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[Diane]

Started The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz.

[Diane]

Mercedes wrote: "Obabakoak

I bought this book on my first trip to the Basque provinces, in Bilbao, almost 27 years ago. It's time has come!"

It's a great book. You may regret not having read it sooner!

[Diane]

Started Moscow to the End of the Line by Venedikt Erofeev (aka Moscow Stations).

[Mia]

What Maisie Knew by Henry James and Les Enfants Terribles by Jean Cocteau.

[Diane]

Summer in Baden-Baden by Leonid Tsypkin.

[Diane]

Started A Lear of the Steppes by Ivan Turgenev.

[Sarah]

Mia wrote: "What Maisie Knew by Henry James.”

I really enjoyed this!

[Sarah]

Started In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower by Marcel Proust.

[Peter]

A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines.

[George P.]

Mercedes wrote: "Peter wrote: "A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines."

That is such a raw, gut wrenching tale... there's a film too, which is also intense."

The film title is Kes , from 1969, a good film. Directed by Ken Loach, English.

[George P.]

Started The River Between by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o of Kenya. A short one.

[Diane]

Started The Green Hat by Michael Arlen.

[Alice]

Listening to Uncle Silas while driving to and from work

[George P.]

Diane wrote: "Started The Green Hat by Michael Arlen."

His books seem pretty obscure these days, but I was surprised to see that the Univ of Utah library has 8 of them including The Green Hat (2 copies).

[Diane]

Started Forest Of The Hanged by Liviu Rebreanu.

[Peter]

The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster.

[Tim]

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

[Diane]

In the Heart of the Seas by S.Y. Agnon.

[Mia]

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. My first Atwood and I'm liking it already.

[Tatiana]

Selma Lagerlof Gösta Berling's Saga

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

Luís wrote: "Mercedes wrote: "Luís wrote: "Perfume: The Story of a Murderer"

I love Suskind!"

Apparently, this is a sactisfactory reading .."

Great movie also.

[Diane]

Started Celestial Harmonies by Péter Esterházy and Slow Man by J.M. Coetzee.

[Benjamin]

Nadja by André Breton. Really eager to feast on this one.

[Mia]

The Awakening by Kate Chopin.

[Peter]

All Souls' Day by Cees Nooteboom.

[Diane]

The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andrić.

[Tim]

The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia y Marquez

[Tim]

The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

[Tatiana]

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

[Tanya]

@Tatiana I loved The Goldfinch. Does anyone know what September's book will be?

[Mia]

Tanya wrote: "@Tatiana I loved The Goldfinch. Does anyone know what September's book will be?"

Notes from Underground by Dostoevsky.

[Alice]

The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima

[Diane]

Started The Day of the Dolphin by Robert Merle.

[Mia]

I started The Turn of the Screw by Henry James and The Call of the Wild by Jack London.

[Tim]

Antic Hay by Aldous Huxley

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett

[Michelle]

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson

[George P.]

Mercedes wrote: "The Talented Mr. Ripley"

I just watched a new Spanish film by Pedro Almodovar ("Julieta") in which a character says, "I started to feel like a creepy character in a book by Patricia Highsmith".

[George P.]

About a week ago, Bosnian Chronicle by Andric of Bosnia, and yesterday Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga of Zimbabwe.

[Peter]

A Bend in the River by V.S.Naipaul.

[Alice]

Eugenie Grandet by Balzac

[Diane]

Bonjour tristesse by Françoise Sagan.

[Karina]

Trainspotting by Irving Welsh

I have a feeling I am not going to enjoy the writing style

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole. Humor is difficult. I haven't been laughing out loud, but there's been a few humorous moments.

[Michelle]

Just started Aaron's Rod

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

Mercedes wrote: "Perhaps you will be able to enlighten me..."

I like it better than The Moviegoer, which I just couldn't hardly get into at all. But I don't think it's a New Orleans thing. I think it's just that I don't think Ignatius' character is funny. The thing that's keeping me reading is that I think a lot of his other characters are interesting/humorous.

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

Mercedes wrote: "Zeno's Conscience"

That's one that I thought I was going to absolutely love, but I just never could get invested in it. It may be that I need to read it again someday

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

There is a rather obscure Italian writer from the 60s named Giuseppe Berto who I stumbled across purely by accident. In English, the book of his that I read is Incubus, but it might be really hard to find. In Italian it's Il male oscuro. When I was reading Zeno, I was reminded very much of Berto's book, though Berto's is one of my all-time favorites. He reminds me of a cross between Woody Allen and Thomas Bernhard. YMMV

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

You're welcome!