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Happy belated birthday, Rafael! Hope you had a wonderful day.
The planning thread for Hefty (with some new changes) is now open. Please check it out and make your suggestions and mark your support. Thank you.
Message 2 is updated.
I finished Medea by Euripides. It was another great read. So far, I've enjoyed all the plays I've read. Ancient Greeks have had fantastic dramtists.
Anisha, your suggestion for Faust doesn't qualify for slender. Slender category is for books less than 300 pages. Please let me know between Moby-Dick and Faust, which one you suggest for Husky. I haven't set a dead line yet. But please mark your supports at your earliest convenience.
No, Lesle. We'll only read 2 heftys, one book for six months. The same with husky where we read 4 books, one for every three months and Slender where we read a book for two months.
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Hefty Suggestions: Ulysses by James Joyce I
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu III
‡Wolf Solent by John Cowper Powys I
‡An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser II
The Water Margin by Shi Nai'an I
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens II
The Arabian Nights by Anonymous IIII II
Husky Suggestions:
Gora by Rabindranath Tagore I
Nana by Émile Zola II
The Adolescent by Fyodor Dostoevsky IIII II
The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles I
The Far Country by Nevil Shute I
Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis IIII
The Doctor's Wife by Mary Elizabeth Braddon IIII
The House on the Strand by Daphne du Maurier III
The Roots of Heaven by Romain Gary
‡La Regenta by Leopoldo Alas I
‡My Uncle Napoleon by Iraj Pezeshkzad II
‡The Vienna Melody by Ernst Lothar I
The Good Companions by J.B. Priestley
Slender Suggestions:
Passing by Nella Larsen III
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
The Lost Steps by Alejo Carpentier III
The Human Comedy by William Saroyan IIII
Under the Net by Iris Murdoch IIII
Theatre by W. Somerset Maugham I
The House of Ulloa by Emilia Pardo Bazán II
The Waiting Years by Fumiko Enchi I
Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf III
The Truce by Mario Benedetti II
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley I
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison III
The Lusiads by Luís de Camões I
Dr. Wortle's School by Anthony Trollope
Hello everyone! We've come again to the planning season. For next year, I've decided to introduce a new category called "Slender". The reason is to give members who'd generally prefer short-length novels also a room within our thread. So here's how it would go: We will read 2 Heftys (over 800 pages) six-monthly, 4 Huskys (300-800 pages) three-monthly, and 6 slenders (less than 300 pages) every two months. Altogether, we'll read 12 books over the year, a good size in my opinion :)
I have prepared a list of suggestions for each category (in msg 2). You may support any from the lists or make your own suggestions. A member is allowed one suggestion for each category but can support any amount of books.
The Hefty and Husky lists include suggestions that didn't receive support last year. But from next year onwards, only those unchosen ones that received at least one support would be carried over for the following year.
Wow, Luis! 5 stars. You must have thoroughly enjoyed it.
Good luck, Anisha! I hope you'll find the book enjoyable.
Lesle wrote: "Goodreads listing:Genres: Romance Historical Fiction Historical Romance Regency Classics and Regency Romance
Wikipedia listing: The Grand Sophy is a Regency romance novel by Georgette Heyer. The ..."
Thanks, Lesle.
I'm a bit confused with Regency romance. My entry doesn't qualify for historical romance as I thought it would be. Heyer's works are set in Regency period. Does she qualify for Regency romance? If not, I can withdraw my suggestion.
Thanks, Jen, Anisha, and Luis.
I suggested mystery genre without mentioning a title. So here it is.For Mystery: The Dead Secret by Wilkie Collins
