember it!
Enjoy!
Jen S–Hee. That poor girl.