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[Nocturnalux]

Clear Light of Day by Anita Desai.

[Peter]

The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster

[Sean]

Making a visit to The Hunchback of Notre-Dame.

[Diane]

The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford.

[Sean]

Mercedes wrote: "Sean wrote: "Mercedes wrote: "Doctor Zhivago

Yay! Keep a notebook with a list of the characters.... I'm sure you're acquainted with Russian novels and the multitude of names and nicknames. This novel is following suit."

I am familiar! and that's a good idea. Having the same issue with French names in Hunchback right now too.

[Sean]

It wasn't this far up on my TBR list, but with the libraries closed, I had to stick with what I have at home. So I'm giving Walden by Henry David Thoreau a go.

[Nocturnalux]

Sean wrote: "I am familiar! and that's a good idea. Having the same issue with French names in Hunchback right now too.
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I also struggle with Russian names but even worse are Chinese and Korean ones. I have actually studied Korean, never managed to be even remotely fluent, but still struggle greatly with names. At times I am able to identify men and women's names but am at a loss as to who I know which is which; more often I am unable to do this and thus am greatly at a loss.


Adam Bede by George Eliot. It wasn't in my immediate future reads but I have picked up Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire again and want to be familiar with the texts mentioned. It turns out quite a few of these happen to be list titles so it's double the fun.

[Mia]

The Trial by Franz Kafka.

[Diane]

The Heather Blazing by Colm Tóibín.

[Vikki]

Just started Mansfield Park, by Jane Austin.

[Diane]

The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy.

[George P.]

The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham. A re-read for me, I read it decades ago. It's the May book for another group, and I have a copy on hand in an anthology of six Maugham novels.

[George P.]

Sean wrote: "It wasn't this far up on my TBR list, but with the libraries closed, I had to stick with what I have at home. So I'm giving Walden by Henry David Thoreau a go."

I enjoyed it more than I expected to, hopefully you will as well.

[Mia]

A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov.

[George P.]

Mia wrote: "A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov."

Are the public libraries open there? All closed here.
I'm going to try to read Tove Jansson's The Summer Book this summer if the library will reopen.

[Diane]

Coming Up for Air by George Orwell.

[Mia]

George P. wrote: "Mia wrote: "A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov."

Are the public libraries open there? All closed here.
I'm going to try to read Tove Jansson's [book:The Summer Bo..."

No, all closed here too. I read books online right now. And I really recommend reading The Summer Book at summer! It's a great book.

[Diane]

Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

[Amanda]

The Player of Games by Iain Banks. Good, but I like his non science fiction better.

[Mia]

The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain.

[Diane]

The Swarm by Frank Schätzing.

[Sean]

Started May's group read, The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon. This is some weird stuff. All I can say is you guys picked it, not me. I voted for Solaris!

[Vikki]

I,Robot by Isaac Asimov

[Peter]

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson.

[Karina]

Started Casino Royale by Ian Fleming

[Mia]

The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach.

[Tyler]

Adam Bede by George Eliot.

[Amanda]

I'm usually one of those people who HAS to finish a book once I've started it. But a couple of the List books have defeated me. With the quarantine, it seems like a good time to revisit some old enemies.

So I am starting (restarting) The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco.

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

I thought NotR was pretty good--maybe this time it will stick with you better. Foucault's Pendulum was a lot tougher read, I thought. In fact, I put off NotR for years, expecting it to be as dense and difficult as FP was.

[Karen]

Amanda wrote: "I'm usually one of those people who HAS to finish a book once I've started it. But a couple of the List books have defeated me. With the quarantine, it seems like a good time to revisit some old en..."

I loved the The Name of the Rose. Eco says that you need to give any author at least a hundred pages to get you involved in the story. If that doesn't get you, the author has failed not you. There is a The Key to The Name of the Rose: Including Translations of All Non-English Passages which is very helpful.

[Sean]

I started A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway.

[Peter]

The Island of Dr Moreau by H.G.Wells

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Robert Maturin

[Diane]

The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham.

[Sean]

Middlemarch by George Eliot

[Diane]

Sean wrote: "Middlemarch by George Eliot"

Big one.

[Diane]

Tono-Bungay by H.G. Wells.

[Diane]

A Heart So White by Javier Marías.

[Sean]

Diane wrote: "Sean wrote: "Middlemarch by George Eliot"

Big one."

Yes! I have to get these big ones out of the way every once in a while! I have been looking at it for years.

[Peter]

Coming up for Air by George Orwell

[Stephen]

The Quest for Christa T by Christa Wolf

[Mia]

Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally.

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

The 39 Steps by John Buchan

[Diane]

The Book of Daniel by E.L. Doctorow.

[Tim]

Decline and Fall by Waugh

[Diane]

Living by Henry Green.

[Carol]

I'm starting A Dream of Red Mansions (in 3 volumes).

[Peter]

Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre

[Diane]

Party Going by Henry Green.

[Diane]

Pepita Jiménez by Juan Valera.