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[Sarah]

Tim wrote: "Started, Gargantua and Pantagruel, by Francois Rabelais"

I’m curious to hear how you like it. I hope it’s a good read!

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

[Dee]

Started reading Jane Eyre this morning. I've never read it, but loved Villette, so looking forward to it.

[Kirsten]

Jane Eyre is the best!! Also her sister Anne's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall!

[Nancy]

Sarah wrote: "Started The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky."

One of my favorites

[Nancy]

Dree wrote: "Started Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse yesterday, and already over half done."

More than just a good read...

[Jamie]

Just started A Suitable Boy, by Vikram Seth. At 1349 pages, it's gonna take a while, I think.

[Nancy]

Started One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey. Trying to avoid comparing it to the memorable movie with Jack Nicholson. Hard to get some of the visuals out of my mind while reading.

[George P.]

Jamie wrote: "Just started A Suitable Boy, by Vikram Seth. At 1349 pages, it's gonna take a while, I think."

I look at a page count like that and think "OMG". You're ambitious.

[Sarah]

Started The Monk by Matthew Lewis.

[Tyler]

Started For Whom the Bell Tolls the other day.

[Jamie]

George wrote: "Jamie wrote: "Just started A Suitable Boy, by Vikram Seth. At 1349 pages, it's gonna take a while, I think."

I look at a page count like that and think "OMG". You're ambitious."

Yeah, I checked out some more library books off the List that are short, and I have a bunch I own as well, so I'll be interspersing a few chapters of A Suitable Boy with other, faster books. A Suitable Boy is not slow or hard so far, just very fat and a workout for the arms while reading.
I am starting The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes tonight, too, and it is only 163pgs long, which will let me finish a book on the list sooner while in the other book I'm still slogging through Indian social life for another 1000+pgs. :)

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

Starting The Talented Mr. Ripley and for a goodreads group, we'll start Wieland by Charles Brockden Brown tomorrow

[Sarah]

Starting The Temptation of St. Antony by Gustave Flaubert.

[George P.]

I'm in a small group doing an around the world challenge. We need a book preferably novel by an author FROM Saudi Arabia. Anyone know a good one? I've found only Abdul Rahman Munif so far, wrote Cities of Salt, listed as a Saudi national though born and raised in Jordan.

PS: I'm starting The Sound and the Fury by Faulkner within a few days, our Nov group read.

[Sarah]

Luís wrote: "I'm reading one book by him: A Simple Heart"

I hope it's better than this. I liken it to a religious little shop of horrors. But if you like a little religious intrigue, The Monk is much better.

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

I've just started Best Ghost Stories of J.S. Le Fanu, which I didn't realize at first, but contains all the stories (save one) of In a Glass Darkly

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

I mentioned a few posts above that I had started Wieland by Charles Brockden Brown, but now I don't seem to see it on the list. I must have gotten it confused with The Guardian's list, as it is on that one.

[Peter]

Just started Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood.

[George P.]

I started Walden, an oldie. I'm putting off starting The Sound and the Fury for a few days at least.

I'll be reading Cat's Eye in about 6 months also, Peter.

[Diane]

Jamie wrote: "Just started A Suitable Boy, by Vikram Seth. At 1349 pages, it's gonna take a while, I think."

It is well worth it, though.

[Diane]

George wrote: "I'm in a small group doing an around the world challenge. We need a book preferably novel by an author FROM Saudi Arabia. Anyone know a good one? I've found only Abdul Rahman Munif so far, wrote Ci..."

I'll send you an email with some authors. There aren't any on the 1001 list.

[Diane]

Starting On The Black Hill by Bruce Chatwin.

[Kirsten]

I just started listening to Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome, as narrated by the fantastic Ian Carmichael.

Hilarious!

[Linda]

Kirsten wrote: "I just started listening to Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome, as narrated by the fantastic Ian Carmichael."

I listened to that one this past spring, although I had a different narrator I think. Yeah, that book is hilarious! :)

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro

[Jamie]

I started Philip Roth's The Plot Against America a while ago, and got a whole 4 pages read before I lost interest. So, I am restarting it today.

[Kirsten]

Linda wrote: "Kirsten wrote: "I just started listening to Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome, as narrated by the fantastic Ian Carmichael."

I listened to that one this past spring..."

Love Ian Carmichael, he played Lord Peter Wimsey in the 1980s.

[George P.]

Diane wrote: "George wrote: "I'm in a small group doing an around the world challenge. We need a book preferably novel by an author FROM Saudi Arabia. Anyone know a good one?..."

Thanks for your help Diane. I'm probably going to go with Abdo Khal's Throwing Sparks.

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

Started The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence

[Tyler]

I started Absalom, Absalom! a couple of days ago.

[Sarah]

Starting Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth.

[Jim]

Started Les Misérables by Victor Hugo (1802-85) yesterday.

[Sarah]

Started Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden.

[Sarah]

Starting Around the World in Eighty Days and Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne.

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

Starting Pride and Prejudice--last in a year-long Austen project I joined in with another group. Already, I think this is a better effort than any of her others.

[George P.]

Sarah wrote: "Starting Around the World in Eighty Days and Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne."

I liked "Journey" better of those 2 (4 stars); it has more realistic detail.

[Kirsten]

My father gave me that book for Christmas several years ago and I really enjoyed it. Of course, I am interested in history as well as that time period. It is probably very different from Roth's normal peccadilloes.

[Tim]

Just started, Under the Net, by Iris Murdoch and liking it so far.

[Sarah]

Tyler wrote: "I started Absalom, Absalom! a couple of days ago."

I can’t wait to hear your feedback. Enjoy!

[Kirsten]

Tim wrote: "Just started, Under the Net, by Iris Murdoch and liking it so far."

Liked it too!

[Diane]

Starting Fruits of the Earth by André Gide.

[Tyler]

Started A Passage to India by E.M. Forster this past weekend.

[Wendy]

Started The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. A bit slow going so far.

[Linda]

I just started A Room with a View by E.M. Forster. My first book by this author. I'm only on chapter two, but I like it already.

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

Started listening to an audio edition of My Ántonia, by Cather

[George P.]

Wendy wrote: "Started The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. A bit slow going so far."

The whole book is a bit slow going as far as plot, but it's well-written. Kind of like a Wharton in that way. I rated it 4*.

[Karina]

Just started The House in Paris by Elizabeth Bowen

[Wendy]

George wrote: "Wendy wrote: "Started The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. A bit slow going so far."

The whole book is a bit slow going as far as plot, but it's well-written. Kind of like a Wharton in tha..."

Excellent. The descriptions of the luxurious rooms really pop. :)

[Tim]

Starting, The Awakening, by Kate Chopin