The Seasonal Reading Challenge discussion

5.2 - The Book Flood Cometh

Iceland looks forward to Jólabókaflóð which translated means “The Book Flood of Christmas” the common practice of giving and receiving books as Christmas gifts. Read a book FIRST published in October, November or December of any year.

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Would this book be acceptable?

Vacas, cerdos, guerras y brujas: los enigmas de la cultura

My edition is from January, 1987 but the original publication (in English) is from December, 1974.

That looks like it works, OK.

Dlmrose wrote: "That looks like it works, OK."
Thank you! :)

Handmaid's Tale was published in 1985. I have done tons of research to find out when specifically and I have only been able to find this article with specific details.

https://lithub.com/margaret-atwood-on...

Specifically this paragraph:
From September 12, 1984 to June 1985 all is blank in my journal—there is nothing at all set down, not even a puffball—though by my page-count entries it seems I was writing at white-hot speed. On June 10 there is a cryptic entry: “Finished editing Handmaid’s Tale last week.” The page proofs had been read by August 19. The book appeared in Canada in the fall of 1985 to baffled and some times anxious reviews—Could it happen here?—but there is no journal commentary on these by me. On November 16 I find another writerly whine: “I feel sucked hollow.” To which I added: “But functional.”

What do you think?

Aimee wrote: "Handmaid's Tale was published in 1985. I have done tons of research to find out when specifically and I have only been able to find this article with specific details.

https://lithub.com/margaret-..."

That's still pretty vague, you would need to find a date.

For an anthology of previously-published stories, is the date of the anthology acceptable regardless of prior publication dates?
A Treasury of African American Christmas Stories was published October 2018.

Julia wrote: "For an anthology of previously-published stories, is the date of the anthology acceptable regardless of prior publication dates?
A Treasury of African American Christmas Stories was..."

The date the anthology was first published should be used.
As A Treasury of African-American Christmas Stories was first published in October 1997 it works