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[Eva]

I just started Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

[Sarah]

Started A Room with a View by E.M. Forster.

[Tyler]

Started The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides on audio today.

[Diane]

Started Bosnian Chronicle by Ivo Andrić a couple of days ago.

[Sarah]

Bryan wrote: "Le Père Goriot by Balzac. Started this one a year or so ago but never finished for some reason. Starting over"

Loved this. I read it many years ago. My love affair with Balzac was sealed. Enjoy! :-)

[Sarah]

Luís wrote: "Middlemarch by George Eliot"

Great choice. I really enjoyed it and this is my favorite by her. :-)

[Ellinor]

I'm a 100 pages into The Moonstone and I also just started reading Carry Me Down.

[Diane]

Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd

[George P.]

Only a third of the way into Broken April, but have also begun Hallucinating Foucault by Patricia Duncker (of England) which I was able to get on interlibrary loan.

[George P.]

Diane wrote: "Started Bosnian Chronicle by Ivo Andrić a couple of days ago."

Surprised you're not reading his The Bridge on the Drina first. Maybe a matter of availability.

[Diane]

George wrote: "Surprised you're not reading his The Bridge on the Drina first. Maybe a matter of availability. "

It is. I felt better about it when I learned that the stories really aren't all that connected.

[Sarah]

Starting A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov.

[Diane]

Sarah wrote: "Starting A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov."

Love that book!

[Tim]

Just started, Moby Dick

[Sarah]

Diane wrote: "Love that book!"

I can see why. He's hilarious! In an observant kind of way of course. You wouldn't want to marry him.

[Sarah]

Started Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev.

[George P.]

The group-read for Aug- Sept: Treasure Island by Stevenson (an oldie- 1883). I bought a lightly used copy with the Wyeth illustrations, which I think add a lot.

[Sarah]

Starting Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

[Ellinor]

Started Pastoralia by George Saunders

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

White Noise by Don DeLillo

I wasn't too crazy about the last DeLillo I read (I can't really even remember what it was about), but 3 chapters in and I like this one a bit better--a lot better, I think.

[Wendy]

I'm about 20 pages into If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino and I can already tell I'm going to enjoy it.

[Diane]

Started Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow and The Third Wedding by Costas Taktsis.

[George P.]

Luís wrote: "Wendy wrote: "I'm about 20 pages into If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino and I can already tell I'm going to enjoy it."

That's a very weird book, but I simply loved it!"

Which is better or should I read first, his "If on a Winter's Night...", or "Invisible Cities"? They both have very good average ratings on GR. My local libraries have both.

[Diane]

George wrote: "Which is better or should I read first, his "If on a Winter's Night...", or "Invisible Cities"? They both have very good average ratings on GR. My local libraries have both. "

They are both very good, but very different from one another. I love Invisible Cities, and it is a very quick read. If on a Winter's Night is a very unusual book - very different from anything I have read previously.

[Kirsten]

I'm just starting Nadine Gordimer's Burger's Daughter. I'm going in blind as I've not heard anything about it.

[Diane]

Hallucinating Foucault by Patricia Duncker.

[George P.]

Diane wrote: "Hallucinating Foucault by Patricia Duncker."

I'm about 2/3 through it- it's quite short, but I just read a bit every day or 2 then my other books. I've liked it thus far.

[George P.]

My 1st Cormac McCarthy:Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West by e-audiobook read by Richard Poe. His voice seems very suited to the story.

[Ellinor]

I'm in the middle of Bartleby & Co.

[Rashmi]

Emma by Jane Austen.

[Eva]

Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer - I'm not sure about this one yet. I'm hoping it gets better.

[Sarah]

Started Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy.

[Diane]

Started Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr..

[Gemma]

Just about to start A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Something nice and short to ease me back into the list!

[Ellinor]

I'm starting Fever and Spear, the first book of Your Face Tomorrow: Fever and Spear / Dance and Dream / Poison, Shadow, and Farewell

[George P.]

Emu wrote: "Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer - I'm not sure about this one yet. I'm hoping it gets better."

I read it last year, liked it 4 stars worth. It gets better as it goes on.

[Peter]

Animal Farm by George Orwell.

[Gemma]

My library reservation of 1Q84 arrived today, I am quite excited to read it. I read The Wind Up Bird Chronicle a couple of years okay and loved the kooky writing style. Planning to start it asap!

[Tim]

Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo

[Tyler]

Starting Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga.

[Sarah]

Started The Golden Ass or Metamorphoses by Apuleius.

[Tyler]

Started The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach about a week ago. I am loving it.

[Karina]

Just stared The Dispossessed by Ursula K. le Guin

[Diane]

Henry Von Ofterdingen: A Romance by Novalis

[Debbie]

Also started The Art if Fielding and really enjoying it

[Karen]

Debbie wrote: "Also started The Art if Fielding and really enjoying it"

Read this during Jury Duty last year and really enjoyed it. So glad I didn't get called!!

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

Starting Crash by J.G. Ballard. I'm a little bit skeptical that this is going to be my type of book, but I found it cheap at a Goodwill so I figured I give it a try. If I don't like it, no harm, no foul.

[Sarah]

Starting War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy.

This is my final one for him! I'm celebrating early. :-)

[Julie]

Well I've just started July's People by Nadine Gordimer. This is my first book by this author!

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

Chie de Dios wrote: "Hello to all! I just joined this group and I have question or two.

1. Is it okay if I start on the year 2008?
2. Can I skip a book? For the reasons that it's not my usually genre and/or it doesn..."

Hello--I haven't been in this group very long myself, but I haven't noticed much in the way of rules or guidelines. I think that whichever way you would like to proceed is just fine. You might take a look at some of the other conversations--one is about strategy, which might have some interesting points for you.