Which LIST book did you just start? Showing 1,901-1,950 of 7,241

[Tyler]

I started Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood today.

[Kirsten]

Nicola wrote: "Kirsten *Dogs Welcome - People Tolerated" wrote: "I started A Dance to the Music of Time: 1st Movement by Anthony Powell earlier this week."

Are you going to read it as ..."

No, I'm part of that yearly project someone came up with.

[Nicola]

Stranger in a Strange Land - Wonderful start!

[Winter]

Started Hamsun today, still only on the introduction essay though. I read half of it in school, I hope I'm older and can understand it more now.

[Monica]

Luís wrote: "The Bell Jar. Pretty impressive, by now!!"
Beautiful book.
Sad and joyful at the same time.

[Monica]

Jennifer wrote: "Suffering through The Magic Mountain. Please tell me if gets better. I feel like I'm stuck in the cold with a bunch of crazy hypochondriacs."

Jennifer, it does get better. It's an amazing book. Not easy to read, I have to admit, but amazing.

[Monica]

Hello, I have started Crash by Ballard. I wish I didn't.
I think it was supposed to be a short story... somehow it turned into a novel....

[Danyellemastro]

steppenwolf! Love the premise :) should be a nice short one to tick off

[George P.]

Katherine wrote: "I started House of Leaves last week, but a well-timed spooky moment convinced me to put it on hold until my husband comes back from his weekend trip..."
That's funny Katherine. But I understand.

[George P.]

Winter wrote: "Started Hamsun today, still only on the introduction essay though. I read half of it in school, I hope I'm older and can understand it more now." You mean Hunger?

[J_BlueFlower]

Is there anything like a library book, so new that none has read it yet? Actually I was looking for Nausea by Sartre. Right next where it should have been was a completely new Saramago: Caim. So that is what I just started.

[Zeynep]

Zadie Smith's On Beauty, it's the first time I read her and she is brilliant

[[deleted user]]

Just started The Moonstone.

[Amy the book-bat]

The Hound of the Baskervilles started this morning

[Alice]

Amy "the book-bat" wrote: "The Hound of the Baskervilles started this morning"

I also just started this today!

[Rowizyx]

I'm reading Beloved... Hard book.

[Nicola]

Love in a Cold Climate - I'm about halfway through after a couple of reading sessions in the bath. It's a light and enjoyable read but not I think as entertaining as The Pursuit of Love which seems to be the general concensus.

[Edwin]

Just starting The Invention of Curried Sausage.

[George P.]

The shadow of the wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. Two doctors at the hospital where I work have seen me with it; both said that's a wonderful book.

[Nicola]

Luís wrote: Very laughing books, don't they??

Do you mean humorous? As in 'they make people laugh'? If so, yes, they are both quite funny although what one person finds funny might not be considered so by someone else.

I found the first one more amusing and I would highly recommend reading it first. If you enjoyed it then the affection you feel for the characters of the first book can be taken over into the second.

[Ellinor]

George wrote: "The shadow of the wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. Two doctors at the hospital where I work have seen me with it; both said that's a wonderful book."

It's a great book but unfortunately not on the list.

[Amanda]

American Psycho. It's funny so far. Just waiting to be traumatized.

[Ellinor]

This week I started The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati which reminds me a lot of Kafka's The Castle. I'm also currently reading The Young Man by Botho Strauß which I like a lot better than his other list book Couples, Passersby.

[Monica]

Started Jane Eyre. Looks very promising. Just what I need after Crash.

[[deleted user]]

Just started The New York Trilogy I read Moon Palace about a year ago, so I am looking forward to the trilogy.

[Liesl]

Small Island

[George P.]

George wrote: "The shadow of the wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. Two doctors at the hospital where I work have seen me with it; both said that's a wonderful book."
My bad- most of the books I've been reading are on "The List", forgot that one isn't.

[Nicola]

Miss Lonelyhearts - I'm only a few pages in and it's rather stomach churning. It's very short though so even if it's bad it will be over soon.

[Meg]

Just started Hugo's 'Les Miserables'. I try to read three longer books each year (800+ pages), so this is the first for 2016!

[Elizabeth]

Am reading On the Road

[George P.]

Starting The Sea, the Sea. This one I double-checked is on the list, and still on the 2012 edition. This is my first Iris Murdoch novel. I recently read Orlando by V Woolf so I'm getting a trend of English women writers born before 1920- perhaps I should continue it if I like this one as well as Orlando (I know Murdoch was born in Ireland but her family moved to England when she was an infant, and she grew up there).

[Nicola]

The English Patient - I haven't seen the movie and have no idea what this is about.

[Laini]

George wrote: "Starting The Sea, the Sea. This one I double-checked is on the list, and still on the 2012 edition. This is my first Iris Murdoch novel. I recently read Orlando by V Woolf..."
I really struggled through this book, hope you have better luck than I did!

[Linda]

I just started Freedom by Jonathan Franzen. I had just reread The Corrections this year and loved it, so I'm hoping to enjoy this one as well.

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Elizabeth wrote: "Am reading On the Road"

Love that book. It's very cliche for me to say, but it did change my outlook on life. I first read it when I was 14 years old. I've read it several times since then. Funny thing is, I picked up the book, because Jim Morrison read it when he was a kid and I'm a HUGE Doors fan.
This book opened me to all of Kerouac's work as well as the other Beats.

I'll shush now. lol

[Dianna]

Linda wrote: "I just started Freedom by Jonathan Franzen. I had just reread The Corrections this year and loved it, so I'm hoping to enjoy this one as well."

I liked The Corrections :)
I just started and gave up on The Swimming Pool Library. I hope it is one of the books that got taken off the original list...I think I will go check. I'm not into gay male word porn with bdsm...

[Dree]

Just started Joseph Andrews / Shamela. Joseph Andrews is on the list, Shamela is not--but since I read list book Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded last year, I read it. It was funny, a great companion to Pamela. Also, it's short.

[Nicola]

Dianna wrote: I just started and gave up on The Swimming Pool Library. I hope it is one of the books that got taken off the original list......."

Nope, still there :-)

[Rowizyx]

I'm reading Chaka :)

[Nicola]

Stranger in a Strange Land - somehow I've never encountered Heinlein before.

[Nicola]

Pale Fire - This was another of my 'sight unseen' reads so I've been a bit startled to realise that it's a poem. Or sort of.

[Dee]

Reading The Black Dahlia. Don't usually read much crime fiction so looking forward to this.

[Nicola]

David wrote: "Reading The Black Dahlia. Don't usually read much crime fiction so looking forward to this."

This has just popped up on my library available to check out notification so I'll be joining you! I'm a bit curious about it, it looks rather unusual. Like you I'm quite lookign forward to it.

[Jennifer W]

I recently started Fingersmith, so far, it's really good.

[Bam cooks the books]

The Heart of the Matter

[Dianna]

Jennifer W wrote: "I recently started Fingersmith, so far, it's really good."

I thought it was interesting. I listened to it on cd.

[Jamie]

I've just started The Autumn of the Patriarch and so far am loving it. A bit challenging to read (the sentences are even longer than Proust's) but I'm finding myself swept along by the lack of stops.

[Dianna]

Dead Souls by Gogol It is funny!

[Bam cooks the books]

To Have and Have Not

[Bam cooks the books]

Nausea