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message 251: by Karena (new)

Karena (karenafagan) Reading Trans-Sister Radio. I read The Light in the Ruins and loved it so I'm gorging on Chris Bohjalian's other works. I also have Midwives as well as The Double Bind.


message 252: by Anil (new)

Anil (loykalina) | 79 comments I should be reading The Age of Innocence, but I am checking this page instead:

http://threepanelbookreview.tumblr.com/


message 253: by Karena (new)

Karena (karenafagan) Anil wrote: "I should be reading The Age of Innocence, but I am checking this page instead:

http://threepanelbookreview.tumblr.com/"


What a great site. Thanks for sharing, Anil!


message 254: by Anil (new)

Anil (loykalina) | 79 comments I'm glad to hear that you like it, Karena. Can't wait for more strips.:-)


message 255: by Alana (new)

Alana (alanasbooks) | 208 comments Karena wrote: "Reading Trans-Sister Radio. I read The Light in the Ruins and loved it so I'm gorging on Chris Bohjalian's other works. I also have Midwives as well as The Double Bind."

I really enjoyed Midwives, hopefully you do too!


message 256: by Karena (new)

Karena (karenafagan) Alana wrote: "Karena wrote: "Reading Trans-Sister Radio. I read The Light in the Ruins and loved it so I'm gorging on Chris Bohjalian's other works. I also have Midwives as well as The Double Bind."

I really en..."


That one's next. I'm really enjoying Trans-sister Radio.


message 257: by K. G. (new)

K. G.  Whitehurst | 29 comments I'm finishing Defoe's ROXANA; I doubt she ever truly repented, and she made some excellent points for not marrying. Also, I have just started Faulkner's THE SOUND AND THE FURY. I've finished the Benjy section--tough work because of the jumpiness of Benjy's limited abilities to comprehend/narrate.


message 258: by Lohengrin (new)

Lohengrin | 23 comments Karena wrote: "Anil wrote: "I should be reading The Age of Innocence, but I am checking this page instead:

http://threepanelbookreview.tumblr.com/"

What a great site. Thanks for sharing, Anil!"


Agreed, thanks!


message 259: by Faye (new)

Faye I'm currently reading Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose, and Sofia Tolstaya's autobiography My Life, both of which I'm really enjoying. I also have a bookmark in Richardson's Pamela. Or, Virtue Rewarded, but the characters are annoying me so much that I can only handle reading it in small doses.


message 260: by Karena (new)

Karena (karenafagan) Alana wrote: "Karena wrote: "Reading Trans-Sister Radio. I read The Light in the Ruins and loved it so I'm gorging on Chris Bohjalian's other works. I also have Midwives as well as The Double Bind."

I really en..."


I just finished Midwives! You were right. It was really great! I just put more of his books on hold at the library! They are so great!


message 261: by Alana (new)

Alana (alanasbooks) | 208 comments Glad you liked it!


message 262: by Diana S (new)

Diana S I currently reading Animal Farm. It's been years since I've read this book. I loved it before and I'm loving it again! :)


message 263: by LaLaLa Laura (new)

LaLaLa Laura  (laurabhoffman) Diana S wrote: "I currently reading Animal Farm. It's been years since I've read this book. I loved it before and I'm loving it again! :)"

I read that a long time ago myself. I should give it a re read one of these days.


message 264: by Andrew✌️ (new)

Andrew✌️ (andrew619) | 183 comments I started today The Devil's Star. It's the first book I read by Jo Nesbø, and particularly the first of the series of Harry Hole. Till now I like it.


message 265: by philosophie (new)

philosophie hello!i'm sophie and i've just joined the group! :) i'm currently reading freud's Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality and struggling with thackeray's Vanity Fair.


message 266: by LaLaLa Laura (new)

LaLaLa Laura  (laurabhoffman) nice! quite a mix, Sophie! :D


message 267: by Anil (new)

Anil (loykalina) | 79 comments I am about to finish reading Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy. (Only 87 pages to go) I'll start Howard's End by E. M. Forster after finishing Hardy's novel.


message 268: by Andrew✌️ (new)

Andrew✌️ (andrew619) | 183 comments I these days I've finished The Devil's Star, I read Wings and started Tau Zero


message 269: by Anil (new)

Anil (loykalina) | 79 comments I'm reading Little Women by Louisa Mat Alcott and Howards End by E. M. Forster. The latter one made me cry for the very first time. I'd been able to prevent myself crying before, but the depiction of Mrs. Wilcox reminded me of my mother's who passed away in January this year. I couldn't continue reading after I stopped crying. I'll give it a try now.


message 270: by Andrew✌️ (last edited Aug 19, 2013 09:25AM) (new)

Andrew✌️ (andrew619) | 183 comments I finished today Tau Zero, a good sci-fi novel in the style of the seventies. I also started The Great Gatsby


message 271: by Colleen (new)

Colleen Just finished The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo. Now reading Wonder by R.J. Palacio.


message 272: by K. G. (new)

K. G.  Whitehurst | 29 comments I've finished ROXANA, ARISTOCRATIC VICE, and THE SOUND AND THE FURY. Now, I'm going to finish Azimov's ROBOT STORIES and Keyes's second PsyCorps novel. Maybe I'll get to Jo Nesbo's THE BAT.


message 273: by Jurgen (new)

Jurgen (jmctimmermans) | 20 comments Just finished So Little Done: The Testament of a Serial Killer by Theodore Dalrymple. Now I'm reading To the Wedding by John Berger.


