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[Ian]

Started Justine, or the Misfortunes of Virtue
by Marquis de Sade

Pretty certain I'm not going to enjoy it, but here goes.....

[Mia]

Diane wrote: "Mia wrote: "The Cubs and Other Stories by Mario Vargas Llosa. My first Llosa, starting it easy."

Short, but not easy. I recall a serious lack of punctuation in that one."

You're remembering right and yes not that easy I see.

[Tim]

Billy Budd, Sailor

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

The Valley of Bones by Anthony Powell, part 7 of the Dance to the Music of Time

[Diane]

The Death of Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes.

[Diane]

Born in Exile by George Gissing.

[Tim]

A Room with a View by E. M. Forster

[Mia]

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller.

[George P.]

Diane wrote: "The Death of Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes."

I'm nearing the end of it. It really jumps around.

[George P.]

A few days ago I began Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe of Nigeria.

[Sean]

Last night I grabbed my copy of The Country Girls by Edna O'Brien. It's my self-imposed prerequisite to next month's read: Girl with Green Eyes (aka The Lonely Girl)

[Sean]

It's time for a long overdue re-read of The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

[Karina]

Just started London Fields by Martin Amis. He seems to have a lot of books on the list and I’m not quite sure if I agree.

[Diane]

Started Some Prefer Nettles by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki and Rickshaw Boy by Lao She.

[Mia]

Black Box by Amos Oz.

[Diane]

The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad.

[Peter]

Wild Swans: The Daughters of China by Jung Chang

[Nocturnalux]

Night and Day by Virginia Woolf. I started reading it quite a while back but for some reason never got around to actually finishing it. It had something to do with some of the characters being insufferable, I believe.

I will finish it this time around.

[Mia]

The Swarm by Frank Schätzing. This will take some time. It's really interesting book but there's so much information.

[Sean]

Moving on to Next Month's group read, Girl with Green Eyes, because my upcoming book schedule is packed with huge books.

[Diane]

The Guide by R.K. Narayan.

[George P.]

I started In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan. My first book by an American or British male in quite a while as I've been trying to diversify my reading more.

[Nocturnalux]

Luís wrote: "I think that book got something in relation to Rhys's literature. I suppose .."

In what way? I cannot say I see much of a connection apart from both works being written by a woman author.

[Amy the book-bat]

currently reading Gone with the Wind

[Nocturnalux]

Luís wrote: "Her writing schedule .. Seems too familiar to me ..
"

I don't follow but I am interested so do tell me more.

I just picked up Todas as Almas (All Souls in the list). I was planning on finishing Marías's trilogy before tackling anything else of his but this one became available at the library so I figured I'd take the plunge. It is fairly short, too so I will move on to volume two of the trilogy when I am done.

This edition has a short introduction by none other than Lobo Antunes in which he makes sure to throw under the bus Portuguese authors as a whole (he makes some caveats about upcoming writers from 'the new generation' but still) which made me chuckle.

[George P.]

Nocturnalux wrote: "Luís wrote: "Her writing schedule .. Seems too familiar to me .."

I don't follow but I am interested so do tell me more. ...."

I think Luis means that her writing style seems similar to him.

[Tim]

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

[Alice]

Pride & Prejudice. I'm an Austen virgin so I'm looking forward to this one.

[Amanda]

Alice wrote: "Pride & Prejudice. I'm an Austen virgin so I'm looking forward to this one."

Ooo, I'm jealous you're reading that for the first time! Enjoy!

The Magus by John Fowles. He is definitely a writer for writers.

[Diane]

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt.

[George P.]

Mercedes wrote: "Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder, finally."

When you've finished I recommend the video series by the BBC with Jeremy Irons if you haven't seen it. The later film of it has better cinematography but is not as good overall.

[Ellinor]

London Orbital by Iain Sinclair. This may take a while.

Also, I'm in the middle of Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and I love it.

[Mia]

I started Time of Silence by Luis Martín-Santos.

[Sean]

It's nice that my library will auto-renew a book for me if nobody puts a hold on it. Let's hope that nobody puts a hold on my newest acquisition, Joseph and His Brothers by Thomas Mann. I will undoubtedly need more than my initial allotment of 3 weeks to get through this one.

[Gemma]

I started The Blind Assassin last night, not sure what to think so far.

[Pillsonista]

Sean wrote: "It's nice that my library will auto-renew a book for me if nobody puts a hold on it. Let's hope that nobody puts a hold on my newest acquisition, Joseph and His Brothers by Thomas Mann. I will undoubtedly need more than my initial allotment of 3 weeks to get through this one."

Don't let the sheer size of it intimidate you. It's actually very readable and, more than that, it's very funny. Like so many of Mann's works, if you appreciate the irony, it's a breeze.

The Magic Mountain is possibly my favorite novel of all time, but Joseph and His Brothers is seriously underrated. I prefer it to Doktor Faustus any day.

[Sean]

Pillsonista wrote: "Don't let the sheer size of it intimidate you. It's actually very readable and, more than that, it's very funny. Like so many of Mann's works, if you appreciate the irony, it's a breeze.

The Magic Mountain is possibly my favorite novel of all time, but Joseph and His Brothers is seriously underrated. I prefer it to Doktor Faustus any day...."

Thanks! I am looking forward to it.

[Alice]

Amanda wrote: "Alice wrote: "Pride & Prejudice. I'm an Austen virgin so I'm looking forward to this one."

Ooo, I'm jealous you're reading that for the first time! Enjoy!

The Magus by John Fowles. He is definite..."

Thank you! I'm halfway through and I absolutely love it!

[Karina]

I started The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad a couple of days ago. Not sure how I feel about it just yet.

[Tim]

The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorn

[Mia]

Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac.

[Diane]

Silk by Alessandro Baricco.

[Diane]

Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham.

[George P.]

Native Son by Richard Wright.

[Nocturnalux]

The Twilight Years by Sawako Ariyoshi

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

Ovid's Metamorphoses, in the Rolfe Humphries translation

[Mekki]

The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch

[Nocturnalux]

Dusklands by J.M. Coetzee

[Diane]

Loving by Henry Green.

[Mia]

Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy.