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[Diane]

The Ravishing of Lol Stein by Marguerite Duras.

[Peter]

The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor.

[Karen]

Mercedes wrote: "Karen wrote: "Mercedes wrote: "My husband and I are reading The Name of the Rose out loud."

I love The Name of the Rose. I hope your edition includes Eco's Postscript ..."

No, that is the last chapter of the story. In my edition the Postscript was right after that.

[Karen]

Mercedes wrote: "Karen wrote: "Mercedes wrote: "Karen wrote: "Mercedes wrote: "My husband and I are reading The Name of the Rose out loud."

I love The Name of the Rose. I hope your edi..."

It looks like he also published the Postscript as a separate book.

[Mia]

Mercedes wrote: "Mia wrote: "I started Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. Excited about this one."

I never think of reading Dickens in the summertime. He appeals to me when the weather i..."

Thank you, I definitely will. He's one of my absolute favorite.

[Diane]

Virgin Soil by Ivan Turgenev.

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

Started Casanova's Chinese Restaurant by Anthony Powell, the 5th 'movement' in his Dance to the Music of Time series

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

Mercedes wrote: "Bryan "Blackadder" wrote: "Started Casanova's Chinese Restaurant by Anthony Powell, the 5th 'movement' in his Dance to the Music of Time series"

Blackadder!"


I need to take that down--it was kind of a joke. I'm reading Possession by Byatt with another group, and I said that I thought the character Blackadder's name sounded kind of melodramatic, and everyone started telling me how popular that name is so I stuck it on my avatar.

[Diane]

Luís wrote: "Diane wrote: "Virgin Soil by Ivan Turgenev."

One of my fav's!"

I love Turgenev.

[Diane]

Started Exercises in Style by Raymond Queneau.

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

Started The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner. This is probably the most-well known modern classic that I haven't read yet. I'm not sure what will take its spot when I finish--maybe Gravity's Rainbow

Also started a re-read of Don Quixote with the Western Canon group. I don't know if I'll read the entire thing or just dip in--it's a commitment, but I did enjoy the beginning, so I may find it just as profitable to re-read this as to read for the first time most anything else.

I'd picked up a four-volume set of Spanish paperbacks of DQ some time ago, for when I'd become proficient enough--I looked at them a little while ago, but I'm certainly not there yet. When I get home and can look at them again, I might try some side by side reading.

[Tyler]

Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin

[Diane]

Soldiers of Salamis by Javier Cercas.

[Karina]

Started Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood

[Diane]

A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing by Eimear McBride.

[Diane]

Amateurs by Donald Barthelme.

[Diane]

L'Abbé C by Georges Bataille. I have very low expectations for this after my experience reading Story of the Eye.

[Diane]

Blindness by Henry Green. This is my first of his many list books. I am starting with his debut work.

[Diane]

Alamut by Vladimir Bartol.

[Karen]

Diane wrote: "L'Abbé C by Georges Bataille. I have very low expectations for this after my experience reading Story of the Eye."

LOL -- Not my favorite author!

[Peter]

The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai

[Tim]

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

[Diane]

Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson.

[Amanda]

The French Lieutenant's Woman.

[Storm]

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

[Mia]

I started Half of Man Is Woman by Zhang Xianliang.

[Alice]

The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

and Main Street by Sinclair Lewis

[Peter]

She by H. Rider Haggard

[Jennifer W]

This weekend I picked up Summer. Thought it was appropriate...

So far, so good.

[Sean]

I started Dracula this weekend.

[Tim]

The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene

[George P.]

I'm working on Quo Vadis, Dom Casmurro and Group Portrait with Lady, and I'm going to pick up Pale Fire from the library today and start it. These are in all editions of the List with the exception of Dom Casmurro, added in '12.
I'm 3/4 through Quo Vadis- pretty good but I think it should have been edited down some (but I usually think that of long books).

[George P.]

Mercedes wrote: ".... about a third into Suite Française; last night I realized that reading about WWII atrocities just before turning in for the night was affecting my rest. I'll adjust my reading schedule accordingly. ..."

I've learned to limit my reading of books with war and genocide to a few per year or I get a cumulative stress from them. I recently read The Caine Mutiny (not a list book but a Pulitzer winner) and it was pretty low-violence for a WW2 book. Quo Vadis, set in Imperial Rome, has some genocide against the Christians in the later part.

[George P.]

Diane wrote: "Alamut by Vladimir Bartol."

Alamut is on my schedule for later this year- glad to see you liked it; you're the 1st of my GR friends to read it.

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

I really liked Group Portrait with Lady. It's still the only Böll I've read, except for some short stories, but I've got some others on my shelf I keep promising to get to.

[Mia]

Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler.

[Sean]

Mercedes wrote: "I'm starting the Claudine series which includes whichever book (Claudine at home?) is on the list. So, Claudine à l'école it is."

Claudine's House is the one on the list. I am not sure for sure, but according to Goodreads, It's not part of the same series you are reading. But obviously it's related with the Colette's most popular character.

BTW, I loved the Colette movie that came out last year.

[Sean]

Mercedes wrote: "Sean wrote: "Mercedes wrote: "I'm starting the Claudine series which includes whichever book (Claudine at home?) is on the list. So, Claudine à l'école it is."

[book:Claudine's House|..."

I think you should do the whole series anyway. Because of the film, I wanted to put them on my list also. But as of yet, I have not.

I will see if I can find that earlier show. Sounds interesting.

[Sean]

I just started Don Quixote. I will be well occupied for a while.

[Karen]

Mercedes wrote: "Article on Moby Dick.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/201..."

Very interesting article! Thanks for sharing.

[Mia]

Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin. Really liking it so far.

[Sean]

Mercedes wrote: "So many movies, so little time ..."

So many books to read no time for all the movies I want to see.

[Sean]

my copy of Quo Vadis arrived at the library today. Starting that this weekend also.

[Tyler]

I started a Naguib Mahfouz compilation that includes Midaq Alley and Miramar.

[S.L.]

Oliver Twist

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I started reading:


Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett

[Peter]

A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry

[Karina]

Started In the Heart of the Country by J.M. Coetzee

[Meg]

I started 'Tropic of Capricorn' by Henry Miller a couple of days ago. So far, this is the worst book I've read from the List (or off it) by a long way. Why is this apparently considered one of the top 1001 books of all time?!

[Mia]

Emma by Jane Austen.