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message 276: by Andrew✌️ (new)

Andrew✌️ (andrew619) | 183 comments I Finished The Great Gatsby and started I re di sabbia, a collection of George R. R. Martin's novels


message 277: by Karena (new)

Karena (karenafagan) I just got home from a weekend trip to DC where I got very little reading done, but a lot of exploring (including the Library of Congress!).

I am reading our very own Ali Dent's The LitClub as well as The Law of Similars and An Artist of the Floating World.


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message 279: by Erika (new)

Erika (erikarae) I just finished Fahrenheit 451 and The Alchemist and now I'm getting into Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess which is amazing so far.


message 280: by Marie-pier (new)

Marie-pier I am reading "The Big Nowhere" from James Ellroy, I finished the Black Dahlia yesterday and needed another fix!


message 281: by philosophie (new)

philosophie i just finished A Single Man by christopher isherwood and now i'm starting The Bat by jo nesbo.


message 282: by Travis (new)

Travis (travistousant) 1/4 through War and Peace sorry but just don't dig Tolstoy as well as Dostoyevsky


message 283: by K. G. (new)

K. G.  Whitehurst | 29 comments Instead of Nesbo, Asimov, and Keyes, I went on a Ben Aaronovitch tear, devouring two of his books, RIVERS OF LONDON and MOON OVER SOHO, in five days. Now, I'm back to classics, reading currently BRIGHTON ROCK by Graham Greene and THE LADIES' PARADISE by Emile Zola.


message 284: by Pam (new)

Pam Finished FAHRANHEIT 451. It was good. Now reading A CENTURY OF WISDOM about Alice Herz-Sommer's life in a German prison camp and her life after the war. She is 109. Interesting book. Learning a lot about what the Czech people, Jewish and others suffered during the war and after.


message 285: by Anil (new)

Anil (loykalina) | 79 comments I am reading Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad and Kim by Rudyard Kipling.


message 286: by Andrew✌️ (new)

Andrew✌️ (andrew619) | 183 comments I'm reading The Eyes of the Dragon. It's not an horror, but it's so much that I wanted to read


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message 288: by Faye (new)

Faye I've just started East of Eden, and I'm really enjoying it so far.


message 289: by Amanda (new)

Amanda (daughterofoak) I'm listening to the audiobook version of Les Misérables by Victor Hugo.


message 290: by Andrew✌️ (last edited Sep 04, 2013 11:48AM) (new)

Andrew✌️ (andrew619) | 183 comments A couple of days ago I've started Lord of the Flies, for a reading group.


message 291: by Travis (new)

Travis (travistousant) Amanda wrote: "I'm listening to the audiobook version of Les Misérables by Victor Hugo."

George Guidall? His is excellent.


message 292: by Amanda (new)

Amanda (daughterofoak) The version I'm listening to is narrated by David Case. I am really loving it so far. I've been listening to it all day while I've been making batches of jam and I'm about 70% done. For such a long book it is going by very fast.
It is definitely going on my favorites shelf.


message 293: by Travis (new)

Travis (travistousant) Led Mid has one of the most moving endings I have ever read in my life. If you don't feel something with that ending you probably have no heart I'm my opinion. Not saying everyone needs to cry over it but should at least make you feel something.


message 294: by Jessica (new)

Jessica | 464 comments Just started Grendel.


message 295: by Travis (new)

Travis (travistousant) Jessica wrote: "Just started Grendel."

I hated that book but I wonder if it was just because it was assigned school reading. I have thought of re reading as an adult but never have


message 296: by Alana (new)

Alana (alanasbooks) | 208 comments I actually enjoyed Grendel, but I remember feeling it was just really weird, too.


message 297: by Jessica (new)

Jessica | 464 comments Jessica wrote: "Just started Grendel."

I never had to read it in school. A friend of mine leant it to me, so we shall see. The idea behind the story has always intrigued me. Hopefully I will get some kind of enjoyment out of it.


message 298: by Andrew✌️ (new)

Andrew✌️ (andrew619) | 183 comments I finshed Lord of the Flies and I started The Gunslinger, the first book of "The Dark Tower" series. I don't know if I'll read them all, but in the meantime let's start with this.


message 299: by Danaë (new)

Danaë | 89 comments While I'm waiting for The Handmaid's Tale to show up from interlibrary loan, I'm reading Lady of Devices and listening to Storm Front. Also just started The Scarlet Pimpernel for another group.


message 300: by Andrew✌️ (new)

Andrew✌️ (andrew619) | 183 comments I finished The Gunslinger and started Voyage to the Red Planet, a sci-fi novel, but with a vein of humr


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