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[Wendy]

Started Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids by Kenzaburō Ōe (the book is listed as "Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring"). It's about a bleak wartime Japan, published when the author was just 23.

[Haizurah]

A Baby's Cry by Cathy Glass

[Wendy]

Zurah wrote: "A Baby's Cry by Cathy Glass"

I'm afraid that's not a list book.

[Linda]

I just deleted this comment that I realize I accidentally posted in the "finished" thread. So now it's here...

I just realized that The Shining is on the list and I started that today. I saw the movie many years ago, but had never read the book. I'm listening to it as my introduction to the audio book world.

[Angelique]

Linda wrote: "I just deleted this comment that I realize I accidentally posted in the "finished" thread. So now it's here...

I just realized that The Shining is on the list and I started that toda..."

If you get a chance watch the mini series that came out in 1997. It follows the book more than the movie did.

[Angelique]

Less than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis.

[Linda]

Angelique wrote: "If you get a chance watch the mini series that came out in 1997. It follows the book more than the movie did."

Thanks for the tip, I'll be sure to check it out! :)

[Angelique]

The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain.

[Wendy]

I'm starting Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin. I hear the audio version translated by Mary Hobson is fantastic, so my fingers are crossed that is true.

[Bree]

I just started The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins.

[Rowizyx]

I was forgetting I absolutely have to give back Three Trapped Tigers tomorrow to my library, so...

[Kathy]

Re-reading The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco.

[Marina]

Yesterday night I started Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth. It was so boring I fell asleep, but I hope it gets better later on. (At least it's short!)

[Wendy]

Kathy wrote: "Re-reading The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco."

ooh, I have this one on my shelf and keep meaning to read it, but I'm rather daunted by it. I guess it must be good if it deserves a re-read! :)

[Wendy]

I started Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga.

[Elizabeth]

Moon Palace Can't exactly say I just started it. Am on chapter 4 but can say so far I am enjoying it! First novel I have read by Paul Auster. Once again, clearly should have read books by yet another author years ago. Where have I been? Lost in other stacks I guess.

[Nicola]

Our Mutual Friend - Possibly the only Dickens book left unread (baring his last incomplete work). So far it's been almost unputdownable.

[Amanda]

Nicola wrote: "Our Mutual Friend - Possibly the only Dickens book left unread (baring his last incomplete work). So far it's been almost unputdownable."

Our Mutual Friend is my favourite Dickens! Unfortunate title, I think.

I'm in the middle of Jude the Obscure.

[Mia]

I just started Frankenstein by Mary Shelley.

[Tyler]

I started Lolita on audio book. Read exquisitely so far by Jeremy Irons.

[Marina]

I've just started Don Quixote.

[Kathy]

Wendy wrote:

ooh, I have this one on my shelf and keep meaning to read it, but I'm rather daunted by it. I guess it m..."

I love the political intrigue and the history in the book. I wish he used less Latin when he would quote people. Especially when he would explain what was meant in English -- that was just filler. The story is really suspenseful and worth the wordy portions. The filler is the only reason I dropped my rating to a 4.

[Wendy]

Kathy wrote: "The story is really suspenseful and worth the wordy portions. The filler is the only reason I dropped my rating to a 4. "

Ok, I think I'm bumping this one up in my list then! I could use a thick, suspenseful read, and I like to think I have patience with wordy authors!

Speaking of Wordy authors, I just started (and am half way through) Billy Budd, Sailor by Melville. Talk about tortuous Victorian prose! It's a short book, and Melville is great at writing characters and their interactions. *drama!* He just...uses entirely too convoluted prose. I've had to stop and reread entire sections multiple times before I've unknotted some of his sentences. But like I said, I have patience :)

[Mia]

And I started The Iron Heel by Jack London today. I've only read about 50 pages but I really like it already.

[Linda]

I just started The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje, by coincidence continuing my "read books that I've already seen the movie of" streak.

[Cynthia]

I've started Excellent Women by Barbara Pym. Very droll.

[J_BlueFlower]

Challenge accepted (see the Hard/difficult to read books -tread): I have started The Iron Heel

[Nicola]

The Drowned World - this should be a little bit different.

[Nicola]

The Castle of Otranto - I think I'll probably think this one was rubbish once I've finished it, but it's on the combined list so...

[Linda]

I just started Choke by Chuck Palahniuk. So far i's like a train wreck I can't look away from. Gross, shocking, funny, cringe-worthy.

[Mia]

I started The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien.

[Wendy]

Started Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee. Very uncomfortable read so far, but the pages are flipping by.

[Wendy]

Starting Breakfast at Tiffany's. Hopefully it's lighter than Disgrace was.

[Nicola]

Wendy wrote: "Starting Breakfast at Tiffany's. Hopefully it's lighter than Disgrace was."

I haven't read Disgrace but I'm fairly sure it will be. Breakfast at Tiffany's isn't exactly fluff but it's a lovely read.

[Dee]

Began The Robber Bride yesterday evening. Enjoying it so far.

[Robin]

I just started Love in the Time of Cholera. I thought it would be a difficult/long read, but it reads wonderfully and I love it so far!

[Wendy]

I'm on a roll! Starting Titus Groan. Maybe this will slow me down a bit. Fall is in the air, and I'm in a gothic mood.

[Amy the book-bat]

Started The 39 Steps this morning. Looks like a fairly short read.

[Peter]

Started The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass.

[Dree]

Two stories into after the quake by Haruki Murakami. Just what I need after Pamela!

[Nicola]

One Hundred Years of Solitude - I am not enjoying this nearly as much as Love in the Time of Cholera

[Mia]

I started Pierre and Jean by Guy de Maupassant.

[Marina]

This morning I started Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell.

[Mia]

I just started Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. I haven't read much but I'm already liking this book.

[Dree]

Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh. I have a few pages left in the intro, I hope I like it as much as the intro suggests I might.

[Meg]

Just started 'Wide Sargasso Sea' by Jean Rhys. Loved 'Jane Eyre' so hoping this lives up to its model...

[Mia]

I started reading The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle. Great little stories. And then I started The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan

[~Calyre~]

Currently reading Arcanum 17, Billy Bathgate, Neuromancer

[Amy the book-bat]

Megharp wrote: "Just started 'Wide Sargasso Sea' by Jean Rhys. Loved 'Jane Eyre' so hoping this lives up to its model..."

I liked Wide Sargasso Sea better than Jane Eyre.

[Wendy]

Just started Burmese Days by George Orwell.