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Which LIST book did you just start?
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Colleen wrote: "Crome Yellow"My favorite by Huxley, so far.
Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson.
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Catch-22. It's has very funny moments, filled with dark humor and sarcasm. I like it very much, so far.
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
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Nike wrote: "I've just started Frankenstein: The 1818 Text by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley."Oh I love Frankenstein. Once I learned about how/why it was written, I fell in love and just to stop buying multiple copies of it!
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Great book, but it's not on the list.
George P. wrote: "Starting Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto, which will be my 100th list book by a woman author. I believe there are 285 books (entries) by women authors on the Boxall list."That's a great goal! I hope to reach 100 list books by women authors later this year. 17 to go, so wish me luck.
EJ wrote: "Nike wrote: "I've just started Frankenstein: The 1818 Text by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley."Oh I love Frankenstein. Once I learned about how/why it was written, I fe..."
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One of my favorites.
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I read Autumn last week (not on list)."
I really enjoyed Ali Smith's Seasonal series. You have to read (or listen) to all of them because there are clues in each novel and sometimes those clues sneak up on you! I listened to the audiobooks and found them quite entertaining.
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I read Autumn last week (not on list)."
I really enjoyed Ali Smith's Seasonal series. You have to read (or listen) to all of them because there are clues in each novel and sometimes those clues sneak up on you! I listened to the audiobooks and found them quite entertaining.."
Great info. Thank you
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Did you know Undset was the third woman to receive the Nobel in literature (after Selma Lagerlof and Grazia Deledda)?
George P. wrote: "I started The Cross, which is the 3rd part of the Kristin Lavransdatter trilogy by Sigrid Undset."I'm just finishing the trilogy. Did you read the first two books? I'm not sure the point of The Cross will be very clear without the background of Kristin's youth and marriage in the earlier books.
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I'm just finishing the trilogy. Did you read the first two books? I'm not sure the point of The Cross will be very clear without the background .."
Yes I've read the first two books. I finished The Wreath last September and The Wife in March. You have to read all three to "check it off" anyway. I rated The Wreath at 3.5 stars and The Wife at 4 stars.
George P. wrote: "Did you know Undset was the third woman to receive the Nobel in literature (after Selma Lagerlof and Grazia Deledda)?"Early Nobel prizes slanted toward Scandinavia, a lot, so it does not, at all, surprise me. It does not mean all were Scandinavian, of course, but if you cast as much as a cursory glance at the early literature laurates, you'll find that quite a few hail from there.
Which, given the prize's origin, is not exactly surprising.
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At the Mountains of Madness -ebook
The Master and Margarita-audio book"
Two of my favorites! I was unsure about The Master and Margarita at first, but by the end loved it.
There is an excellent graphic novel -- At the Mountains of Madness:A Graphic Novel by I.N.J. Culbard