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Hi All-
I set up a folder here in the Books on the Nightstand Goodreads Discussion Forums as a place to create and view all of our discussions about the books we're reading for this challenge.
I think it would be great if we started a new topic within this folder for each book that's being read. I've started a topic for Moby Dick, so anyone else who is reading that can comment. If you come here and there's no topic for the book you're reading, start one! In the interests of consistency, let's just use the tile of the book as the title of the topic.
and.... discuss!
I have a group called The Proust Project for those of us attempting to read all of "In Search of Lost Time" -- about to start volume 3!
and if anyone wants me to join or lead a group on any of the books in Beowulf on the Beach (or any other, just ask), i'm happy to. just let me know. -- jack
Jack wrote: "and if anyone wants me to join or lead a group on any of the books in Beowulf on the Beach (or any other, just ask), i'm happy to. just let me know.
-- jack"
Jack, we are loving your referral of Marcel as the foremost wuss in literature.
well, i'm just glad you guys are persevering past Swann's Way, as i think the whole things gets considerably better. more power to you!
HI, is anyone else reading or have read Middlemarch? I just finished it and would love to hear someone else's thoughts on it. I put up my review on my blog at http://byhookbook.blogspot.com. Be warned though, it's not so much a reveiw as it is my thoughts and feelings on what I read. I'm moving on next to To the Lighthouse.
I'm currently attempting to finish The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco. Anyone interesting in discussing?
I just finished To The Lighthouse and was blown away. It's the third Woolf novel that I've read, and the most rewarding. But Jack--I respectfully disagree with your recommendation to skip the middle section. I thought that was one of the most haunting in the book. But, you know, that's just me. :-)
I completed the BOTB Challenge! I read four books: JANE EYRE (by Charlotte Bronte), MADAME BOVARY (by Gustave Flaubert), PERE GORIOT (by Honore de Balzac) and, GREAT EXPECTATIONS (by Charles Dickens.)My favorite was PERE GORIOT (translated by Ellen Marriage.) I was fascinated by Balzac's insights into the human heart. I'm definitely going to go on to read LOST ILLUSIONS.
The title I liked the least was MADAME BOVARY (translated by Eleanor Marx Aveling.) I may try to re-read it some time, but a different translation.
The biggest disappointment was GREAT EXPECTATIONS. Perhaps my own expectations were too great! I just didn't love it the way I had anticipated I might have after having read not only Jack Murnigham's commentary, but several reviews.
I also "applied" BOTB to WUTHERING HEIGHTS (by Emily Bronte), a book I finished right before the Challenge had begun. I also continue to look up commentaries on possible future reads. BEOWULF ON THE BEACH shaped my summer reading nicely. My only regret is that I didn't initiate or participate in any discussions on the books I did read.
Tanya wrote: I completed the BOTB Challenge! I read four books: JANE EYRE (by Charlotte Bronte), MADAME BOVARY (by Gustave Flaubert), PERE GORIOT (by Honore de Balzac) and, GREAT EXPECTATIONS (by Charles Dickens.)
Holy cow! That is impressive.
Awesome, Tanya. Being a late comer to the podcast, this group, etc.…
My library book discussion has been reading a classic each August. Two years ago we read Anna Karenina, last year it was The Count of Monte Cristo (which most of us read the unabridged version) and this year we read The Grapes of Wrath.
I just finished the book last night and I gave it five stars which I don't do lightly. I should not have been surprised how good the book was since I have never been disappointed by Steinbeck. Grapes seems timely with the country (the world) experiencing the economic and unemployment issues it is now.
