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[Sean]

The second of three re-reads began yesterday. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

Mercedes wrote: "This is exactly what I'm feeling. I'm halfway through it, and I know I'm going to be rereading in the future.
.."

I feel like the premise is enormously clever, and I was really looking forward to reading it. But after the first canto and notes, I'm kind of ambivalent. But that could change as I move on.

[Jennifer W]

After a lengthy hiatus from the list (and most reading in general), I'm about 100 pages into Corelli's Mandolin and enjoying it.

I also would like to start Alias Grace, but I don't know if I can do 2 books at once. I've started it before and really liked what I read, but I always run out of time before it's due back at the library.

[Tim]

Black Dogs by Ian McEwan

[Diane]

Petals of Blood by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o and Drop City by T. Coraghessan Boyle.

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

Cphe wrote: "She has been a real find for me..."

A little bit depressing though, no? I hope you are reading something a little lighter in between

[Mia]

I started The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens.

[Diane]

Under Fire by Henri Barbusse.

[Sarah]

Started Nana by Émile Zola.

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

I thought that Wide Sargasso Sea was affecting and very powerful. It's a book that lingers, I think. The Bell Jar did not have nearly the same effect on me, though these things probably have to do with how they resonate with each reader's personality, rather than any objective measure.

[George P.]

In recognition of the 200th anniversary of the 1819 birth of Mary Ann Evans, who became George Eliot, I've just started Silas Marner.
The Kindle is free but I'm reading by library audiobook.

[George P.]

Cphe wrote: "Good Morning, Midnight - love this author."

I read it last year- very good.

[Diane]

Starting The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James.

[Tim]

The Sea by John Banville

[Sean]

I am forcing my neighborhood book club to read Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier.

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene

[George P.]

Bryan wrote: "The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene"

A good one. About 25 years ago I read a lot of Greene's books. I'm going to try to fit in another one by the end of this year (The Quiet American).

[Pamela]

The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West

[Sean]

Cphe wrote: "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie"

Let us know how you like that one. I will be starting another of her LIST books in the next few days for the monthly read: The Girls of Slender Means

[Benjamin]

Started Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata.

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

Started A Buyer's Market, the second novel in Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time

[Tyler]

Started The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende today.

[Diane]

Started Pricksongs and Descants by Robert Coover.

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

I started that one a while ago, but didn't make much headway. It seemed kind of silly to me, but maybe it just didn't connect. I tried another Coover later, and didn't really care for that one either, so he may just not be an author for me.

[Diane]

Bryan wrote: "I started that one a while ago, but didn't make much headway. It seemed kind of silly to me, but maybe it just didn't connect. I tried another Coover later, and didn't really care for that one eith..."

It wasn't really my thing, either.

[Diane]

The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst.

[Mia]

The Successor by Ismail Kadare.

[Peter]

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

[Alex]

Hello !

I started "The Magus" by John Fowles

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel

[Sarah]

George wrote: "In recognition of the 200th anniversary of the 1819 birth of Mary Ann Evans, who became George Eliot, I've just started Silas Marner.."

Great selection. I really enjoyed it. 😊

[Sarah]

Started The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene.

[BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...)]

I started yesterday evening in De gouden ezel : metamorfosen (The Golden Ass) by Apuleius.

[Tim]

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

The Readerby Bernhard Schlink. I didn't get to it in time for the group monthly read, but I'm only a couple of months off.

[Mia]

I started Guermantesin tie 2 by Marcel Proust. Sixth book from "In Search of Lost Time"

[Sean]

Group read time. Picked up The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark.

[Tyler]

I started listening to Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez and reading Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert this week.

[Sarah]

Started La Reine Margot by Alexandre Dumas.

[Diane]

Started The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante.

[Sean]

I just started the last of my high-school-revisit-trifecta with A Tale of Two Cities.

[Tim]

Howard's End by E. M. Forster

[{cindy}]

Michael Cunningham's A Home at the End of the World. Read The Hours this month, and absolutely loved it, so I immediately ordered more of his books

[Sarah]

Started The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James.

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

The Club Dumas by Arturo Pérez-Reverte

I didn't realize until about 50 pages in that this was the source material adapted by Roman Polanski as The Ninth Gate with Johnny Depp. I'd seen it several years ago--I thought it was kind of silly. Don't know if I'd have started this if I'd known.

[Alice]

Claudine's House by Colette

[Dana]

To have a Giant Read crossed off the list is one of my 2019 goals. I'm currently only seven chapters into the unabridged version of The Count of Monte Cristo.

I'm not really big on "revenge stories," and this read feels ambitious, but the dialogue is actually as hilarious as most reviews have said, and I'm enjoying it more than I thought I would. :)

[Sarah]

Started Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott by Sinclair Lewis.

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

Started The Acceptance World by Anthony Powell--book 3 in his Dance to the Music of Time series

[Sean]

Dana wrote: "To have a Giant Read crossed off the list is one of my 2019 goals. I'm currently only seven chapters into the unabridged version of The Count of Monte Cristo.[bookcover:The Count of Monte Cristo|54..."

Top of my list. Love that book. But yes it's a daunting task to undertake. I hope you love it in the end.