Sean’s Comments (group member since Jan 30, 2019)

Sean’s comments from the Boxall's 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die group.

The Waves by Virginia Woolf

Night Boat to Tangier by Kevin Barry. Deliciously dark. Could be a study in dark imagery

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N - Ntoni Malavoglia - The House by the Medlar Tree - 3/10/22

Night Boat to Tangier by Kevin Barry

The House by the Medlar Tree by Giovanni Verga.

Oh, the family drama! :p

The House by the Medlar Tree by Giovanni Verga

Rosemary wrote: "So I was left wondering how Konrad felt at the end of the night. Relieved that he barely had to speak? Disappointed that his revelations were unnecessary? Was it even Henrik he had come to see?..."

Wonderful points and questions. Definitely some things to think about.

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway. As I was reading I was very ho hum about this book, but after I was finished and I thought about it as a whole I rather liked it.

Update

M - Michael Campbell - The Sun Also Rises - 3/5/22

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A - Axel - Journey to the Center of the Earth - 3/4/22

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

Journey to the Center of the Earth by Journey to the Center of the Earth. I seem to be making 2022 the year of the adventure. This one was entertaining, and highly unbelievable. But in an entertaining way.

Kathleen wrote: "The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Did they really remove it from the list? Do you still count it here for challenges?

It's a monster, but in the end it comp..."

It's a monster. But it's a good one!

Yes it still counts for the challenges. Almost always (unless we are talking about books added, removed, changes from edition to edition) when we talk about the LIST we are talking about the combined list. 1318 books.

Food plays a recurring theme in The Daughter. Either food or lack of food. If they are not eating food or talking about food, they are thinking about food. Even befriending food.

Update

R - Rarau - The Daughter - 3/2/22

The Daughter by Pavlos Matesis.

Strangely organized and written with a conversational tone that is very odd too. It was ok.

Dina wrote: "By the Open Sea by August Strindberg"

Me too... Just now

Hello Lnaposa and hello James. Nice to meet you both. Hopefully you will find some good recommendations here in our little group. Hopefully they will be "new to you" because the nature of our list doesn't really help to get out new releases... We hope for an updated list every 2-8 years... :p

Welcome Eratta. We have several threads for discussing what we are reading. I hope to see your input there. Please feel free to join in.

Volume Two discussion now open.